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jlb1705;2052374; said:For someone who was trying to deflect attention/blame/guilt, Boeheim sure used the phrase "on my watch" an awful lot in that post-game presser.
Bucky32;2052934; said:Wait, there's a player at Syracuse who's last name is Melo?
That's awesome.
Jake;2053088; said:If justice is truly served I can only hope Jerry Sandusky and Bernie Fine end up sharing a cell together with 6 275 pound dudes named Bubba.
Jake;2053088; said:If justice is truly served I can only hope Jerry Sandusky and Bernie Fine end up sharing a cell together.
ESPN's Vince Doria, Senior VP & Director of News:"Had that tape surfaced in 2003, Fine would have been fired. Had we been given the tape in 2005, we would have gone straight to the authorities. Had we been given the tape on Nov. 17, there would have been no 'administrative leave'. Fine would have been fired on the spot. When the tape emerged for the first time on Nov. 27, we fired Fine. Those who held onto the tape for nearly 10 years owe everybody an explanation."
Getting a little defensive there, ESPN? You may need to be, if any other boys were victimized by Fine after 2003 when you dropped the story, without giving that tape to either the University or the Syracuse police."(Bobby Davis) made this tape recording without our involvement, we were not present when the tape was made. The tape purported to be a phone conversation between Bobby Davis and Laurie Fine, Bernie's wife. On that tape, Laurie Fine talked in disparaging terms about her husband, Bernie Fine, and as prompted by Bobby's conversations, discussed her beliefs and her suspicions that her husband had been involved in sexual episodes with young boys. It was clearly a damning tape in terms of her characterization of her husband but much of it was her thinking and beliefs. She never directly acknowledged to have witnessed any of these actions first-hand. So based on that tape which we had not generated; which we had no real knowledge of how it was made and Bobby Davis's story - which was one person with no corroboration - we felt in 2003 that the material we had did not meet the standards for reporting the story. That is consistent with how we have viewed these types of stories in the past."
Bucky32;2052934; said:Wait, there's a player at Syracuse who's last name is Melo?
That's awesome.
BB73;2053064; said:And not only can he play, he's Fab.
jlb1705;2054274; said:Every time I hear his name called on TV, I think they're saying "Fat Melo".
OH10;2055012; said:ESPN can go eat a bag of dicks for their reporting on this story. Why, if you have the audio recording, do you sit on it for 8 years? I supposed I could understand not reporting it to your viewers, but not reporting it to the police or to the university? In-fu-ck-ing-de-fens-ible.
And then they wait an additional 10 days after reporting the story on Nov. 17. What possible explanation for that?
What happened here is that ESPN got de-pantsed in the Sandusky story. Mark Schwarz remembered that he had this similar story back in 2003 and they planned to slowly drip the information out there to increase ratings (capitalizing on the popularity of the Sandusky story) and also making it appear as though they were engaging in serious investigative journalism.
Maybe ESPN should be cited for lack of institutional control.
BuckeyeNation27;2055328; said:I know there are a bunch of Cuse grads at the WWL. Any of them in a position to suppress this tape in 03?