- Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon: Will return to Pardon the Interruption on Monday; Patrick McEnroe will host through the rest of the week, with J.A. Adande on Thursday and Bob Ryan on Friday. Kornheiser has not been on PTI since the last week of June.
- Michael Vick: After having his endorsement deal with Nike suspended and having Reebok and NFLShop.com discontinue sales of his jerseys, the embattled NFL quarterback is now being dropped by Rawlings and Upper Deck. The former will remove his image from “point-of-sale promotions in stores“, while the latter will not “put cards featuring … Vick in its collections in the future“.
- Paul Zeise and Larry Smith: The sports personalities, employed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and CNN, respectively, have both compared the Michael Vick dogfighting case to legal issues other athletes have had with rape charges. On a Pittsburgh-area sports show, Zeise said it was “sad” that Vick would have “been better off raping a woman“, because “he probably would have been suspended for four games and he’d be back on the field.” Smith, meanwhile, was accosted by Nancy Grace for saying “that while [the Kobe Bryant sexual assault charge] is a situation we can sort of compare this to, this really is much worse“. Zeise has been told not to return to the local sports show, while Smith faces no discipline.
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