Steve Phillips Just the Tip of a Large, Sordid ESPN Iceberg? (Updated)

October 21, 2009 By 4 Comments

If I were an ESPN exec or employee, and I read the latest post by Daulerio over at Deadspin, I’d be shaking in my boots a little right now. Excerpt after the jump.

I just emailed Daulerio to ask if they were really going to be emptying the vault of all the tips and accusations they received regarding sexual craziness at ESPN. His response: “Stay tuned…”

Will do.

My, my, my Steve Phillips. Looks like you may have directly and indirectly screwed up a whole lot of peoples’ lives.

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“However, there are many, many, many other people employed at the WWL who have (allegedly) boned assistants, interns, on-air talent, executives, etc…Chances are, at this point, there’s some truth to them…We’ll just throw ‘em out there and see how many “no comments” or, you know, actual comments or “you would be completely wrongs” there are about these situations. Consider this one giant all-day version of “Deleted Scenes” or something.”

The first well-known ESPN personality who will purportedly be “outed” for some kind of clandestine activity is revealed in the post.

Head over to Deadspin for the name…and it sounds like you may want to be tracking the Deadspin feed this afternoon.

Update: And here’s the first one. Yeah, looks like the gloves are coming off today at Deadspin. Something tells me that Ken Rosenthal would not approve.

Update: And the Deadspin-ESPN bridge burning continues. This one deals with a female marketing exec and how she purportedly slept her way to the top.

Update: Based on the Twitter reaction, Deadspin’s decision to publish these accusations and rumors may actually be making ESPN seem…sympathetic? What do you think?

Do you have any issue with Deadspin revealing these rumors/accusations regarding ESPN personnel?

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  • MidnightWriter

    What makes the Steve Phillips affair so compelling is that it is a page out of "Fatal Attraction" — minus a boiling bunny and an attempted bathtub drowning. In the film starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, a fling turns grim when the Close character stalks Douglas, phones his workplace and his wife and even take their daughter to an amusement park.

    The scarier and sadder facts about Phillips' fling, is that it's fact rather than fiction. The jilted lover not only phones Mrs. P. to tattle, but tries to contact Phillips' 16-year-old son through a social networking site. If this true life "Fatal Attraction" doesn't put the fear of God (or Wife) into office affairs, it should.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/JerodMSF JerodMSF

    GREAT point. No doubt he had no idea it would turn out like it did, but don't you have to accept it as a possibility when you enter into such actions?

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