Jemele

What is ESPN thinking? Allow me to relay the first line of Jemele Hill's latest article to the one, maybe two, possibly three people who read this:

"Whenever I tell people I live in Orlando, Fla., they usually assume Mickey Mouse and Goofy are my neighbors and everyone here walks around eating funnel cakes without shoes."

This is the first line. This is her hook. Who do you talk to Jemele, kindergartners? Tweakers? How do editors let this slide?! She has a degree right? I'm not going to go on a full-scale rant here. I could easily write 5000 words on her stunning ability to write arguments for both sides of a topic she's covering, neither convincingly. I could point out her double standards on her racial commentary. I could talk about how on cold pizza she makes me root for ESPN's Bill O'Reilly, Skip Bayless. But I'm going to save my breath.

I've tried to read her articles. I try to support what she's going for, because I think ESPN could use a savvy female sports journalist who draws on tough topics like race, inner-cities, and the culture of sports in general, but until ESPN finds a qualified journalist, they need to put these issues in the hands of someone else. They're just wasting space and losing fans. Much like those horrible commercials they now play before you can watch any highlights. Jemele illicits the same response. I take my little arrow to the upper right corner, and click the red 'X.'