This is a new low from ESPN, IMO

Perfect description for you.

 

RIP, Aaron.

Sad news.

 

ESPN apologizes:

http://twitter.com/#!/Rfking/status/68779021525204992

 

You need to wait until he is at least buried before talking about his starting position.

Christ, it's May, not November.

 

Here's what it originally said

http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/05/12/alabama-lineman-aaron-douglas-found-dead-in-florida/

 

Albert Lin needs to get a reality check, while looking for his next job.

 

The lede is: "Looks like Nick Saban was prescient when he gave rising senior OL Alfred McCullough and rising junior RG Barrett Jones snaps at LT this spring."

Who in their right fucking mind writes something like that ... the same DAY a football player is found dead?
Hell, who rights something like that period?

Unbelievable. Literally. I can't believe anyone would lack enough sense and decency to hit enter on something like that.

 

You're write.

 

Wow, even Larry Kudlow thinks that was insensitive.

 

Who uses the word prescient?

 

It wasn't just the same day -- the post was up just a couple of hours after the news of his death broke.

Insensitive is putting it lightly.

 

I'm not usually one to defend ESPN, but there's no reason to impugn the entire company over this. This is the fault of two people:

1. The writer, Albert Lin, whose name will be burned into the memory of every Bama fan for all-time, I can assure you.

2. His editor, presumably Rob King, who has apologized.

Lin was at SI for like 10 years, and has been at ESPN.com for three. I can't believe he didn't know better.