ESPN announcer Ron Franklin was pulled from the network's Fiesta Bowl radio broadcast after calling ESPN sideline reporter Jeannine Edwards "sweetcakes," and then "a--hole," the sports site Sports by Brooks reported. Franklin and Edwards attended a production meeting before Friday's Chick-fil-a Bowl where Franklin and ESPN announcers Ed Cunningham and Ron Gilmore discussed Gilmore's wife being elected mayor of Alameda, Calif. When Edwards tried to join in, Edwards said, “Why don’t you leave this to the boys, sweetcakes,” according to the site. Edwards responded, “Don’t call me sweetcakes, I don’t like being...
- 1/3/2011
- The Wrap
For me the experience that is Soulkiss begins as soon as I walk into the venue, in this case the Triad Theatre, an upstairs cabaret just off Broadway in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Everyone is already smiling. Strangers strike up conversation in line for the bathroom as if they were family at a reunion. And for that evening, they are. The crowd at a Soulkiss concert is always multi-racial and multi-generational, reflecting the diversity of the singers themselves and their ability to create community wherever they go. The band ready, with the incomparable Ron Gilmore on keys, Soulkiss walks down aisle and takes stage with a Tim Dillinger original "You Take the Clouds Away." The crowd is with them immediately, clapping, moving, cheering. Tim is in the center with a new hair color, red this time. To his right is David...
- 2/17/2010
- by Elizabeth Cunningham
- Huffington Post
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