OT: Gregg Doyle of Indy Star Suspended
Gregg Doyle who was hysterical in his coverage of Michigan's sign stealing scandal and didn't know that virtually all teams get signs in advance (granted not necessarily how CS did it) has been suspended.
When asking a question at an Indiana Fever press conference, he got a little too hot in his britches apparently as he sounded like a pervert when talking to WNBA rookie Caitlyn Clark. He made a heart gesture at her and told her that she'd get along fine with him if he made the heart gesture at him after games in a creepy voice.
Besides being suspended, he will not be allowed to cover the Indiana Fever anymore, probably because the players want to be taken more seriously and not harassed.
Think first, type or speak second. Yep. 👍
With all due respect - your comment may assume that he’s actually capable to think. Based on what he’s written - that assumption does not appear to be valid or accurate.
True, and if you tried to generate a Doyle column via AI it would break the system.
Well, he could have talked about "slam dunking it out of the park", he didn't, so there's that... 😉
Hell, he can't even spell his own name -- it's Doyle, moron, not Doyel.
Doyle is a giant turd
What took the Indy Star so long to do this?
The Indy Star probably afforded Doyel the type of due process he denied JJ with his stupid Heisman protest non-vote.
Hypocrite. Clown. Fraud. And most of all, mega-CREEP.
It rubs the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again.
Holy shit. I wasn’t sure what to expect but this is definitely pervier than I imagined.
Karma remains undefeated.
I do enjoy a big slice of schadenfreude with my morning coffee.
Guess he won’t have to worry about denying Michigan players his Heisman vote anymore.
I’m sure this is all Harbaugh’s fault, somehow.
Muppets???
Douchebag gets what is deserved - too rare of a headline if u ask me
Even if you could try to take the most innocuous interpretation of whatever the hell it was he was trying say, what on earth would possess you to think this would be a way to phrase it? I'm not always the most eloquent man on earth but my God, man. what were you thinking?
He needs to take a class on how to grovel to the far more important person in the interaction.
What a total lack of self awareness (in addition to what's been said from the obvious angles).
Your latter question implies that there was any actual though involved. While I like your optimism, I'm afraid that I don't share it. I suspect one of his neurons went rogue and just blurted it out without consulting the other two brain cells.
"Hey, Caitlin, wanna fuck" would've been much simpler.
Gee. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
I totally forgot that this is that same idiot. It makes it that much more enjoyable to see this dolt get what he had coming.
His assumption that Clark should care about pleasing him was the strangest part of this to me.
Couldn’t happen to a bigger asshat
posbang!
I am perfectly fine with this development. I'm surprised that anyone would employ him at all.
wop wop wop wop wop
If the IndyStar is going to punish Doyel (and I can see both sides of the argument, "yes he should be punished" and "no he shouldn't be") --- a 2-week suspension and not covering Fever games for a year isn't really much of a punishment.
He's probably on vacation as we speak, he still has his CBS gig, the Fever will still be a thing next year, and there's still plenty other sports to talk about in Indy (Pacers, Colts, Auto Racing, Purdue, IU).
Feels a bit like the Mitch Albom thing 15+ years ago. Albom absolutely should have been fired, IMO, but the paper just suspended him for a slight bit.
So you are not sure whether he should be punished at all, but you are absolutely certain that he should punished much MORE or much LESS than the punishment that he received?
I said what I said. Yes, I didn't proffer an answer to the "should Doyel be punished?" question. I said I CAN SEE both sides of the "should he be punished?" argument.
I know public discourse these days often demands folks to take an intractable and definitive position on every single topic while refusing to acknowledge the existence of the opposite opinion. I get that. But regardless of that, I'm not offering an opinion to the "should he be punished?" question.
But as for the IndyStar's wishy-washiness, yes I DO have an opinion on that. Their management is acting like an indecisive, wishy-washy "leader" with this punishment. They aren't leading, they are being a wimp.
Mitch Albom sucks
what did Albom do that was so bad? I thought he just made some stupid shit up about some people being in attendance that didn't end up being true due to a change in plans.
He completely fabricated something (hanging out with 2 former MSU players while they watched a Final Four semifinal together) that simply didn't happen.
Besides --- even if Richardson and/or Cleaves DID wind up attending the game, all the quotes Albom got from them would have been from their phone conversation a couple days prior. Albom wouldn't have been hanging out in the stands with them (as he implied) as the game occurred simulatenously.
Albom never hung out in the stands with Richardson and/or Cleaves at the 2005 Final Four, and the current Governor of the "Mount Rushmore State" never met with the leader of North Korea either. They are both bald-faced liars. And thus, IMO, unworthy of being in a high-profile position of trust.
I was hoping for something better suited for this POS. My idea was to dragg him behind the pace car at Indy to leave an actual "skid mark" on the track!
It's Doyel. As others have pointed out, he spells both his first and last name wrong.
His first name is actually Greggorry.
As in "The Adventures of Greggorry Peccary"?
That dudes been an idiot since forever…but he’s aligned with the right idiots so he gets a pass usually glad to see he’s actually being held accountable for being himself.
I suppose he'll now have more free time to polish his butt plugs.
It sucks Caitlyn Clark had to put up with this guy but if it got him suspended, that public service alone makes her statue-worthy
But who is going to write the pearl clutching column about how he should be ineligible for sportswriter of the year, now?
Surprised it took this long
What a bum. Buh bye 👋
Doyel not Doyle. Maybe caused by auto correct? No matter, Doyel is not smart.
At this point why not just fire the guy and go find a journalist who is allowed to be around women. I know, i know its a crazy notion.
Seriously. Sports writers are incredibly easy to replace.
I obviously don't like Doyel but the politically correct section is killing our country. Clark is an amazing BB talent for a girl and I don't want to sound insensitive but c'mon...I find it hard to believe anyone is thinking about anything but BB when talking to her.
I mean as soon as she talks I question her supplements.
Wow so youre trying to say she is too unattractive to take sexually harassing her seriously. You're kind of a special piece of shit now arent ya?
11W is that way, you slope-brained choad