Breaking News: Sean Salisbury Canned By ESPN

Gilbert posted 2/27/2008 from awfulannouncing.blogspot.com [flag]

Twelve years is a long time, and it definitely doesn't seem that long in regards to Salisbury. There is no official word on who's decision this was, but the Star Tribune is reporting that ESPN decided not to renew his contract. [link]

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ESPN Sends Salisbury Back to the Bots
Published 2/27/2008 by Unsilent Majority at Kissing Suzy Kolber
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 ESPN Sends Salisbury Back to the Bots Sean Salisbury's days at ESPN have come to an end . Tonight, the world mourns.... I'm drunk... [ Unsilent Majority ] 11:16 PM tags: announcers , ESPN , i miss making fun of this douche , i'm drunk , Unsilent Majority 0 comments: Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

You Don't Know What You've Got, 'Til It's Gone [Sean Salisbury]
Published 2/27/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
Yes. We've heard. We'll discuss tomorrow.

Wednesday Rundown: Rejoice, For ESPN Has Finally Fired Sean Salisbury
Published 2/27/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
... Sean Salisbury is no longer an employee of ESPN — after 12 years with The Worldwide Leader, he was let go by the network last night. I’m glad to hear this news…now, we won’t be subjected to another football season of those “Four Downs” segments on SportsCenter, in which Salisbury and John Clayton insult each other for 5-6 minutes (you know, because compelling television cannot be created unless those two disagree on everything). But this isn’t just a good development for ESPN viewers — indeed, it’s ...

SEAN SALISBURY GOT FIRED
Published 2/27/2008 at With Leather
... ESPN hired Cris Carter to join its team of talking meatheads/NFL "analysts," and the man who got pushed out is none other than penis-photographing, John Clayton-abusing former inept quarterback Sean Salisbury. Awful Announcing has our requisite quote: ...

ESPN sets Sean Salisbury free, replaces him with Cris Carter
Published 2/27/2008 at Shutdown Corner
... work at HBO's Inside the NFL, and also used to catch passes from Salisbury with the Vikings. I'm not terribly familiar with the work Carter did at HBO, so I couldn't tell you if he'll be better or worse than Salisbury. I can tell you that he'll be better than Emmitt Smith, though, but I still doubt Emmitt will lose his plum gig on the Sunday morning pregame show. • Sean Salisbury says parting with ESPN was mutual / Los Angeles Times • Breaking News: Sean Salisbury Out At ESPN / Awful Announcing • Breaking News: ESPN ...

It’s Salisbury to Carter, Once Again
Published 2/27/2008 by Jason at Eleven Warriors
... His “unemployment” lasted all of about 17 days before ESPN tabbed him for an NFL analyst slot and a few hours later, Sean Salisbury was taking top honors in the “Who will be fired because of Cris Carter’s hiring pool.” ...

MMA Officiating Under Fire: Gambling Anyone?
Published 4/3/2008 by Jeff V at JV Sports
... attacks is a very low threshold to meet. Think about it, De La Hoya couldn't intelligently defend himself during the entirety of the Mayweather fight and that fight went the distance. I'm not saying that they should have stopped that fight but just think about how wishy-washy that language is. One ref's intelligent defense could easily be an other's TKO. Also, think about how unintelligently defensive Sean Salisbury is was to John Clayton and they didn't stop those...wait oops. ...

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Goodbye, Sean Salisbury

Hugging Harold Reynolds posted 2/27/2008 from huggingharoldreynolds.blogspot.com

With news of Salisbury's departure from the four-letter network, onemust wonder where he goes from there.

Sean Salisbury Leaving ESPN

McLovin posted 2/26/2008 from sports.aol.com

NFL analyst Sean Salisbury is leaving ESPN, he and the network said in a joint statement today. In the statement, Salisbury said this: "I want to thank ESPN for 12 great years of talking football on TV and the radio. I have grown as much as I can at ESPN and decided to expand my horizons. I have created a brand and it's time to expand into other opportunities in TV, radio, Internet, ...

Sean Salisbury Out at ESPN

Big Head posted 2/27/2008 from bullyforoldmizzou.blogspot.com

ESPN Drives Stake Through Salisbury’s TV Career

The World of Isaac found this 2/27/2008 on www.sportsbybrooks.com

Michael David Smith of AOL FANHOUSE reports that ESPN’s Sean Salisbury is setting sail from Bristol . The NFL analyst is parting ways with the Worldwide Leader after 12 years of service. But he didn’t leave without selling himself ...

Carter Joins ESPN as Salisbury Leaves

BillJordaniv posted 2/27/2008 from bizoffootball.com

ESPN announced on Tuesday that they were going to hire former wide receiver Cris Carter , formerly of HBO’s Inside the NFL , to be a football analyst for the network. Carter will replace ESPN mainstay Sean Salisbury who will be leaving the network. It is unclear exactly why Salisbury is leaving ESPN. A spokesman for the network, Bill Hofheimer , said that Salisbury ’s efforts over the ...

So Much For The Amicable Parting, Salisbury Lays Into ESPN

Jayhawk Fan posted 2/27/2008 from awfulannouncing.blogspot.com

Those quotes that ESPN released last night seemed so nice and both parties seemed okay with the decision. Well that's not the case this morning. Sean Salisbury is now claiming that he was underpaid, unappreciated and he was "tired of it". Via the LA Times.... "I'm a free agent," he said. "I've been liberated. I knew this was coming, but I couldn't be happier. "I'd grown tired of being...

Wow. Sean Salisbury Done at ESPN

JoeSportsFan.com found this 2/27/2008 on thebiglead.com

Just about to leave for our weekly hoops game and decided to check email one more time. Good thing we did - an ESPN press release just announced that everyone’s favorite cell phone-wielding crank , Sean Salisbury, is finished at ESPN. John ...

Sean Salisbury, Moving On Down That Road, Man [Today John Clayton Walks Around With A Little Extra Hop In His Step]

JoeSportsFan.com found this 2/27/2008 on deadspin.com

To the casual ESPN viewer, it must have seemed confusing that Sean Salisbury, the former Vikings quarterback who once actually sported a fade, would be one of the most prominent NFL analysts on the world's biggest sports media enterprise. Sean ...

Sean Salisbury will take his 'brand' elsewhere, thank you

Posted 2/27/2008 on Watchdog

Turns out Will Ferrell (see below) is not the only USC alum in the news today. Hours after announcing Cris Carter would join its team of NFL analysts, ESPN announced that Sean Salisbury no longer is an ESPN football analyst. Salisbury had an amazingly long 12-year run. The Star-Tribune in Minneapolis reported his contract was up and ESPN chose not to renew. I can't find major fault ...

Salisbury Upset Both Of His Careers Went Down In Mediocrity

Posted 2/27/2008 on Sports Blog - football, basketball, and baseball

Sean Salisbury, who everyone well knows has been fired by ESPN, is happy about his departure, and felt he wasn’t treated as fairly as the “superstars” that broadcast . “Of his departure from ESPN, which was announced Tuesday, Sean Salisbury said he felt unappreciated and underpaid and he knew that by asking for a seven-figure contract, the result would be a “mutual ...

Salisbury speaks out

Posted 2/27/2008 on SPORTS COUCH POTATO

Former ESPN football analyst Sean Salisbury spoke out Wednesday about his departure from the network, telling the Los Angeles Times' Larry Stewart he'd "tired" of playing second fiddle to the Worldwide Leader's more prominent ex-jocks and wasn't going to take it anymore. ESPN is replacing Salisbury with Cris Carter, late of HBO's "Inside the NFL." "I'd grown tired of being punished ...

Salisbury underappreciated?

Posted 2/27/2008 on Sports Scope

Former ESPN analyst Sean Salisbury ignored the usual cliches after he and the network parted ways Tuesday. Instead of the "pursuing other opportunities" route, Salisbury, talking to Larry Stewart of the Los Angeles Times, decided to rip ESPN and his...

Sean Salisbury: “Liberated” From Employment

Posted 2/27/2008 on SPORTSbyBROOKS

We’re still reeling from ESPN’s announcement that the network bounced Sean Salisbury after 12 years. L.A. TIMES codger Larry Stewart has Sean’s *exclusive* reax - for those of us who care: “ I’d grown tired of being punished for not being an NFL superstar. Analysts who don’t work as hard as me, don’t prepare as hard as me, and don’t have ...

P.R. and the News Game: This is How ESPN Does You; Andy Katz - Pushin the ACC (down our throats)

Posted 2/27/2008 on Sports On My Mind

E ver wonder how some news gets pushed to the forefront while other news gets pushed into the background? Public relations firms, folks, that’s how. Every league and corp has them - and they all use them to, shall we say, massage the direction and tenor of the news - especially when it concerns them. Look around the Internet sports blogsphere (and you won’t have to look far), ...

Sean Salisbury tells LA Times parting w/ESPN was mutual

Posted 2/27/2008 on Watchdog

The venerable Larry Stewart at our fellow Tribune paper in L.A. has a little more to the story of Sean Salisbury's departure from ESPN. Salisbury sounds a tad miffed about being treated less well financially than other members of the ESPN crew whom he believes work less hard than him but were better players than him. He did not name names. Thus I have no idea exactly which former jocks ...

Sean Salisbury on Leaving ESPN: 'I Couldn't Be Happier ... ESPN Capped My Ceiling'

Posted 2/27/2008 on FanHouse

ESPN and NFL commentator Sean Salisbury went their separate ways yesterday, and in the joint announcement they released , Salisbury sounded just fine with it. But in a subsequent interview he gave, Salisbury suggested that ESPN would never let him become one of its star broadcasters because he wasn't a star NFL player. From Awful Announcing via the LA Times.... "I'm a free agent," he said. ...

Wednesday 02/27 A.M. Quickie:Yao, Vols, Vandy, Clemens, Kobe, More

Posted 2/27/2008 on Dan Shanoff

Today's Names to Know in today's Sporting News column : Yao Ming, Dikembe Mutombo, Shan Foster, John Q. Hammons, Kobe, Mo Williams, Roger Clemens, Debbie Clemens, Jessica Canseco, Scott Kazmir, Miguel Cabrera, Reggie Bush, Troy Williamson, Kevin Faulk, Sean Salisbury and More! Including : Why China owns the NBA... Why you could see Vandy's upset coming... Why Mizzou State is kind of ...

Salisbury out in Bristol

Posted 2/27/2008 on Tandler's Redskins Blog

ESPN has confirmed that Sean Salisbury, a 12-year veteran of the four-letter network’s TV and radio, is done in Bristol. “Sean Salisbury has made many contributions to our efforts for the past 12 years. We thank him and wish him all the best,” said ESPN spokesman Bill Hofheimer. For his part, Salisbury and his agent put a positive spin on the move, talking of ...

ESPN Waves Goodbye To Sean Salisbury; Welcomes Cris Carter

Posted 2/27/2008 on Sportaphile

In a move thats drawn a bittersweet reaction from me, ESPN has decided not to renew the contract of Sean Salisbury . While I was not the biggest Salisbury fan, there are other on air personalities that I would much rather see hit the road (Trey Wingo, Tom Jackson). There are two shreds of silver lining in this, the first is that Sean got in the ultimate zinger on his “on air ...

Carter For Salisbury Is An Upgrade

Posted 2/27/2008 on Signal to Noise

(Sean will have a lot more time on his hands to take bad webcam photos. At least he didn’t aim the camera lower this time.) So the news came out some time yesterday that Cris Carter, formerly of HBO’s Inside the NFL , picked up a new gig with ESPN (via Awful Announcing.) Natch, that added one more voice to an already overloaded cadre of former players as analysts, and ...

Salisbury Fired, Carter Hired

Posted 2/27/2008 on The NFL Guru

ESPN will be replacing NFL analyst Sean Salisbury with former Vikings great, wide receiver Cris Carter. “I want to thank ESPN for 12 great years of talking football on TV and the radio,” Salisbury said in a statement. “I have grown as much as I can at ESPN and decided to expand my horizons. I have created a brand and it’s time to expand into other opportunities in ...

ESPN PUTS THE STAKE IN SALISBURY

Posted 2/27/2008 on ProFootballTalk.com

As you likely already know, Sean Salisbury is out at ESPN. (I was out of pocket when the e-mail from ESPN announcing the departure came through the line.) The move was, in our view, long overdue. Per USA Today, Salisbury’s contract had expired. He likely sealed his fate with that disgraceful on-air dissing of John Clayton [...]