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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Episode 27: Tennis announcer and analyst Doug Adler's incredible story of being fired by ESPN.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you say something that is technically correct, then completely misguided by someone on social media?  If you're Doug Adler, you lose your job, your career, your voice and damn near your life.  Doug's story is a frightening one for anyone in the media with a microphone in front of them.  Describing play by Venus Williams at the Australian open in 2017 did it.  Now nearly three years later, ESPN has settled with him.  His story is one that should be told over and over.   "Branded" incorrectly as a racist, hear how he has grown from the experience and how one horribly incorrect and even malicious tweet destroyed so much of what he worked so long  to build.  Don't forget, to order your personal grooming products from Manscaped too.  Get a  20% discount on mens grooming items by visiting www.manscaped.com.  Type in NAPES in the discount code and get free shipping as well!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You definitely do learn who your friends are in a time of crisis.

0:04.9

And I would say I was let down most by the folks that I had worked with over the past 15 years because they were the ones that not only continually

0:17.0

hired me and talked me up for working the biggest jobs in the world, but also my commentator friends that never questioned who I

0:26.3

wasn't as an individual but didn't have the ball to step forward.

0:30.9

I'm now. Right, neighbor. to step forward. And now, Grand Neighbour! Hope everybody is doing well before I continue. I really want to thank Jeff Holden who put together the

0:55.5

episode that we aired on Friday with a recap of the first three months and he put

1:01.2

all the sound bites together and Thot he did a great job so I just

1:04.9

wanted to say thank you to Jeff Holden for putting that podcast together for me.

1:08.2

I thought it was outstanding and if you missed it just go back you can go to if you don't

1:11.8

like that dot com or your favorite podcast platform and check it out. Well of course over the

1:18.7

weekend we got the news and the passing of Paul Westfall and I've been pretty vocal about how special of a person

1:25.9

Paul was in my life and just the kindest nicest guy the Hall of Famer I was so happy that I was in Springfield, Mass, two summers ago when he and

1:37.6

Blay-Divots were inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

1:42.5

And a little bit later in the podcast during crowd question,

1:45.7

I'll get into a little bit more detail about Paul.

1:48.6

But 70 years of age. Just, I can't believe he's gone.

1:55.0

Such a great man and my sympathies and prayers to Cindy, his wife,

2:00.0

and the family, Paul Westfall, way way too soon at the age of 70 and as I

2:08.4

record this okay the Kings are getting ready to take on.

2:14.9

The Golden State Warriors, and you got Marvin Bagley's father,

2:21.4

and I've done a rant on the 31st. I did a rant again that aired yesterday. I still cannot believe what is going on.

2:30.0

And then De Aaron Fox's dad comes out on social media on Sunday night and says,

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