Classy

Last Friday, ESPN.com's SportsNation published the above poll online. After considering the elements of it, "Senior Editors" who supposedly didn't see the poll previously, decided it was distasteful and took it off the site. ESPN issued an apology to a local Boston media outlet, and the story pretty much fell off the national media picture.

It is this type of gross abuse of power, authority, and audience that ESPN sometimes gets away with because they are the "Worldwide leader". How the ESPN staffer and ESPN execs above him/her do not get blasted in the national and local media for posting ludicrous polls or stories is beyond comprehension.

To have a thought about possibly ending an athlete's career, a person's livelihood, or even make the suggestion that a personal devastating injury could compare to a defeat on the field or a trade offer that fell through is an abomination.

After seeing this story on Awful Announcing and hearing a quick sound bite from Kevin Garnett, this story basically just fell off the radar thanks to the story of Petrino weaseling out of his deal with the Falcons and the upcoming Mitchell Report findings this afternoon.

Kudos to Garnett for responding calmly, while still questioning the point of including an option for his resulting possible injury. KG is a professional and exudes class on and off the court and for that he deserves all the credit in the world, not to mention good health.

However, I would hope that ESPN would learn from this and make sure they watch a little more closely before they put up something like this poll.

I love ESPN and ESPN.com as much as the next sports fan, but what's next for you SportsNation, a poll about which athlete you'd like to see dead next?