ESPN is investigating comments made by Dan Dakich online and on his Indianapolis radio show last week.
The 58-year-old college basketball analyst recently got into a heated Twitter feud with several college professors about Duke freshman Jalan Johnson’s decision to drop out of the rest of the season. When asked about the status of Dakich with the network, an ESPN spokesperson issued the following statement (USA Today via Dan Wolken): “We are taking this matter very seriously and are in the process of looking into it.”
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Here’s how it all began: Nathan Kalman-Lamb, a fellow lecturing at Duke University, posted several tweets criticizing members of the media, including Dakich, who reacted to Johnson’s announcement “Punching on an unpaid campus athletic worker.”
Here some well-to-do people are exposed in such a way that their careers are built entirely on the unpaid labor of young people so that they too will attempt to humiliate them in public. pic.twitter.com/o0DCwDmeSn
– Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb) 24 February, 2021
Dakich followed back and forth on Twitter with Kalman-Memorial until Dakich stopped him.
So much before you arrive..plug … so Duke looks moral that you don’t know:
1-players are paid .. cash .. a bunch
More than i come– Donate 24 February, 2021
Additionally, Dakich engaged with Andrew McGregor, a professor of history at Dallas College’s Mountain View Campus, and Johanna Mellis, an assistant professor in the Department of History at Ursinus College.
Wow!!! Is it racist or sexist or both .. My God how is this person allowed to teach … how little respect does this man have for men and women of all castes who bite their asses to get a great education And play the game we love. … https://t.co/X3PTTkpMiB
– Donate 24 February, 2021
We are * not * saying that it is the athletes’ fault. My coworkers and I at Germ are very big supporters of the athletes in our classes who help them succeed academically.
You misunderstand what we are saying. This is an option for your internet feed and brand.
– Dr. Johanna Melis (@ johannamalis) 25 February, 2021
Lol, this is not about the effort of the athletes who are in it all. Nothing could be further from the truth. But you know, read it however you want from your 1-man “arena”.
– Dr. Johanna Melis (@ johannamalis) 25 February, 2021
When DaH took it to the airwaves, the quarrel escalated. As part of a long monologue, Dakich hoisted Kalman-Lamb’s name into the air, listing his office hours and calling him a “de-bag”. He also cited Melis’ tweet about going to it. “In the pool” – Melis was a college swimmer in the College of Charleston – considered as Melis Sexual violence threat.
From “The Dan Daksha Show” Fans in Indianapolis at 93.5 and 107.5:
“I came into the clutches of academics last night. Two people and a woman, right. Two men and a woman came to me. And they said, ‘Well, you’re screaming at the student-athletes while they are being exploited. Been, ‘or something, and I said,’ Look, maybe, but you know what I am? Now, remember, it was two men and one woman. Guess what’s called? Sexist . Be careful. I didn’t even realize. I just said it because of what people do. It’s obviously sexist because I said bitch, and a woman was in a conversation.
“And I said, ‘Outside the arena,’ and then she wanted to say, ‘Go to the pool.’ Okay, if you put it in a pool, it’s a public place, and then I’m gonna get divorced, and then it’s just a problem. “
Having faced backlash for his on-air response and social media posts, Dakich briefly deactivated his Twitter before returning on Sunday night.
Today was an episode at Traders Point Church
Hit me like a ton of bricks, as I hear Ryan Bramlett talked about the “benefit of doubt”
Voice asked me to withdraw from Twitter for 12 months
At the end of the service I went to the toilet and saw how to disable TWITTER
1 of 2– Donate March 1, 2021
2 out of 2 I’m Back !!
Ironically..it came with 2 options
Deactivate for 6 months
Deactivate for 12 months
I took it as a gesture and deactivated it for a year
Amazing things happen to me in churchToo much fun to be had and too much truth can be told !!!
– Dan Dakich (@dandakich) March 1, 2021
He has not yet directly addressed ESPN’s investigation of his comments.
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