The world has not ended, but there are a few individuals in the sports world who probably wish the Internet was destroyed. In the news Friday we have a former Olympian admitting a double life, an ESPN talker learning the duration of his suspension, and another NFL player receiving a death threat on Twitter.
In one of the most bizarre stories of the year, three-time U.S. Olympic middle-distance runner Suzy Favor Hamilton admitted that worked as a call girl in Las Vegas for the past year. Favor Hamilton, 44, runs a real estate brokerage firm in Wisconsin with her husband and is the mother of a 7-year-old girl.
She tried to explain her actions on Thursday in a series of tweets after her situation was revealed by the website The Smoking Gun.
I realize I have made highly irrational choices and I take full responsibility for them. I am not a victim here and knew what I was doing. I was drawn to escorting in large part because it provided many coping mechanisms for me when I was going through a very challenging time with my marriage and my life. It provided an escape from a life that I was struggling in. It was a double life.
Meanwhile, a day after ESPN "First Take" panelist Rob Parker apologized for his racially inflammatory comments about Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III, the network announced Thursday that Parker has been suspended for 30 days and acknowledged its mistake in re-airing the show unedited.
And in San Francisco, 49ers kicker David Akers disabled his Twitter account after someone threatened his life if he misses another field goal.
Get more details about those stories, plus check out videos, trivia and more, at Friday's Morning Mashup [1].
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[1] http://leeinks.weei.com/sports/2012/12/21/fridays-morning-mashup-ex-olympic-runner-suzy-favor-hamilton-admits-working-as-an-escort
[2] http://www.weei.com/category/boston/general