
ESPN Tells Little Leaguers Harold Reynolds Is DeadPosted: Thursday August 24, 2006 1:30PM; Updated: Monday August 28, 2006 1:25PM
WILLIAMSPORT, PA -- Coordinators of ESPN's coverage of the Little League World Series were forced to tell curious 12-year-olds that Harold Reynolds, the color commentator who has been covering the event for years, was dead. Reynolds was fired from ESPN last month after being accused of sexual harassment, but the network didn't want to divulge the information to the kids. "Sorry, kids, but Harold's dead," producer Carol Schumann told a group of horrified little leaguers. "He died in a mysterious accident. We don't know too many details except that it was kind of gross and yucky and it's best if we don't even talk about it. Sometimes people die. Get used to it. Anyway, we have Joe Morgan now. He's about as humorless as an Islamic fundamentalist, but his knowledge of the game is unparalleled. And he doesn't hug anybody inappropriately." This story is not real. All names are made up, except in cases when public figures are being satirized. All quotes are fictional and any similarity to actual quotes is coincidental. Dave Saraiva is the author of thebrushback.com. Click here to buy his book, The Brushback Report: All the Sports News That's Unfit to Print
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