ESPN disciplined Curt Shilling, the former Major League Baseball pitcher and its "Sunday Night Baseball" analyst, for a post that he shared on Twitter suggesting Muslim extremists are comparable to Nazis and used a picture of Adolf Hitler as artwork.
He was pulled from calling a Little League World Series Game on Aug. 25, reported today's New York Times.
"Curt's tweet was so completely unacceptable and in no way represents or company's perspective," said a statement from ESPN. "We make that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League assignment pending further consideration."
Schilling, 48, deleted his post and apologized on Twitter. He understands and accepts the suspension. "Bad choices have bad consequences and this was a bad decision in every way on my part."
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