Jason Cole's credibility takes another hit (1 Viewer)

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Has anyone else seen Jason Cole in person? He looks like a dopey hunchback.

Let me get this straight: You are a Saints fan, you've seen Jason Cole in person-- and you let him get out alive??? :shakeshead:


Jason Cole = hack. Some things never change...

 

[St. Geezy]

POSTED 9:32 p.m. EST, March 4, 2008
YAHOO! CAVES TO COACH KEVLAR
Broncos coach Mike Shanahan can no longer deny it. He is, we believe, a closet member of PFT Planet.
How do we know this? On September 13, 2007, Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports reported that Shanahan "had been hiring spies to videotape the Chargers practices."
But from September through October, November, December, and January, Shanahan didn't react.
On February 23, we wrote an item that mentioned the Cole article. And "in recent days" Shanahan has demanded a retraction and apology from Yahoo! via letters from his lawyer, Harvey Steinberg.
Coincidentally, Harvey Steinberg also represented Broncos running back Travis Henry in his 2007 battle with the league over drug testing.
Steinberg seems to be setting the stage for a defamation lawsuit against Yahoo!, by claiming that Cole's alleged failure to contact Shanahan for comment constitutes "actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth," either of which is a necessary ingredient in a claim for defamation brought by a public figure.
"Editors' note: We have eliminated a paragraph in this story that, upon review, does not meet the editorial standards of Yahoo! Sports. We took immediate action to eliminate the content from our site as soon as we became aware of this matter."​

http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm​

 

[scsouth]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/mar/04/shanahan-denies-spying-allegation/

In a letter addressed to Yahoo senior NFL writer Jason Cole and sent to the company's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Shanahan's attorney, Harvey Steinberg, of Denver, called the paragraph regarding Shanahan in the original story "completely untrue and without foundation."

Copies of the letter also were sent to Yahoo CEO Jerry Wang, president Susan Decker, co- founder David Filo and executive vice president and general counsel Michael J. Callahan.

The letter goes on to say "Coach Shanahan has never engaged in any such practice, let alone even discussed the possibility of any such activities. As a result, this article is defamatory and libelous."

The letter also asserts Shanahan was not contacted to comment on the story before it was published, which was "in our mind, evidence of either actual malice towards coach Shanahan or reckless disregard for the truth."

Hmm...sound familiar??

 

[cruize]

Taylor will be traded on or near draft day.