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GoGetEmTigers
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 |  Subject: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy  Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:02 am | |
| Detroit News columnist Rob Parker resigns
following Marinelli controversy
FREE PRESS STAFF • January 6, 2009
Detroit News sports columnist Rob Parker has left the paper, two weeks after he was criticized for asking Lions coach Rod Marinelli if he had wished his daughter had married a better defensive coordinator.
Managing editor Don Nauss said Parker resigned last week.
Parker declined to comment Tuesday, other than to say “I love Detroit, and I don’t plan on leaving.”
Parker, a New York native, said he would continue to comment Sunday nights on “Sports Final Edition” on WDIV-TV, host “Sports Rap” with former Lion Ron Rice on Saturday nights on Channel 38 and appear regularly on “ESPN First Take.”
Joe Barry is Marinelli’s son-in-law and was defensive coordinator during the Lions’ 0-16 season. On Dec. 21, after a loss to New Orleans, Parker asked Marinelli during a news conference about his daughter’s decision to marry Barry. The coach considered it a personal attack. Parker later apologized, said he wasn’t trying to hurt Marinelli or his family and considered it a light moment after a painful loss. | |
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catbox_9
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:22 am | |
|  If I ran a newspaper I'd hire him! | |
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GoGetEmTigers
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:44 am | |
| I don't blame him for his comments to Marinelli! The coach deserved it. | |
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catbox_9
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:45 pm | |
| If anything he should have resigned for being too soft on him :haha: | |
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gs78
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:47 pm | |
| I am glad to see Parker resign
He is such a Detroit teams hater
Especially the Lions and Tigers | |
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GoGetEmTigers
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:20 pm | |
| - gs78 wrote:
- I am glad to see Parker resign
He is such a Detroit teams hater
Especially the Lions and Tigers That is true, he really was down on the Tigers for many years. | |
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catbox_9
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:23 pm | |
| I don't read the Detroit-area newspapers so I wasn't aware of that. Maybe it's good he's gone. | |
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bobrob2004
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:25 pm | |
| He's not a very good sports writer... | |
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SoulRat
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:10 pm | |
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gs78
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:41 pm | |
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gs78
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| | Subject: Re: Columnist Rob Parker resigns following Marinelli controversy Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:43 pm | |
| And he often played the race card
He often was critical of fans booing Sheff
And thinks Culpepper should be the Lions QB next year
Parker= Stuart Scott wannabe | |
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