ESPN is apparently a wild place to work. When I heard last month that SVP Keith Clinkscale was leaving the company to become an independent producer and his 25-person content development department was being eliminated, I knew something was strange. These are the people who created the popular 30 for 30 documentaries, Sports Nation and other sports/entertainment fusion programing for the network.

Now, Deadpin has the goods on what allegedly caused him to leave. ESPN reps are saying that this way is a more efficient business model, and perhaps that’s true. But, with accusations of threatening coworkers, inappropriate sexual behavior on an airplane in front of ESPN reporter, Erin Andrews AND a lawsuit about this Deadspin article that was filed BEFORE the article was published… I’d say the ugliness is just beginning to make it’s way to the surface.

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