So often today someone says something, someone else takes offense, and people get fired or have to give lame apologizes that they probably don’t mean.
Here’s one of those type of situations: Last month, a “seasonal game day employee” of the Philadelphia Eagles named Dan Leone was fired for voicing his opinion. He said he thought “letting veteran Brian Dawkins leave via free agency” was a mistake. The Eagles then canned him.

Since he was a seasonal game day employee (which meant that he worked during home games), he essentially lost the ability to attend those games.
Then Dawkins signed …read more

Oh the rumor mills, they are abuzz!
The gist of the rumor is that Jeff Gerstmann, now former reviews editor for GameSpot, was fired because of his negative review of Kane and Lynch.
More specifically, he was fired because Eidos, publisher of Kane and Lynch and major GameSpot advertiser, was pissed off by Gerstmann’s review and threatened to pull their advertising dough.
Here are a couple of the facts:
#1 Gerstmann published his review of Kane and Lynch on the 13th of November.
#2 Gerstmann gave the game a 6/10.
#3 Gerstmann no longer works for GameSpot.
Everything else is just conjecture [for now]. But, it’s …read more