Last week, sports radio icon Tony Bruno took aim at Deadspin for what he considered to be a hit piece, calling them a “clickbait, dirtbag site.”
His opinion of Deadspin is unlikely to have improved, after Crossing Broad reports Bruno has been removed from both SiriusXM and Sports Map Radio in response to the “hit piece.” The Deadspin story in question was written by Thomas LaForgia, titled ‘NBA Players Can’t Read,’ Idiot Proclaims on Radio.
After the column was published, Bruno was quickly removed from appearing daily on SiriusXM’s Dan Patrick Radio. He is off-air this week for a scheduled vacation, but Crossing Broad says they’ve been informed by Sports Map that Bruno won’t be returning to their network either.
Although the damning Deadspin headline attributes “NBA Players Can’t Read” to Bruno, the actual quote from the radio host was not exactly that. During his show from Monday Aug. 24, airing on Sports Map Radio and SiriusXM’s Dan Patrick Radio, Bruno referenced a meme featuring four pictures of LeBron James reading the first page of a book.
After a commercial break, Bruno was critical of LeBron’s social stances, telling his co-host Harry Mayes, “that’s why I despise LeBron James and I despise the NBA.”
“Most of these guys don’t – can’t even read, for god’s sake,” Bruno later said.
The situation was described appropriately within the Deadspin column, but as BSM reported last week, Bruno took issue with the headline and threatened legal action.
“Maybe this schmuck doesn’t know what quotation marks mean. Quotation marks mean it is what somebody said. You put that as your headline, of course that’s going to get people to come on and read the story,” Bruno said last week in response to LaForgia’s column for Deadspin.
If The Tony Bruno Show is indeed finished on Sports Map Radio, it was a short tenure, having joined the network last May. The show’s run on SiriusXM was similarly brief, lasting just five months.
Brandon Contes is a former reporter for BSM, now working for Awful Announcing. You can find him on Twitter @BrandonContes or reach him by email at Brandon.Contes@gmail.com.
Tony Bruno has got to be the most overated person with Jim Rome. Good ridence to him.
Landon Terry
lnterry6@gmail.com
This schmuck can’t hold a job….
1st Amendment!!! Freedom of speech!!!????????
Its his job to elicit response from us!!!!!!
Lebatard, Stephen A, Rome , Maddog. are all paid to piss you off & get you to think & respond
Now you want to fire them for it????
Oversensitive , wimpy, pussywillow culture now is sad-
Listen, you Jabroni, the 1st Amendment of the Constitution only keeps the GOVERNMENT fr restricting your right to talk. Both radio networks Tony was on are, are you ready for this?? PRIVATE COMPANIES who can discipline employees or in this case, talent that is featured on their network. If it was the FCC that ordered Tony to be taken off the air, then THAT’S a violation of the 1st Amendment.
But you tried… Yes you did…