The Seattle Times · Sep 10, 2018
Emails: ESPN executive called Mark Jones’ behavior toward UW Huskies ‘childish’
ESPN broadcaster Mark Jones. (Joe Faraoni / ESPN Images)Washington was none too pleased about a sarcastic tweet from ESPN announcer Mark Jones following the Huskies’ loss to Auburn.
Nor was the Pac-12.
Nor, it seems, was Jones’ employer.
“Childish behavior that is unacceptable,” an ESPN executive wrote to UW athletic director Jen Cohen in an email obtained by the Hotline via a public records request.
Nick Dawson, ESPN’s vice president for programming and acquisitions, also told Cohen that “we will also ensure that Mark is not assigned to any further Washington games.”
Dawson did not specify how long the ban would be in place.