Gregg Doyel suspended

He made a heart with his hands.

 

Is that a union shop? I’m just trying to think how you’d write up that suspension. “Being cringe” is probably not covered in the CBA.

I dont know how you suspend a guy for being cringe. Re-assign him. Happens all the time, guys hopping beats because one team’s sick of him. As a columnist that’s imperfect but. Nevertheless. Like others I’ve seen a hell of a lot worse

 

Forget suspensions. I’m old enough to have heard horny, creepy reporters say things about females they covered that should’ve gotten them arrested.

 

Indy is a union shop. I assume there was some sort of negotiation/agreement, which is why nobody heard about this until the suspension was almost over. To be honest, I thought that punishment was a slap of the wrist and this will all be forgotten by football season.

 

A bit strange considering the years' worth of good work he has done there though this will likely get him booted from the 250-influential list.

Doyel has won 16 APSE Top 10 awards since 2007, eight for columns, including firsts in 2014, '17, '19 and '22. In 2023 he was named one of the 250 most influential business leaders in Indiana by the Indianapolis Business Journal.​

https://www.indystar.com/story/news...na-250-list-ibj-business-journal/70438957007/

 

Many times about high school-aged girls.

 

Wouldn't be the first time someone has had years of good work blown to hell over doing something stupid.

 

There's always the photog who takes scandalous shots and sits there trying to find evidence of a gymnast's erect nipples.

Seems like the creeps were usually the ones whose kids, if they had them, had aged out of high school, so they felt like they had a free pass to ogle to their heart's content.

Then there was the colleague of mine who, purportedly, had a way with the athletes' moms and tagged a few. He was probably around their age, or maybe just a bit younger, by that point.

 

I don't think things go that far. Because frankly, I don't think people were all that surprised that Doyel is a bit of a creep.

 

The difference is that every major press conference is broadcast these days. If this episode hadn’t been on tv and/or internet, it would have been unknown outside the room.

 

He's still allowed to cover the Colts and Pacers, and he can technically cover the Fever (just from afar). There are still plenty of ways for him to be a columnist for that newspaper, and I really doubt his readers will care about this issue with Caitlin in a few months when they are pissed off about some in-game decision made by Shane Steichen. I think you are overthinking this.