{"id":324,"date":"2021-06-09T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/espn-fires-new-betting-analyst-kelly-in-vegas-for-past-homophobic-tweets\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T10:20:07","slug":"espn-fires-new-betting-analyst-kelly-in-vegas-for-past-homophobic-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/espn-fires-new-betting-analyst-kelly-in-vegas-for-past-homophobic-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Fires New Betting Analyst \u2018Kelly in Vegas\u2019 for Past Homophobic Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Inhaltsverzeichnis<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/espn-fires-new-betting-analyst-kelly-in-vegas-for-past-homophobic-tweets\/#Anti-Gay_Slurs\" title=\"Anti-Gay Slurs\">Anti-Gay Slurs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/de\/espn-fires-new-betting-analyst-kelly-in-vegas-for-past-homophobic-tweets\/#Misogynistic_Attacks\" title=\"\u2018Misogynistic Attacks\u2019\">\u2018Misogynistic Attacks\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Handicapper Kelly Stewart has been sacked from her new job as a betting analyst for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/with-sports-bettors-stuck-at-home-espn-sees-opportunity-to-tap-into-viewer-thirst-for-useful-wager-info\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a> because of homophobic tweets she made nine years ago.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175694\" data-style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-175694 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly-142x80.jpg?x38396\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly-142x80.jpg?x38396\" alt=\"Kelly Stewart\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly-142x80.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data- title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-175694 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly.jpg?x38396\" alt=\"Kelly Stewart\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly-142x80.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kelly-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Kelly Stewart claims she resorted to homophobic language in a bid to silence trolls, who targeted her for being a woman in a male-dominated world. (Image: YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Known by her Twitter handle \u201cKelly in Vegas,\u201d the Kansas native was hired by the broadcaster in early May as an analyst on <em>Daily Wager\u00a0<\/em>and other ESPN sports betting platforms. She was to start her new role sometime this month.<\/p>\n<p>But Kelly took to Twitter over the weekend to confirm the news and apologize for the \u201cunacceptable and hurtful\u201d language she used nearly a decade ago, and to partially deflect the blame onto Twitter trolls.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Anti-Gay_Slurs\"><\/span><strong>Anti-Gay Slurs<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cESPN has notified me they terminated my contract due to deleted tweets from 2012,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI know the words I used were unacceptable and hurtful and I am terribly sorry for this lapse in judgment, but I cannot apologize for standing up to the vicious attacks I, and so many other female personalities, endure from online trolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Screenshots have since emerged showing four tweets posted by Stewart from March through July 2012, which repeat the same anti-gay slur.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p>yeah, but today my timeline is full of f*gs trying 2 say I\u2019m fake. It\u2019s so funny to me. Keep taking with your 17 followers,\u201d reads one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Three of these tweets appear to be responses to online abuse. Another is not so clear. In it, she laments that baseball pitcher Cliff Lee \u201cdecided\u201d to have a good game and ends with the slur used as a hashtag. However, we aren\u2019t party to the message she\u2019s responding to.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Misogynistic_Attacks\"><\/span><strong>\u2018Misogynistic Attacks\u2019<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t regret standing up for myself against vile, threatening, and misogynistic attacks from men who were threatened by a woman daring to make a living in the overwhelmingly male sports gambling industry,\u201d Stewart continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believed I had to stand up for myself in order to make it in this industry and I responded to their threats of violence and sexist insults with the most powerful language I could think to use.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p><strong>A decade later, I wish I hadn\u2019t made the decision to respond to their vitriol with my own, but I cannot change my past,\u201d she added.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stewart is a contributor to <em>the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Bleacher Report,<\/em> and <em>Wager Talk<\/em>. She first came to the attention of the Las Vegas sports betting world in 2012 when she hit a three-team money-line parlay.<\/p>\n<p>She offers a proxy betting service via her website kellyinvegas.com, which allows residents of other states to enter sports betting contests in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Stewart won the \u201cMini-Contest\u201d at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/westgate-supercontest-awards-winner-nfl-contest-breaks-record\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Westgate\u2019s SuperContest<\/a>, the famous NFL handicapping challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/espn-fires-betting-analyst-kelly-in-vegas-for-past-homophobic-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN Fires New Betting Analyst \u2018Kelly in Vegas\u2019 for Past Homophobic Tweets<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handicapper Kelly Stewart has been sacked from her new job as a betting analyst for ESPN because of homophobic tweets she made nine years ago. Kelly Stewart claims she resorted to homophobic language in a bid to silence trolls, who targeted her for being a woman in a male-dominated world. 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