Schilling retweeted a post Tuesday morning that said, “Only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists”.
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Schilling recently tracked down cyberbullies who tweeted about his daughter.
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz tells very bad Announcing that Schilling will not be on the Sunday Night Baseball telecast this week.
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In the aftermath, ESPN quickly removed Schilling from his scheduled Little League World Series assignments this week.
Interestingly, Schilling is an avid collector of World War II memorabilia, including a number of Nazi uniforms with swastikas, according to the Boston Globe.
“Predicting the length of ESPN suspensions can be a sticky wicket”, Yoder wrote. Richard Sandomir, who initially reported the news, did not make it clear whether this was just a one week suspension.
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Schilling typically serves as a color commentator for ESPN’s Sunday night coverage, alongside fellow analyst John Kruk and play-by-play man Dan Shulman.
