Off-air anti-Jesus rant benches ESPN's Jacobson

0 Comments | USA TODAY, January, 2008 | by Michael Hiestand

Dana Jacobson, co-host of ESPN2's First Take, will remain off-air until Monday for comments at a social event she now says were "foolish and insensitive."

Jacobson spoke at a roast of ESPN's Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic in Atlantic City on Jan.1. Onstage there, according to The Press of Atlantic City, she was "swilling vodka" and "cursing like a sailor" and made "an absolute fool of herself" as the crowd booed.

That prompted her current one-week suspension. Says ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys: "She's been disciplined."

Also at the roast, Jacobson, a Michigan grad, made vulgar references about Notre Dame in trying to joke about the school with ex-Irish lineman Golic. Those references involved references about Jesus Christ -- prompting the Catholic...