This is embarrassing for ESPN. No journalist should be suspended by his employer for simply being a journalist, especially when he was doing a piece that was blessed by said employer and he essentially ghost-wrote it. Feldman was ESPN's best college football guy and they threw it away in the name of nothing sensible. Even for ESPN, this is unexpectedly low.
I have a feeling this is going to get a lot bigger. ESPN/TTU look awful in that Mike Leach book...and almost everything in the book is backed by email and public record proof. ESPN will end up paying out of their collective ***** if Bruce Feldman files a lawsuit for wrongful termination (if he's fired, which is bound to happen).
This is ridiculous. If ESPN wants to consider itself a news source, then it has no business suspending one of their best writers for simply doing his job the way any true journalist should.