In response to this morning’s Kenneth Cole PR gaffe, a crafty genius just created the Twitter handle @KennethColePR. Sampling: “Wardrobe got you water-BORED?” and “Ben Roethlisberger would force himself on More
Yesterday, I gave you my opinion about football players who are currently facing charges of rape (I don’t think they should be allowed to play). Today, we find out that Michael Vick — he of the infamous dogfighting charges — has signed a deal to be a spokesman for sports clothing company Unequal apparel. More
As we all know, the Super Bowl is upon us. And with every Super Bowl comes the obligatory rehashing of the major players’ histories of criminal charges, or, in some cases, still-pending criminal charges. Good old-fashioned American fun!
Anyway, of course the most prominent rapist player-with-a-past to look out for this year is Ben Roethlisberger, who has a series of sexual assault charges against him, some of which have been dropped.
In my brief research about this charmer, one of the first things I came across was this gem of a sentence from writer Russell Goldman at ABC News:
“‘Big Ben’ Roethlisberger dodged prosecution earlier this week when a Georgia district attorney announced that he could not prove that the quarterback had raped a 20-year-old sorority girl in a nightclub bathroom.”
Celebrity endorsements have long been a mutually beneficial relationship – a brand gets the cachet of being associated with someone famous, and the celebrity gets paid handsomely for use of their name and likeness. But for every great celebrity endorsement … More
