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'''Mike Freeman''', born [[October 13]], [[1961]] in [[Mount Holly Township, New Jersey|Mount Holly, New Jersey]] was a former African-American [[American football|football]] player and currently a sports columnist working for [[CBSSports.com|CBS Sportsline.com]]. He is known to cover [[National Football League|NFL]] football, [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] [[basketball]] and [[boxing]]. He has also written for [[The New York Times]], [[The Washington Post]], [[The Dallas Morning News]] and [[The Boston Globe]].

In [[January]] [[2004]], he admitted that he was lying on his resume about earning a degree in journalism and was fired from his job at the Indianapolis Star.[http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A4937-2004Jan9?language=printer]. On Nov. 26, 2007 Freeman wrote an article entitled, "Give me Trojans-Buckeyes over a Missouri-West Virginia snoozefest" in which he mocked West Viriginia and Missouri, calling them "hicks and heehaws" and was making incest remarks. [http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10495965] This ensued a major uproar of such a magnitude that there were newstories done concerning the article [http://wchs8.com/newsroom/eyewitness/0711/071129_1a2ed287.shtml] [http://www.wemustignitethiscouch.com/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=482][http://ballhype.com/story/missouri_tigers_ohio_state_buckeyes_southern/]

There is even a report that Joe Manchin is going to sue Mike Freeman and CBS for his comments [http://www.wemustignitethiscouch.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2856]An online petition has been written by Damian M. Berry that is calling for Freeman's termination. [http://www.petitiononline.com/43121212]

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