So now Portland has two all sports radio stations: 1080 AM the Fan, ESPN radio & 95.5 FM the Game, with Fox Sports radio. Paul Allen, the owner of the Trailblazers created the new 95.5 the Game and hired away some of the staff of the Fan to make it go, as well as stealing some of his staff from his talk radio station KXL 750 AM.
I welcomed the new station and listen to both throughout the day, But I have to say that I have stopped and will not listen again to 95.5's "Morning Sports Page" show, hosted by Gavin Dawson. I used to really dig the guy and loved his insights about the Blazers, our hometown basketball team.
The reason for this is that the other week he made a statement that the only reason ESPN latched onto Christian athletes such as Dwight Howard or Kurt Warner was that they knew it would get them ratings. He went onto to say that he is sick of having Christianity shoved down his throat.
If he said what he said about Jews, Hindu's, Buddhists or Muslims he would have been fired the next day. But because he took his shot at the majority position of this country, though certainly not this market he can get away with it.
My solution, simply stop listening to him. I won't fight it. I will point it out here, and I will just make him irrelevant to my life... I hope more of his listeners will do the same.
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