The former MLB pitcher and ESPN analyst tweeted a photo that compared Islamic extremists to Nazis.
ESPN has removed former MLB pitcher and current baseball analyst Curt Schilling from an assignment calling Little League World Series games after he tweeted a photo comparing Islamic extremists to Nazis on Tuesday.
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Schilling, who was hired by ESPN in 2010, tweeted and posted to Facebook this photo:
In November 2014, Schilling was involved in another Twitter-related controversy when he argued with fellow ESPN colleague Keith Law about creationism versus evolution. Law, on the side of evolution, was briefly suspended from using Twitter for calling out his colleague on a public forum.
Schilling is best-known for his performance during the 2004 ALCS, during which his injured ankle bled through his sock while he was on the mound. At the end of and after his career as a pitcher, Schilling ran a video game company that borrowed and ultimately lost $75 million from the state of Rhode Island.
Schilling announced early last year that he had been diagnosed with throat cancer, citing smokeless tobacco, which is commonly used by MLB players, as the cause. In August 2014, he announced his cancer was in remission.
Despite being pulled from the Little League assignment, Schilling is expected to make his regular appearance on this week's Sunday Night Baseball broadcast.
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