i sat down with christine brennen, sports xlumist for usa today. >> thank you. >> were you offended by what stephen said about women somehow provoking violence? >> yes, i was. i did not see it live. i saw the firestorm on twitter. and immediately just started to read up on it. and yes, i thought that was just a -- it was an awful thing to say. it was clooirl iclearly ill advised. stephen a. smith is a smart man. i don't know what he was trying to get it, but the word did just scream out and absolutely inappropriate and wrong. >> on that point, was his apology enough and did espn do enough by taking him off the air for a week? >> i wish they had done more. stephen a. smith is a colleague and a friend. i've probably known him for 20, 25 years. he is lucky to have his job, let's just say that. >> because? >> because if he had -- well, he certainly could have been fired, anyway, for what he said. i'm wondering if he had said something about other groups of people, obviously, you know, talked about women this way, if you say this in a racial sense, obviously he's an african-american men so

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