joseph agrees with keith olbermann and tweets these jeter zealots are amazing.hey won't even consider that maybe jeter isn't as good as they think with mary kissel is still here. don't pass judgment on jeter. try not to. did i jumped the shark. >> it is sad that keith olbermann can't celebrate, and i don't follow his statistics religiously like my colleagues do but he is a classy guy. in some respects he is exceptional because he is so ordinary, a decent guy. what it says to me about society is standout to the degree that he does. stuart: brilliant baseball player, decent guy. who would have thought? what is wrong with that? nike stock is a huge winner, reported higher profits. in the background to the nike story is a mess made by athletes behaving badly. nike has recently terminated contract with adrian peterson, ray rice, a oscar pistorius over domestic violence. joining us by phone is sunny c bacca baccaro. there's a distinction to be made here between endorsement contracts which you can lose if you behave badly off the field versus playing contract which are

so, you know, from keith olbermann has been destroying them. so, i think the bigger part of the suspension for bill simmons was the challenge he issued to his management that said, come and get me. i dare you to suspend me. i dare you to criticize me over that. >> it might be different. >> i don't think him criticizing the nfl alone was the problem because espn has been killing the nfl. >> and his language was ugly. >> he used some language that didn't help either. but it was the direct challenge. >> espn opened themselves up to this direct comparison. >> three weeks. are you kidding me? >> it appears they sided with the hugely unpopular commissioner over their hugely popular employee. >> they were saying that goodell, i mean, they were tough on goodell but bill simmons came out and said what we've said. that he's lying. he called him a liar and, you know -- >> don't do it. >> don't do what? >> i dare you to suspend me for -- i dare you to suspend me for three years, with pay, please. you get all these people like jesse ventura, he does one sho

does he deserve the accolades that keith olbermann wants to take away from him? >> i think he does.he field and off the field, has to deal with. they would have gotten rid of him. he is doing his job whether it might be off the field more than on the field, still deserve the accolades he is getting. stuart: i you very conscious, stardom of the fields, and what you do off the field can affect your reputation as a brilliant soccer player. you are aware of this. >> more experience, the longer i played, i am a role model and what i do off the fields and what i do on the field as well. stuart: strictly fry that. >> as much as i can. as an athlete, i am there to support my team. try to make everybody happy, the pulse of the team. stuart: some money side of things, derek jeter is spending a fortune out of his retirement because of the field he is a good guy. gatorade, signing all these baseballs and the rest of it. you must be conscious of that. play a positive side of the fields so you can make more money. >> you have to earn a living. i am on the road over 200 days out of the year. on th

. >> he will take keith olbermann's job on msnbc. he knows -- you are right he knows he will get hammered. there are probably other options for him. he is the guy who spoke truth to power. >> here is my theory, espn is caught in the eye of this pc tornado. at any moment somebody on your block and in your job will say something and they have to suspend him because they don't know what else they can do. >> it is sneaky business when your biggest smoin earner -- money earner is a journalist. if he really thinks she liar, why can't he say it? he is a journalist. where is his first amendment right? it is all sneaky, behind doors. >> there has to be a journalistic, ethical statement. they have a standard -- >> the nfl put the pressure on them to do that. why would espn care? that is one commentator's opinion. who cares? >> he is in trouble for saying bs like i said on your show a little while ago? which i guess i am kicked off too, or the fact that he called goodell a lier? >> that's what it is. he is going after goodell. espn and goodell

keith olbermann and terry o'neill said the reason she thought that is after looking into the nfl theyozens of domestic violence incidents. is everyone calling for goodell to lose his job? are they all off their rockers? >> not everyone's calling for him to lose his job, number one. number two, more importantly, i apologized to terry o'neill on television earlier this morning. i was alluding to her taking that position strictly off the premise complaining about how he did his job in this particular situation. my argument against the position was simply for this one incident where all you have is that he didn't handle it to your liking, that's no reason for him to be dismissed as commissioner of the national football league. it was in the aftermath of that that we learned that her position was about 50-some odd cases that goodell oversaw since 2006 and players involved this level of lawlessness and not enough is done to her liking and talking about a history involving the nfl and it was far more extensive and expansive that what she let on when her original quote and statement came out

espn host keith olbermann has called goodell an enabler of men who beat women. a san francisco chronicle columnist said roger goodell should follow rice out the door. and terry o'neal called it a krois within the entire nfl saying, quote, the nfl has lost its way. it sets the example for college, high school, middle school and even elementary school football programs. and, quote, new leadership must come in to transform the culture of violence against women, end quote. now goodell himself is coming forward and speaking to cbs news, miguel marquez looks at the interview and goodell's shocking statement about rice's future. >> reporter: under a firestorm of criticism, nfl commissioner roger goodell speaking out for the first time since this shocking video was released on monday. in an interview with cbs news, goodell says the league never saw this video until after it was posted by tmz sports. >> did you know that a second tape existed? >> we had not seen any videotape of what occurred in the elevator? we assumed there was a video. we asked for video. but we were

case in point, keith olbermann on monday. >> roger goodell's existence, who he is, what he turned the nfl commissioner's office into is now symbolized by ray rice's brutal left hand striking janay palmer and striking her again. mr. goodell is an enabler of men that beat women. his position within the national football league is no longer tenable. >> and now today the president of the national organization for women says "the nfl lost its way. new leadership must come in to transform the culture of violence against him." roger goodell did acknowledge this to cbs news. there is domestic violence problem in the nfl but he isn't worried about his job and he did not rule out a comeback for ray rice. >> what does that mean that he was suspended indefinitely? does that mean ray rice will never play in the nfl again? >> i don't rule that out but he would have to make sure that we are fully confident that he's addressing this issue clearly. he's paid a price for the actions that he's already taken. >> do you feel like your job is on the line? >> no. i'm used to criticism. i'm used to that. eve

espn host keith olbermann put it so well on his show last night when he called out every single decision-maker involved. >> that intentionally or by neglect, the district attorney's office, the baltimore ravens, the national football league and commissioner roger goodell have conducted a cover-up of ray rice's brutal assault on his then-fiancee on february 15th. there is no other conclusion possible. each body, each leading individual involved came to a judicial conclusion about what happened to jenn'e palmer and what should happen to ray rice. each through deception or incompetence misled the public, damaged the efforts of every man and woman in this country seeking to merely slow down the epidemic of domestic violence and made a mockery of the process by which those who batter those they claim to love are to be brought to justice. not one of them, not commissioner goodell, not nfl chief counsel, not baltimore team president richard cass, not ozzy newsom, not the assistant prosecutor, not the prosecutor, not the superior court judge, not ray rice himself. no matter what actions were taken tod

. >> when keith olbermann was on msnbc, he had some strong things to say about the tea party. want to get your response. >> look at who is leading uny and look past the self justifications and see the fear, this unspoken, unnecessary fear of those who are different. if you believe there is merit to your argument, fine, but ask yourself when you go to a tea and listen to a politician or commentator praise these things, is it just a coincidence that they are virtually segregated? ask yourself, where are the black faces? who am i marching with? what are we afraid of? if it really is only the president's policy and not his skin, ask yourself one final question, why are you surrounded by the largest crowd you will see in your life that consists of nothing but people who look exactly like you? >> did you hear that when he said it originally? >> i wonder if he is actually gone to a tea party event. we have coordinators who are not white. we have people in this movement who care about their country. as long as we agree on the issues, we want more people to come into the tea party move

espn's keith olbermann. >> mr. goodell's ineptitude has not nearly rendered this football season meanless and irrelevant by contrast it reduced supporting or watching nfl football to a distasteful even a disrespectful act but most importantly comforted the violent and afflicted the victim. he's pushed to increase nfl punishment of domestic abusers to one-third of that repeat pot smokers his decision to suspend rice indefinitely after the ravens had fired him, are elements of classic tragedy written the right thing is finally done only after it is too late to matter. roger goodell's existence, who he is, what he has turned the nfl commissioner's office into is symbolized by ray rice's brutal left hand striking jennae palmer and striking her again. mr. goodell is an enabler of men who beat women. >> wow. and there is more. tmz reports the nfl never asked to see the video of rice assaulting his then fiance inside an atlantic city elevator. people who worked at the casino at the time of the assault, tell tmz if the nfl

he is responding, sounding more like keith olbermann then adam schefter. being said, to call this nflbiggest black eye in history, it is shameful for him to say that because the nfl has a history of horrific moments of violence against women. ofes of serial rape, cases murder. just two years ago, a player for the kansas city chiefs killed the mother of his child and then took his own life and front of his coach in the parking lot of the stadium. yet that is not the biggest black eye in nfl history? what makes this so much worse? because it was caught on is a publicd it relations crisis for the national football league. as long as we look at this through the lens of public relations, we're never going to get to the bottom of this issue, which is, how do you deal with the fact you have an incredibly violent game that causes had injuries, causes all kinds of financial pressure on families, and then how do you deal with it without violent spills over into the personal lives and families of players? for decades the nfl has treated it as something you pushed und

. >> keith olbermann making a splash on espn. you were in tears when he watched it. >> i have heard all the criticisms. i can see how anti-yankee fans, people who aren't yankee fans, would feel that way. i can understand where it comes from. for new yorkers, especially those who have never seen another generation of yankees win the world series, he is a special guy. >> he has been wonderfully consistent. he has been a rock. ability, thet tough skin to whether the new york critics. which counts for a lot here. one group that is not saying no to anything, the pharmaceutical companies pursuing mergers, even though the government says you cannot invert. we will discuss it. ♪ >> good morning, "bloomberg surveillance." jonathan miller will join us on commercial real estate, particularly his expertise on this make a buildings going up in many cities. jonathan miller on the state of real estate. our twitter question for the day -- the age-old question. .e need your responses >> let's get to u.s. companies concluding big pharma. they're n

espn's keith olbermann. >> mr.arly rendered this football season meanless and irrelevant by contrast it reduced supporting or watching nfl football to a distasteful even a disrespectful act but most importantly comforted the violent and afflicted