ESPN Sr. NASCAR Producer Arrested In Connecticut

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It's been a very difficult day for ESPN. Network veteran Neil Goldberg, pictured above in the NASCAR TV production truck, has been arrested in Connecticut on four criminal charges. Goldberg is currently the Sr. Motorsports Producer for ESPN.

The nature of the charges makes it all the worse as ESPN has a long history of sexually-related incidents and arrests. The story is already making its way through the sports blogs and will no doubt be in the mainstream media soon.

Here is a concise summary from the mediabistro.com website:

An ESPN producer turned himself into authorities on Tuesday after he was caught peering into a neighbor’s window and masturbating while she was getting dressed.

Neil Goldberg was charged with public indecency, simple trespass, disorderly conduct and breach of peace, according to police in Connecticut. Last month, a neighbor walking her dog spotted Goldberg standing on a stool and masturbating while peering in a window. Goldberg later admitted to police that he watched his neighbor get dressed in her bedroom.

The 52-year-old Goldberg is a senior producer for ESPN’s motorsports coverage. He posted $1,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in Superior Court later this month in Hartford, CT.

ESPN has not yet (2:30PM ET) issued a statement on what actions may be taken with Goldberg following his arrest. We will update this post when that information is released.

Earlier this year, the network suspended analyst Randy LaJoie for failing a NASCAR drug test. LaJoie has been reinstated by NASCAR, but remains suspended from ESPN. Columnist Jay Mariotti was involved in a domestic incident in Los Angeles resulting in his arrest. Mariotti has not worked for ESPN since that time.

In the interest of fairness, I have known Goldberg since the 1980's when we worked on the ESPN NASCAR and Formula 1 telecasts. I have not been in contact with him for over a decade. He is one of the most veteran motorsports producers in the country.
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Shoot him. The nerve to tresspass and do that to someone. One step away from a rapist, if you ask me. Definate sex offender status.:espnsux:
MoMike
 
i think shooting someone for a non-vilent crime is a tad harsh. he'll probably get some sort of counseling and espn will demote him to covering dog sled races in alaska (if he's lucky). pretty sure this will get him classified as a sexual crime offender with the accompanying restrictions. sick, but the man needs help, not shooting.
 
MoMike said:
Shoot him. The nerve to tresspass and do that to someone. One step away from a rapist, if you ask me. Definate sex offender status.:espnsux:
MoMike
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I agree. If that victim had been my daughter..........
 
I just can't erase the mental picture of a bald headed man standing on a stool,,,,,,,,,;)
 
explains what hes really watching during the race. No wonder the broadcast sucks the lead producer is never watching it to know.
 
basscatcher89 said:
explains what hes really watching during the race. No wonder the broadcast sucks the lead producer is never watching it to know.
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I'm just sick and tired of *****ing about ESPN. So I'm not going to let their piss poor coverage get under my skin anymore.


NASCAR could be untelevised like USAR and ARCA.
 
SlowNeasy said:
i think shooting someone for a non-vilent crime is a tad harsh. he'll probably get some sort of counseling and espn will demote him to covering dog sled races in alaska (if he's lucky). pretty sure this will get him classified as a sexual crime offender with the accompanying restrictions. sick, but the man needs help, not shooting.
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Take into consideration here that this guy is probably making high 6 to 7 digits a year. Very succesful man, probably with a few degrees under his belt. He's not the underpriveleged neighborhood kid down the street out for kicks. He could probably buy any sick situation he wants. But, he chooses to stalk, and spy on an unsuspecting neighbor. At his age, I don't think it's "experimenting".
Couple that with the fact that a home invasion /rapist just got hammered big time in Connecticut, doesn't bode well for this perv.
MoMike
 
MoMike said:
Take into consideration here that this guy is probably making high 6 to 7 digits a year. Very succesful man, probably with a few degrees under his belt. He's not the underpriveleged neighborhood kid down the street out for kicks. He could probably buy any sick situation he wants. But, he chooses to stalk, and spy on an unsuspecting neighbor. At his age, I don't think it's "experimenting".
Couple that with the fact that a home invasion /rapist just got hammered big time in Connecticut, doesn't bode well for this perv.
MoMike
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Yep.

Fry'im.
 
MoMike said:
Take into consideration here that this guy is probably making high 6 to 7 digits a year. Very succesful man, probably with a few degrees under his belt. He's not the underpriveleged neighborhood kid down the street out for kicks. He could probably buy any sick situation he wants. But, he chooses to stalk, and spy on an unsuspecting neighbor. At his age, I don't think it's "experimenting".
Couple that with the fact that a home invasion /rapist just got hammered big time in Connecticut, doesn't bode well for this perv.
MoMike
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umless ct. has a surplus of jail cells this will be plea bargained to a fine, counseling and he will be placed on the sexual offender's list. there may be some token jail time. that's assuming a first offense. i don't know that any more than the assumptions you make. for all we know he's your average peeping tom who i don't believe get's slammed on a first offense. the man is sick. unless more comes out, counseling is a better alternative than jail.

Neil Goldberg was charged with public indecency, simple trespass, disorderly conduct and breach of peace, according to police in Connecticut. Last month, a neighbor walking her dog spotted Goldberg standing on a stool and masturbating while peering in a window. Goldberg later admitted to police that he watched his neighbor get dressed in her bedroom.

The 52-year-old Goldberg is a senior producer for ESPN’s motorsports coverage. He posted $1,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in Superior Court later this month in Hartford, CT.
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Well no matter what happens his career is over and most likely he will never be able to get a high paying job ever again. Steep price to pay to get your jollies off.
 
He can always donate a huge amount of cash to the democratic party and they will get him off, probably in more than one way.
 
basscatcher89 said:
Maybe they should, might generate more interest in the sport again if its not in our face 24/7
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or more likely we will ***** and moan about not having the races on tv and forget the fact that we wanted it
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Agreed sort of. Maybe not the races, but do we really need EVERY Practice session televised?
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I think practice should be show but we do not need 15 different shows about Nascar. Who cares about Nascar Race Hub, Nascar Race Day or whatever it's called, Nascar Now, Nascar Performance....ect
 
Stewart Fan said:
I think practice should be show but we do not need 15 different shows about Nascar. Who cares about Nascar Race Hub, Nascar Race Day or whatever it's called, Nascar Now, Nascar Performance....ect
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i agree with this. i'll sometimes turn on practice as background whereas i won't bother to lift the remote to watch the nascar infomercials.
 
Too much NASCAR coverage? The choice to watch as much or as little programming as you wish is yours. I love watching practice to hear the garage reporters get the lowdown on what the teams are doing to improve the cars. As a gearhead I find this at least as interesting as the racing, but that's just me.
 
I think that most of these guys weren't fans when there was no Nascar coverage through the week.I used to watch TWIN with Eli Gold just to find out what when on after the last race.If anyone thinks that there is too much coverage they are nuts. Get a new remote and change the channel for Petes sake.
 
"Back in the day", my parents and I would go to Phoenix for the Cup race. We'd get there sometime on Thursday evening.

As soon as the grandstands were open on Friday morning, my dad HAD to be up there. I used to tell my mom, he's afraid he's going to miss a spark plug change or something.

To each his own I guess, I've just never been that interested in watching practice and qualifying. I'd rather kick back in the air-conditioned motorhome until it's time to go racing.
 
zevious said:
To each his own I guess, I've just never been that interested in watching practice and qualifying. I'd rather kick back in the air-conditioned motorhome until it's time to go racing.
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But when you are sitting at home , in the frozen North , it's the next best thing to being there.
 
I think some people are missing the point on the issue of "too much" TV coverage, and why it's hurting instead of helping, and a serious contrubuter to the falling ratings on Sunday. Yes, you can might like to tune in to practice, qualifying, and whatever, which I suppose is great if you've been around long enough to remember what it was like before we had every race televised.

But think about it like this. Back then, I used to really look forward to race day, because it was the only day I could see racing stuff on TV. Now, with 8 bazillion hours of some sort of TV coverage, along with a bazillion highlight packages that they show, it takes away from the "specialness" of looking forward to Sunday for the race. If you miss it, no big woop. Or if you don't to sit through it, no biggy.
 
VaDirt said:
I think some people are missing the point on the issue of "too much" TV coverage, and why it's hurting instead of helping, and a serious contrubuter to the falling ratings on Sunday. Yes, you can might like to tune in to practice, qualifying, and whatever, which I suppose is great if you've been around long enough to remember what it was like before we had every race televised.

But think about it like this. Back then, I used to really look forward to race day, because it was the only day I could see racing stuff on TV. Now, with 8 bazillion hours of some sort of TV coverage, along with a bazillion highlight packages that they show, it takes away from the "specialness" of looking forward to Sunday for the race. If you miss it, no big woop. Or if you don't to sit through it, no biggy.
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But it makes me look forward to friday since I know I can see cars running
 
VaDirt said:
I think some people are missing the point on the issue of "too much" TV coverage, and why it's hurting instead of helping, and a serious contrubuter to the falling ratings on Sunday. Yes, you can might like to tune in to practice, qualifying, and whatever, which I suppose is great if you've been around long enough to remember what it was like before we had every race televised.

But think about it like this. Back then, I used to really look forward to race day, because it was the only day I could see racing stuff on TV. Now, with 8 bazillion hours of some sort of TV coverage, along with a bazillion highlight packages that they show, it takes away from the "specialness" of looking forward to Sunday for the race. If you miss it, no big woop. Or if you don't to sit through it, no biggy.
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The other thing is there used to be less NASCAR on television. But there was more dirt track racing, more late model racing, more ARCA, more USAR, more ASA and more everything else. Now, we're pretty much limited to NASCAR and IndyCar. And if you don't have VERSUS, you only get NASCAR.

The part that really stings is that there was a channel devoted entirely to motorsports that "relaunched" in 2002. Now, that channel airs 27 NASCAR shows, NASCAR everything and not a whole lot else. Thursday nights, ESPN Speedworld. Fridays, ARCA. Saturdays, USAR, Busch Series V6 engines on short tracks, USAC. Sundays, ASA, Winston Cup, NHRA (and not at 10pm EST either:espnsux:).

Now... Thursday: Reality TV show about adding stereo systems to cars, Friday: NASCAR Practice and Qualifying (ARCA if you're lucky), Saturday: Boring ass Trucks and Cup-Lites on cookie cutter tracks, Sunday: NASCAR, NHRA (if you're lucky).
 
Everyone who hates on ESPN while loving SPEED needs to realize ESPN aired more motorsports coverage during the 1990s than SPEED has ever aired and ever will air.
 
I just miss the days on speed where in one afternoon you would see a dirt late model race, then the arca race from toledo then a big block mod race on after that. It was all stuff worth watching not pinks or Pass Time
 
basscatcher89 said:
I just miss the days on speed where in one afternoon you would see a dirt late model race, then the arca race from toledo then a big block mod race on after that. It was all stuff worth watching not pinks or Pass Time
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Pass Time = no. Pinks All Out is actually pure racing. The best racing SPEED airs is Pinks All Out.
 
basscatcher89 said:
I just miss the days on speed where in one afternoon you would see a dirt late model race, then the arca race from toledo then a big block mod race on after that. It was all stuff worth watching not pinks or Pass Time
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I really miss those days too, they used to air the Syracuse mile on dirt, you used to see a lot of Usac Silver crown stuff too. I think all that reality stuff is for the birds , it doesn't belong on Speed.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Pass Time = no. Pinks All Out is actually pure racing. The best racing SPEED airs is Pinks All Out.
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Pinks All Out is bracket racing. The show picks a number that they bracket the cars within, if you run faster that the shows number your disqualified. That is bracket racing. I absolutely hate bracket racing. After I figured this out about All Out I quit watching the show.

Would be great if Speed started Speed2 for everything not Nascar.
 
blue92 said:
Pinks All Out is bracket racing. The show picks a number that they bracket the cars within, if you run faster that the shows number your disqualified. That is bracket racing. I absolutely hate bracket racing. After I figured this out about All Out I quit watching the show.

Would be great if Speed started Speed2 for everything not Nascar.
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the only difference, is that there's no dumping allowed, no electronics allowed, and the drivers have no idea what their 'dial-ins' are.
 
So.....

ESPN released a one-sentence statement – “We are in the process of looking into it” – and a spokesman confirmed Goldberg would not work the race this weekend.

Randy Lajoie, ESPN employee, fails a NASCAR drug test for testing positive for pot. He get suspended from both ESPN & NASCAR. His name/story appears for 48 straight hours on ESPN's bank of crawlers at the bottom of the screen.

ESPN seemed more than happy to slam Lajoie at every turn IMO. When is this sleazeball Goldberg going to get his turn from ESPN?
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Agreed sort of. Maybe not the races, but do we really need EVERY Practice session televised?
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I enjoy the practice.ESPN s*ucks so bad.I don't care about Dubuqe,Iowa's interschool football game, I want to see the start of the Nationwide races ON TIME AND ON THE CHANNELL LISTED. Not on ESPN6,or ESPNClassic,or whatever the newest addition to the lineup s to come out of Bristol Ct.
Can't wait for FOX to return.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
ESPN seemed more than happy to slam Lajoie at every turn IMO. When is this sleazeball Goldberg going to get his turn from ESPN?
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randy lajoie is a well known name in nascar racing circles. he's been around forever and most fans recognize the name even if they can't place it to a certain event. how many nascar fans, or people at all, have heard of neil goldberg? name recognition pulls in fan interest, especially if it's negative publicity. you'll have to find a psychologist to explain why negative publicity gets more attention than positive publicity. probably because positive publicity is too boring. i don't know, it just does.
 
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