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Ex-Stanford Coach Troy Taylor Sues ESPN for Defamation
Taylor, who was fired after a pair of 3–9 seasons, alleges that ESPN articles about his workplace conduct led to his firing this spring.
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Ex-Stanford Coach Troy Taylor Sues ESPN for Defamation
Taylor, who was fired after a pair of 3–9 seasons, alleges that ESPN articles about his workplace conduct led to his firing this spring.
Former Stanford football coach Troy Taylor is suing ESPN and its reporter for defamation, claiming the outlet knowingly published false information about him in a March story that led to his firing.
The complaint, filed Wednesday in the Northern District of California, centers says ESPN and reporter Xuan Thai “intentionally twisted the facts to advance a particular narrative and made (and repeated) patently false statements about Taylor for the purpose of harming his reputation and pressuring Stanford to fire him.” Spokespeople for ESPN and Stanford declined to comment, while Thai did not immediately respond.
A lawyer for Taylor told the Sacramento Bee that ESPN “repeatedly made false statements about the investigatory findings to paint Troy as a misogynistic bully” and that they filed the suit so Taylor could return to coaching.
ESPN published the story, headlined “Reports find Stanford’s Taylor bullied, belittled female staffers” written by Thai on March 19, and Stanford fired Taylor six days later. (He also went 3–9 in both of his seasons on The Farm.)
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