Adrian Karsten, ex-ESPN reporter, commits suicide

[d***@comcast.net]

ESPN REPORTER SUICIDE
NY Post

September 5, 2005 -- FORMER ESPN reporter Adrian Karsten, facing a
prison tax rap, was found dead, an apparent suicide, in his Wisconsin
home, officials said yesterday.
Cops declined to provide details but Karsten's ex-wife told The Post
that investigators have labeled it a suicide.

Karsten pleaded guilty in July to failing to report about $607,000 in
income he made as a sideline reporter for ESPN college football games
between 1999 and 2002.

He was sentenced to serve 11 months in prison and nine months home
confinement.

He was supposed to report to a federal lockup in Rochester...

[Harry Krause]

Post by d***@comcast.net
ESPN REPORTER SUICIDE
NY Post
September 5, 2005 -- FORMER ESPN reporter Adrian Karsten, facing a
prison tax rap, was found dead, an apparent suicide, in his Wisconsin
home, officials said yesterday.
Cops declined to provide details but Karsten's ex-wife told The Post
that investigators have labeled it a suicide.
Karsten pleaded guilty in July to failing to report about $607,000 in
income he made as a sideline reporter for ESPN college football games
between 1999 and 2002.
He was sentenced to serve 11 months in prison and nine months home
confinement.
He was supposed to report to a federal lockup in Rochester...

There is something grossly wrong with our society when a "sideline
reporter" for a cable sports network earns $150,000 a year (on average)
for working five months of college football a season.

[Terry del Fuego]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:08:58 -0400, Harry Krause

Post by Harry Krause
There is something grossly wrong with our society when a "sideline
reporter" for a cable sports network earns $150,000 a year (on average)
for working five months of college football a season.

If he got the job honestly and said job didn't involve hurting anyone
who gives a shit? Lucky guy.

Yeah, lots of other people are underpaid--horribly underpaid--for what
they have to put up with, but that's a separate issue.

[Harry Krause]

Post by Terry del Fuego
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:08:58 -0400, Harry Krause

Post by Harry Krause
There is something grossly wrong with our society when a "sideline
reporter" for a cable sports network earns $150,000 a year (on average)
for working five months of college football a season.

If he got the job honestly and said job didn't involve hurting anyone
who gives a shit? Lucky guy.
Yeah, lots of other people are underpaid--horribly underpaid--for what
they have to put up with, but that's a separate issue.

You're not a careful reader. I wasn't complaining about what the
sportscaster made, I was commenting on a society that paid so much more
for such non-essential duties than it is willing to pay for, say, a
nurse, a social worker, a fireman, a policeman, a teacher.

[Terry del Fuego]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:21:44 -0400, Harry Krause

Post by Harry Krause
You're not a careful reader.
I wasn't complaining about what the sportscaster made,
I was commenting on a society that paid so much more
for such non-essential duties than it is willing to pay for,
say, a nurse, a social worker, a fireman, a policeman, a teacher.

Nothing in what you wrote said that. You can claim that it was
implied and/or that I should have inferred it, however what you

Post by Harry Krause
There is something grossly wrong with our society when a "sideline
reporter" for a cable sports network earns $150,000 a year (on average)
for working five months of college football a season.

Had you in fact written what you now *claim* you had written, I'd have
simply nodded in agreement and moved on.

[King Daevid MacKenzie]

...I was acquainted with Adrian when he was with WCWC Radio in Ripon,
Wisconsin, in the mid-'80s. Very sorry to hear this. He seemed to be a
good guy back when...