Did ESPN cut jokes from ESPY broadcast?

By Don Day 

Sports blog Deadspin reports ESPN sliced a bunch of material from host Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue at the ESPY awards. The show taped last Thursday, and aired Sunday – standard practice for this event – but it gives the network several days to edit and repackage. Most of the jokes the site says producers cut make fun of athletes — including this:

Michael Vick, as you’ve probably heard, is picking up where Bob Barker left off, to try to help control the pet population.

I think that’s great.

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He’s also been doing some wonderful things for people in his local community – just this last weekend, he let the police have a treasure hunt in his backyard.

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