US:
Tape of sports team owner in major market talking with his mistress is released
in which he makes racist statements, where said owner has some history of making
similar statements in the context of his other business interests, and the group
against which the racist statements are made constitutes a disproportionately
large share of the league’s players and fan base. League commissioner bans him
for life from league events, including his own team’s games; he is later forced
to sell team (albeit at market rate).
UK:
Chief executive of major sports league whose games and teams are followed by a
worldwide audience as it is widely considered to have some of the world’s best
teams in that sport has emails disclosed in which he talks about women,
including some identifiable ones in the office, in a sexist, crude and juvenile
way. He is not punished in any way as the emails were supposed to have been
private and the woman he talked about (whose continued employment,
coincidentally, depends on his goodwill) said she didn’t mind.
Daniel Case