Meh, at least he apologized.

Some people dont think about it being public, and just throw stream of consciousness out there.  It is what it is.

He's a big douchebag. Just read his bio on CBSsports.com. He's got little man syndrome or something. Actually, don't read it. He doesn't deserve the hits.

who is he again?

He could have smoked cigarettes, a cigar, a pipe, marijuana, hookah, crack, or perhaps some other hallucinogenic plant. I think we should eliminate marijuana and crack. If he was high on marijuana, I think he'd find something better to do than tweet. We can eliminate crack because his tweets are too far apart and are not erratic. That leaves us with hookah, cigarettes, a cigar, or a pipe. Let's eliminate hookah, he doesn't seem like the hookah type. A pipe? Perhaps, but not likely. That leaves us with cigars or cigarettes. I think the likely answer would be cigarettes. He's a writer, correct? And on The Wire, journalists smoke a lot. Therefore, we can say that he probably smoked cigarettes. The R-squared value for this was 0.996, so we can say that we have a high degree of confidence in this finding.

for the most part, in the media. These clowns just suck down the koolaid like everyone else, then spin out words. Very few of them are any more insightful than you or I. 

Before reading the apologies, I simply assumed this:

Gregg Doyel makes it his mission to piss off as many readers as possible. There are more Michigan fans than Michigan State fans, thus more people to piss off with his commentary.

That often is the basis for his columns.

MSU Fan: Gholston got suspended because Lewan made a racist comment. Even Michigan message board moderators have admitted it (Note: Chris Balas did a horrible job of confirming that Gholston was making the claim and not that the claim was legitimate).

Doyel: I disagree with the William Gholston suspension. Doesn't deserve it. But Michigan's Lewan deserves that and more.

UM Fan: WTF are you talking about?

Doyel researches if the racism has been confirmed or is just smoke created by MSU from top (MSU AD) to bottom (Gholston). Finds nothing. 

Doyel: I have to fall on the sword about Gholston. Stupidly, I didn't know he'd done more than the retaliatory punch. My apology to Lewan.

UM Fan: WTF are you talking about?

everyone has to have an opinion on everything, even when it is something they know nothing about...that's what this comes down to

guy is a complete idiot...period

Exactly right.  I thought the OP was referring to the apology, not the inane calling for Lewan to be punished as proof positive that the writer was stoned.

Apologies from the media are not easy to come by.  Just ask RR.

How didn't you see this coming?  He uses two Gs at the end afterall!

He very well might be smoking his own pubic hair.

This is the problem with Twitter. We're subjected to people's thoughts four seconds after they have them.

This is the trouuble with national columnists. You can't expect one to follow your team as well as you do when they're tasked with following every team (+ other sports in Doyel's case).

This is how you know Gregg Doyel is crazy...

After Week Two last season:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/13926209

"Which brings me to Saturday, when Michigan beat Notre Dame 28-24 as Denard Robinson staked his claim as the Heisman frontrunner and the Wolverines staked their claim as a top-five team."

Pot.

At least he admits his mistake.

yellow cat shit wrapped in reefer paper. Everybody hates Gregg Doyel.

he is not running for office, for peter's sake. 

Gholston wasn't In position for an omoplata and he had a crappy arm bar on Lewan. Regardless, he obviously was trying to hurt Lewan and Denard. I don't understand how the Big Ten excused both incidents for Gholston and Rush's slam.

Doyel is a national guy.  He covers a lot of games.  Apparently, Michigan vs Sparty isn't as big of a deal elsewhere as it is to us.  Consequently, he probably only saw one "incident:" not the entire laundry list like we have.  National writers "research" semi-relevant games on a much more superficial level than people who are actually following the teams.

For those who think he is a bit crazy, read his "hate mail" column every week.  It's really funny and it will further cement your opinion that he is a bit "out there."  My sense of humor is often sophomoric, so I look forward to it every week.  It's almost as enjoyable as TWIS.  YMMV.

I'm not a doyel fan. Punches have to result in suspensions but just that really doesn't raise my outrage. Of course what does is
1. The neck twist and judo chop
2. The fact that there were multiple instances
3. Other msu infractions like the final injury on DR
4. The fact that cheap shots were celebrated on the sideline
5. Dantonio did nothing about it in the game
6. Dantonio did nothing afterwards including the non apologies and the lies about being clean
So when doyel thought it was just a punch so didn't deserve anything, meh I just disagreed. So when he found out there was more he changed. Points for that

Correct me if I'm wrong but the suspension was for the punch. So nothing for all the other stuff. That's the outrage. That's what he should be outraged about. But that's common across the media.

Maybe he wants to interview for a job at the Freep and he had to prove that he is more than willing to make comments with the requisite research?  But in the end he blew his Freep chance, because 1) he dug digger, 2) when he found out he was wrong he corrected himself.

This is a problem with national sports writers. They make ignorant comments all the time.  I'm willing to cut someone a bit more slack for a tweet than a column or something that carries a bit more weight.  And like Snoopblue, I give credit for the guy at least admitting his error and correcting himself.  How many blowhard sports commentators ever do that?  It seems most double down on their original stupid remark by adding some after-the-fact rationalization, or move on and pretend it never happened and just ignore any attempts to point out how ignorant the original comment was.  I know it's a pretty low standard, to offer some praise to a guy who owns up to his mistake, but that does seem to be a rarity in today's world.

Also, kudos to those pointing out the error.  That may be the only recourse to such stupidity: continually providing background, context, and facts to educate the ignorant.

what, is he doing his best rush limbaugh impression on twitter?

The guy is simply tweeting.  His statements carry no weight or relevance.  He's just talking to hear himself or to pass time.  NBD