We should all be so lucky to find someone who believes in us like Mark Jones believes in Deion Sanders — even when the rankings don’t.
The ESPN play-by-play announcer has been a staunch defender of the Colorado Buffaloes’ head coach. When Sanders and the university barred Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler from asking questions, Jones claimed that Keeler crossed a line by attacking Sanders’s faith .
That was after a production meeting with the second-year Colorado coach, but there’s a relationship there. And Keeler wasn’t the only journalist Sanders clashed with in August. There was also a dispute with a local Colorado CBS Sports affiliate , with some suggesting it stemmed from editorial content…