It was the lap dance heard around the sports world.
And now, Fox Sports 1 boss Jamie Horowitz is strongly coming to the defense of reporter Julie Stewart-Binks for inviting Rob Gronkowski to give her a "Magic Mike"-type lap dance on Jason Whitlock's show during Super Bowl week.
Horowitz told Sporting News he wants "fearless and incisive" programming on FS1 and FS2. The Patriots' party-hearty tight end had previously told Conan O'Brien about his male stripping past. If anybody went too far, it was probably Gronkowski, not Stewart-Binks, Horowitz told Sporting News.
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"She thought she could do a fun bit with him.