Sports Talk 790 “The Ticket” host Ethan Skolnick was arrested Wednesday in Boca Raton and charged with the of battery of a person 65 years of age or older. That person was not identified.
Skolnick was booked at the Palm Beach County Jail at 4:53 p.m. No other details regarding the incident were released by authorities.
Skolnick, 44, of Miramar, Fla., hosts a weekday show from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the popular south Florida sports talk radio show. Before radio, Skolnick appeared in TV commercials as a kid for the Juicy Juice beverage company, which was invented by his grandfather David Skolnick.
Skolnick also worked as a sports writer for the Palm Beach Post, the Sun Sentinel and the Miami Herald.
There was no mention of the incident on the radio station’s website. Skolnick’s picture and bio still appear on theticketmiami.com.
Bio from theticketmiami:
Ethan Skolnick can be heard exclusively on 790 The Ticket from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Monday to Friday. Wired to the Miami sports scene, Ethan brings knowledge, depth, humor and opinion to the radio. Tune in. Check him out. Learn stuff. Ethan J. Skolnick has been a professional sportswriter, based in South Florida, since 1996, and has been a radio guest or host for much of that time. A graduate of The Johns Hopkins University with a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University, Skolnick has regularly covered every local team — primarily the Miami Heat and Miami Dolphins — while covering virtually every major national sporting event. In addition to hosting The Ethan Skolnick Show on afternoon drive on The Ticket, he currently serves as a national NBA columnist and video analyst for CBS Interactive and a frequent guest on NBA TV. He has also co-authored two books, Raising Your Game and Innovative State. source
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