10.27.2009 10:52 am

Announcer suspended for comment about Colombian NASCAR driver

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

College football announcer Bob Griese has become the latest sports commentator to demonstrate that ethnic or racial humor is out of bounds. ESPN today suspended Griese for a week for an on-air comment he made during the Minnesota-Ohio State game.

During a…

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Tags: ABC, Bob Griese, college football announcers, ESPN, ethnic humor, ethnic slur, Juan Pablo Montoya, Michael Hiestand, NASCAR, sports commentators, USA Today, USAToday.com

02.27.2009 11:05 pm

Will they be able to discuss a century-old injustice?

By Ron Wade

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Here’s a story about the difficulty of talking about race and our racial past. An ESPN “Outside the Lines” installment for Black History Month, to be aired on Sunday night, looks at a white man and a black man in…

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Tags: Black History Month, blog, Confederacy, conversation, ESPN, lynching, Post-Dispatch, race

Announcer suspended for comment about Colombian NASCAR driver

Will they be able to discuss a century-old injustice?

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