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West Virginia lets Bob Huggins off the hook too easily after anti-gay slurWest Virginia University basketball coach Bob Huggins will reportedly keep his job after uttering an anti-gay slur on a Cincinnati radio show. He will instead be penalized in the form of a $1 million reduction in salary, and will need to take sensitivity training....

If you’re mad at Bob Huggins but shrugged at Glen Kuiper, you’re part of the problemIf West Virginia men’s head basketball coach Bob Huggins gets fired for calling Xavier fans “Catholic f**s” on a Cincinnati radio show — whose hosts encouraged and laughed at his behavior — one of the greatest coaches in the history of the sport will have earned his termination. And if Oakland A’s b...

NC State announcer Gary Hahn ruins a perfectly fine bowl game with a heaping dollop of racismFor those who turned on the North Carolina State radio broadcast to listen to a friendly voice narrate a bowl game, with a silly sponsorship, against a former conference foe — Maryland — who better to do it than Gary Hahn? He is in his fourth decade as the Wolfpacks’ play-by-play announcer, and sure...

There's a new nepo baby in sports broadcasting

Updated Feb. 21, 2024: Chris Caray, the great-grandson of Harry Caray, will call A’s games for NBC Sports California. ...

The best sports calls of the 21st century

Is there anything that defines a moment in sports history quite like the announcers’ call over the sounds of a raucous crowd and a celebrating team (and your own sobs)? Do you believe in miracles, the band is on the field, the Giants win the pennant, pretty much anything Jack Buck ever said — they’r...

Dodgers finally honor first openly gay MLBer on Pride Night

The Los Angeles Dodgers are finally honoring Glenn Burke....

IDIOT OF THE YEAR #1: Jon Gruden, the face of a rotten NFL

Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE YEAR festivities! Nos. 50 through 11 are available for your enjoyment here. And our top 10:...

IDIOT OF THE YEAR #2: Aaron Rodgers, ‘immunized’ from absolutely nothing

Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE YEAR festivities! Nos. 50 through 11 are available for your enjoyment here. And our top 10 thus far:...