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  • Fox Fires Lyons for Insensitive Comment

    10/14/2006 10:33:36 PM PDT · by Romney08 · 18 replies · 1,284+ views
    AP ^ | Oct 14, 5:12 PM (ET) | JANIE McCAULEY
    DETROIT (AP) - Fox baseball broadcaster Steve Lyons has been fired for making a racially insensitive comment directed at colleague Lou Piniella's Hispanic heritage on the air during Game 3 of the American League championship series. The network confirmed Saturday that Lyons was dismissed after Friday's comments. He has been replaced for the remainder of the series by Los Angeles Angels announcer Jose Mota. "Steve Lyons has been relieved of his Fox Sports duties for making comments on air that the company found inappropriate," network spokesman Dan Bell said. Lyons had been working in the booth for the ALCS alongside...
  • Fox Fires Lyons After Insensitive Comment

    10/14/2006 5:25:25 PM PDT · by raccoonradio · 20 replies · 1,704+ views
    MyWay AP ^ | 10/14/06 | Janie McCauley
    DETROIT (AP) -Fox baseball broadcaster Steve Lyons has been fired for making a racially insensitive comment directed at colleague Lou Piniella's Hispanic heritage on the air during Game 3 of the American League championship series. The network confirmed Saturday that Lyons was dismissed after Friday's game. He has been replaced for the remainder of the series by Los Angeles Angels announcer Jose Mota. Piniella had made an analogy involving the luck of finding a wallet, then briefly used a couple of Spanish phrases during Friday's broadcast. Lyons said that Piniella was "hablaing Espanol" - butchering the conjugation for the word...