An Oklahoma school district has issued an apology after a longtime sports announcer called the names of the opposing team 'pretty disgusting' at the start of a high school girls basketball game. Lorna Pollard, whose daughter plays on the basketball team for Crooked Oak High School in Oklahoma
An Oklahoma school district has issued an apology after a longtime sports announcer called the names of the opposing team"pretty disgusting" at the start of a high school girls basketball game.
Pollard later posted the video to Facebook, stating that people at Newkirk initially tried to defend the announcer,"that the man was old and he didn't mean it like that."MORE: High school football coach fired after using racial slur in pre-game chant Knight then encouraged naysayers to"give the appropriate people a chance to handle things," stating that school administration removed the announcer and replaced him"with a person that went to lengths to ensure that everything else was announced correctly."
Newkirk Public Schools Superintendent Brady Barnes issued an apology on Saturday morning, saying that the longtime announcer"made an unfortunate and inappropriate personal comment."
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