Glen Kuiper has been fired from his function as Oakland A’s broadcaster … after he used the n-word whereas on-air earlier this month.
NBC Sports activities California mentioned in an announcement Monday it got here to the choice to half methods with the longtime play-by-play man following a weekslong investigation into the incident.
“We thank Glen for his dedication to Bay Space baseball over time,” the community mentioned in asserting the information.
Kuiper had initially been suspended on Might 6 for utilizing the racial slur whereas speaking with Dallas Braden simply earlier than the A’s vs. Royals recreation on Might 5.
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Throughout their dialog, Kuiper had been making an attempt to elucidate to viewers what they did through the leadup to Oakland’s contest in Kansas Metropolis … however in an try and say they’d gone to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, he muttered the n-word as an alternative.
Later within the recreation, the 60-year-old apologized for all of it … saying he had mentioned one thing that did not come out the way in which he supposed.
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“I couldn’t be extra sorry and horrified by what I mentioned,” he added in one other apology later within the week. “I hope you’ll settle for my sincerest apologies.”
Kuiper had been calling A’s video games and different sporting occasions within the Bay Space for twenty years.