Oklahoma prep game broadcaster denounced for using racial epithet
OKLAHOMA CITY -- An announcer for a livestream of an Oklahoma girls' high school basketball game cursed and called one team by a racial epithet as the players kneeled during the national anthem.
The incident occurred Thursday before the Norman High School-Midwest City quarterfinal game in Sapulpa as "The Star-Spangled Banner" began to play. The broadcasters told listeners on the NFHS Network stream they would return after a break and then one, apparently not realizing the audio was live, used an expletive and the epithet as the Norman players kneeled.
"They're kneeling? [Expletive] them," one of the men said, video of which later went viral. "I hope Norman gets their ass kicked ... [Expletive] [epithet]."