NBC Fires Glen Kuiper For Saying ‘N-Word’ On Live Television, Broadcaster Claims It Was A Slip
Oakland Athletics play-by-play broadcaster Glen Kuiper was fired by NBC Sports California two weeks after saying the n-word during a live broadcast. The 60-year-old broadcaster and former minor league player was describing a trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, during a pregame segment ahead of the Oakland A’s versus the Kansas City Royals game on May 5, when he seemingly mispronounced the word “negro” and said that the racial slur instead. “A little bit earlier in the show, I said something, didn’t come out quite the way I wanted it to and I just wanted to apolo...