A racist ESPN headline has basketball fans outraged this morning. It’s little consolation to sports fans that ESPN issued an apology for last night’s “Chink in the Armor” Jeremy Lin headline — what matters is that the headline went up in the first place.
Rob King, ESPN.com’s editor-in-chief, tweeted a message about the slip-up.
There’s no defense for the indefensible. All we can offer are our apologies, sincere though incalculably inadequate.
But sports fans want heads to roll. ESPN radio sports reporter Nubyjas Wilborn, who is no stranger to controversy himself, tweeted:
“Whomever posted it and the editor who didn’t catch it sooner probably will get fired. I hope it’s nobody I know.”
ESPN has yet to comment on an anchor’s use of the same phrase during a segment on the Knicks’ loss on SportsCenter last night.
Update:
The Chicago Tribune reports that the ESPN employee who wrote the headline has been fired.
