North Carolina State University sports broadcaster Gary Hahn was suspended Friday for an “illegal alien” comment made on air during Duke’s Mayo Bowl.
This event, in which the NC State Wolfpack lost to the Maryland Terrapins, took place in Charlotte. But during the game, Hahn gave the Sun Bowl score in El Paso: “Among all the illegal aliens in El Paso, it’s UCLA 14 and Pittsburgh 6.”
Khan’s employer, Learfield Communications, told the Fayetteville Observer after the game that he would be taken off the air indefinitely.
NC State has not commented on the incident.
The school’s website notes that Hahn has been the radio voice of Wolfpack football and basketball since the 1990-91 season, part of a career that began in 1970.
The El Paso City Council last week extended the state of emergency as the community faces a growing number of migrants sleeping on the streets, sometimes in freezing conditions, the El Paso Times reported.
Many are in the city legally as asylum seekers, the paper said.
“People crossing come from all parts of the world to escape economic devastation and extreme crime,” the city’s website says, adding that they are trying to provide “food and water, connectivity, transportation assistance and temporary shelter if necessary’.
As a result, the Sun Bowl Fan Fiesta was canceled because the convention center was being used as temporary housing for the migrants, KTSM reported.
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