An Oklahoma man was awarded $25 million after a jury found that the state’s largest newspaper defamed him when he was mistakenly identified as a high school basketball announcer who made racist comments during a 2021 game broadcast. Scott Sapulpa was awarded $5 million in actual damages and another $20 million in punitive damages in…
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News On this day in history, January 12, 1951, radio legend Rush Limbaugh is ‘born to be a broadcaster’ in Missouri
Legendary American broadcaster Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri to a prominent local family on this day in history, Jan. 12, 1951. “He was born to be a radio broadcaster,” Limbaugh’s younger brother, David Limbaugh, told Fox News Digital. “Our father instilled in us a love for America, its founding institutions,…
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News Axed MLB broadcaster Thom Brennaman found silver lining in life after firing: ‘I’m totally good’
At the height of maybe the most tense era in several generations in the United States, former MLB and NFL broadcaster Thom Brennaman was caught using a homophobic slur on a hot mic Aug. 19, 2020. The incident resulted in the viral “drive into deep left by [Nick] Castellanos” meme. And Brenneman has not called…
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News Longtime Bruins, Red Sox broadcaster Tom Larson dead at 84
Lanny Lee Larson, better known by Tom Larson, whose sports broadcasting career spanned nearly four decades, died this week in Virginia, his family confirmed to the Boston Globe. Larson was 84. Larson had previously been diagnosed with cancer. The former longtime Boston Bruins and Boston Red Sox television host famously vowed to forgo shaving his…
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