Don Imus

Radio personality Don Imus addresses the audience at New York's Town Hall during his return to radio Monday, Dec. 3, 2007. Imus returned to the airwaves eight months after he was fired for a racial remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team.

Don Imus, left, acknowledges audience applause and that of producer Bernard McGuirk at New York's Town Hall during his return to radio Monday morning Dec. 3, 2007. His return completed a comeback that seemed improbable at the height of the uproar in the spring of 2007 over his calling the Rutgers women basketball players "nappy-headed hos."

Talk show host Don Imus waits for the Rev. Al Sharpton while appearing on Sharpton's radio show to talk about racially charged comments Imus made, April 9, 2007, in New York. Imus reached a settlement with CBS Aug. 14, 2007, over his multimillion-dollar contract and is in negotiations to resume his broadcasting career. The settlement pre-empts the fired DJ's threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit.

Radio show host Don Imus waits for the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show to begin, where Imus talked about complaints that he made racially charged comments in a recent broadcast, Monday, April 9, 2007, in New York. On his April 4 show, Imus referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team, which had lost the national championship game the day before, as "nappy-headed hos." CBS fired Imus from his radio show on April 12.

Radio host Don Imus arrives at his Manhattan residence Friday, April 13, 2007, in New York. Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer said the team had accepted radio host Don Imus' apology. She said he deserves a chance to move on but hopes the furor his racist and sexist insult caused will be a catalyst for change.

Radio host Don Imus leaves his residence, Thursday, April 12, 2007, in New York. CBS fired Imus from his radio program Thursday, capping a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters. Imus initially was given a two-week suspension for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air, but outrage continued to grow and advertisers bolted from his show.

Don Imus, at left on steps, leaves the governor's mansion in Princeton Township, N.J., Thursday, April 12, 2007, after meeting with the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Imus was fired Thursday from his CBS radio show over remarks he made on the air about the team. Imus left without commenting to reporters, but C. Vivian Stringer, the team's coach, said the meeting was "productive."

Don Imus talks with the Rev. Al Sharpton on Sharpton's radio show over charges that Imus made racially charged comments in a recent broadcast, Monday, April 9, 2007, in New York. "What I did was make a stupid, idiotic mistake in a comedy context," Imus said on his show Tuesday, April 10, 2007. MSNBC decided April 11 that it would drop the television simulcast of Imus' show.

Don Imus talks with the Rev. Al Sharpton on Sharpton's radio show over complaints Imus made racially charged comments in a recent broadcast, Monday, April 9, 2007, in New York. Imus found himself at the center of a storm after his comments. Protests ensued, and one by one, sponsors pulled their ads from his show.

Radio personality Don Imus, right, waves goodbye to Rev. Al Sharpton, left, after they appeared face-to-face on Rev. Sharpton's radio show, in New York Monday, April 9, 2007. Imus issued another apology for referring to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" on his morning show last week.

Rev. Al Sharpton talks to the press after he and radio personality Don Imus appeared face-to-face on Rev. Sharpton's radio show, in New York Monday, April 9, 2007. Sharpton and Jesse Jackson met with CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves to advocate Imus' removal.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, leads a group of protestors calling for the firing of talk show host Don Imus for offensive comments he made about the Rutgers women's basketball team, outside of the NBC Tower Monday, April 9, 2007 in Chicago. MSNBC announced it was dropping the simulcast of Imus' show two days later.

Don Imus, in an image from video, on the set of his nationally syndicated talk show, Tuesday, April 10, 2007. Time Magazine once named the cantankerous broadcaster as one of the 25 Most Influential People in America, and he was a member of the National Broadcaster Hall of Fame.

Radio personality Don Imus, right, talks with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., then a Republican presidential hopeful, and his wife Cindy, at a Washington hotel Tuesday, Oct. 26, 1999, prior to the Don Imus Roast to benefit the Spina Bifida Association of America.

Professional wrestler Hollywood Hulk Hogan, right, and radio talk show host Don Imus ham it up after Hogan appeared on Imus' show to present a check from Ted Turner for Imus' children's cancer ranch Friday, Nov. 13, 1998, in Atlanta.

Don Imus is seen in New York, Monday March 25, 1996, a few days after Imus joked about President Bill Clinton's alleged sexual affairs, and about Hillary Clinton's financial doings with the Clintons present at a Washington dinner. At the time, Imus called his critics "morons, gutless, weasels." He said he hadn't tried to humiliate anyone, and he argued that some of his jokes were "misconstrued."

President Bill Clinton, left, covers his face as radio personality Don Imus pokes fun at him and other politicians at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association annual dinner in Washington, Thursday, March 21, 1996.

Nationally syndicated radio personality Don Imus speaks at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in Washington in a file photo from March 21, 1996. The Rev. Al Sharpton and Don Imus were due to face-off Monday, April 9, 2007 on the radio, less than a week after Imus made racially charged comments on his own show.

A May 1987 photo of disk jockey Don Imus.

Don Imus, with a bar of soap in his mouth, in a 1976 promotional photo.