ACC Sorry For Profanity-Laced Blunder In Media Guide
PINEHURST, N.C. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference has apologized for a sentence with two expletives that appeared on a page in its football media guide.
Spokeswoman Amy Yakola said the league "appropriately updated" online versions to remove the all-caps sentence, "F--- THIS S---." The league pulled printed copies not already distributed at the ACC Kickoff media days.
It is unclear how the mistake occurred.
On Twitter, the reaction was predictable:
Some quality-control problems in the ACC Media Guide. https://t.co/koKxrL7b4L
— Paul Lukas (@UniWatch) July 21, 2015
2015 ACC Football: pic.twitter.com/IM284iFM6R
— Joe Ovies (@joeovies) July 20, 2015
In March, the ACC men's basketball tournament program listed North Carolina State as "UNC State" — partly an abbreviation for rival North Carolina — throughout a stats page. The league said it was an editing mistake by its program provider using a computer's find-replace function.
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