Fox Sports Cancels Show That Mocked Asian USC Students
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Fox Sports canceled a show that aired a segment that mocked Asian students who were filmed on the University of Southern California campus.
Fox Sports Network spokesman Lou D'Ermilio said in a statement that last week's segment was "clearly offensive" and that the show "The College Experiment" would be cancelled effective immediately.
The Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, Colo. reported (http://goo.gl/RmKAE ) about the video and the network issued an apology. The video shows a comedian approaching Asian students at USC and asking them to welcome the universities of Colorado and Utah to the Pac-12 Conference. The comedian tells the students to give the new Pac-12 members an "All-American welcome" and then mocks students' accents.
D'Ermilio says the video was removed as soon as the network became aware of it.
