ESPN dropped Colin Cowherd from on-air programming a week before he is leaving the company to join Fox Sports after the radio host made controversial comments about Dominican-born baseball players. Cowherd argued on his show Thursday that baseball is not a complex sport, and used Dominican players as the punchline for a joke.
“I’ve never bought into that ‘baseball is too complex.’ Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic.”
After many Dominican-born players and others called out Cowherd for his take, he offered an apology on Twitter and tried to clarify his comments.