Sports shorts: Fox apologizes for Pac-12 segment mocking Asians

BOULDER, Colo. - Fox Sports said Wednesday it canceled a show that aired a segment that mocked Asian students who were filmed on the Southern California campus.

Fox Sports Network spokesman Lou D'Ermilio said in a statement that last week's segment was "clearly offensive and inconsistent with the standards Fox Sports believes in, and we sincerely regret that it appeared." He said the show that aired the video, "The College Experiment" would be canceled effective immediately.

The Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, Colo. reported 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. 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. He said "there was a breakdown in our internal processes" and that the network is taking steps to make sure an "incident of this nature is not repeated in the future."

High SchoolS

Seattle team refuses to take field

SEATTLE - Garfield High School in Seattle is investigating why its football team forfeited its season opening game at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland.

The Garfield team refused to take the field Friday after coach Kelvin Goliday was ejected.

The Seattle Times reports Goliday had called a timeout to tell officials he wanted them to blow whistles quicker as a safety issue - to protect players from being hurt. Goliday says when they wouldn't discuss it, he kept the Garfield players on the sideline. He was ejected and the referees called a forfeit for Lake Washington, which was leading 14-0 at the time in the third quarter.

GYMNASTICS

Hamm accused of hitting cabbie

UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio - Olympic gymnastics champion Paul Hamm has been accused of hitting and kicking a taxi driver in suburban Columbus, damaging a cab window and refusing to pay a $23 fare.

The 28-year-old Hamm can be heard on an Upper Arlington police video telling an officer he'd had about eight drinks, WBNS-TV in Columbus reported. As Hamm sits handcuffed in the back of a cruiser, he asks officers to let him go and says, "I don't understand. I'm gonna kill you guys."

Hamm, who is working as an assistant coach at Ohio State while he trains for the London Olympics, is charged with assault and two other misdemeanors.

Miscellaneous

Finch to run in NYC marathon

NEW YORK - Former UA softball star Jennie Finch will run the New York City Marathon for charity.

Finch, 31, gave birth to her second son in June. On Nov. 6, she'll start last in the field, and sponsor Timex will donate $1 to New York Road Runners' youth programs for each person she passes. It will be Finch's first marathon. She ran a half-marathon while 20 weeks pregnant.

• Former junior welterweight champion Arturo Gatti was murdered two years ago in Brazil, a panel of forensic evidence experts said Wednesday as it presented the results of a 10-month investigation initiated to challenge the official version that Gatti committed suicide.

Brazilian authorities initially considered Gatti's wife a prime suspect and arrested her, but released her soon after and concluded Gatti had hung himself with a handbag strap.

• NBA owners and players met for about 5 1/2 hours Wednesday, plan to resume negotiations today, and could even sit down again Friday. While neither side would say if progress is being made, the frequency of the discussions seems a good sign.

• The Pima College volleyball team (0-3) was swept at home by Glendale on Wednesday night. Set scores were 25-16, 25-11, 25-18.

• British rider Christopher Froome won the 17th stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Wednesday, beating overall leader Juan Jose Cobo in a back-and-forth duel on a grueling final uphill climb.

Includes material from a news release