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47of74

(18,470 posts) Fri Feb 22, 2019, 03:17 PM Feb 2019

Gary Dolphin put his foot in his mouth again

Probably time for him to consider retirement

Longtime radio voice Gary Dolphin has been suspended from broadcasting Iowa basketball games for the rest of the season.

The action comes following comments that Dolphin made during the postgame portion of Iowa’s radio broadcast of Tuesday’s home game against Maryland, in which he referred to the Terrapins’ Bruno Fernando, who is black, as “King Kong.”

The suspension, announced by Learfield Sports Properties (which owns the rights to Hawkeye broadcasts), is for basketball only. Dolphin has been Iowa’s play-by-play voice of Iowa football, as he has for the past 22 years.

This marks the second on-air incident this basketball season that put Dolphin in hot water publicly.

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Gary Dolphin put his foot in his mouth again (Original Post) 47of74 Feb 2019 OP

Can't stand Dolphin rurallib Feb 2019 #1

rurallib

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1. Can't stand Dolphin

Reply to 47of74 (Original post)

Fri Feb 22, 2019, 03:34 PM

Feb 2019

used to prefer to listen to games on the radio until they hired Dolphin.
Wouldn't bother me a bit to see him go.

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