Hockey Icon Don Cherry Fired for Calling Immigrants ‘You People’
- Don Cherry will step down from Sportsnet after televised rant
- Comments have sparked ire from Candian public, politicians
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Sportsnet, the sports media arm of Rogers Communications Inc., has fired Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry after he referred to immigrants as “You people.”
“Sports brings people together -- it unites us, not divides us,” Sportsnet President Bart Yabsley said in a statement Monday afternoon. “Following further discussions with Don Cherry after Saturday night’s broadcast, it has been decided it is the right time for him to immediately step down. During the broadcast, he made divisive remarks that do not represent our values or what we stand for.”