High school announcer caught by hot mic blames racist outburst on high blood sugar

• Announcer used racial slur for girls' team who knelt for anthem
• Incident happened before Oklahoma high school playoff game
• Broadcaster blames racist comments on diabetes in statement

An announcer for a live stream of an Oklahoma girls' high school basketball game cursed and called one team by a racial epithet as the players knelt during the national anthem, then suggested his diabetes was to blame for the episode in a statement expressing his regret.

The incident occurred Thursday before the Norman High School-Midwest City quarter-final game in Sapulpa as the Star-Spangled Banner began to play. The broadcasters told their listeners on the NFHS Network stream they would return after a break and then one, apparently not realizing the audio was still live, used an expletive and the epithet as the Norman players knelt.