The New York Times reports:
West Virginia University said it was reviewing and would later address the homophobic comments that its men’s basketball coach, the Hall of Famer Bob Huggins, made on Monday during a live radio interview.
Appearing on the Cincinnati station 700WLW’s “Bill Cunningham Show,” Huggins was discussing his 16-season tenure with the University of Cincinnati and the school’s intracity rivalry with Xavier University.
In recalling a Crosstown Shootout game between the schools, he twice called Xavier fans a homophobic slur, saying they would “throw rubber penises on the floor and then say they didn’t do it.”
Yahoo Sports reports:
Longtime West Virginia men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins apologized Monday afternoon after he used an anti-gay slur during an appearance on a Cincinnati sports radio show. Huggins, in a statement released through the school, said he used “a completely insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there is simply no excuse for.”
One of the show hosts made a comment that it was “transgender night” at the game Huggins was referring to — which allegedly came when he was coaching at Cincinnati and Xavier fans threw sex toys onto the court.
That’s when Huggins used the anti-gay slur. “What it was was all those f**s, those Catholic f**s, I think,” Huggins said. “They were envious they didn’t have one.” The show hosts then closed the interview by laughing and saying Huggins was “the best.”
— WVU Men’s Basketball (@WVUhoops) May 8, 2023
⚠️ Here’s the audio of Bob Huggins calling Xavier fans “Catholic f–s” during an appearance on Bill Cunningham’s WLW radio show in Cincinnati pic.twitter.com/JTftGx9rQE
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 8, 2023