Foot-in-Mouth Disease Claims Another Victim

Oklahoma University baseball coach Larry Cochell resigned yesterday because of the fallout from using a racial slur during an off-camera interview with ESPN earlier in the week.

According to ESPN, Cochell, who is white (obviously), used the slur while praising outfielder Joe Dunigan, who is black. The network reported that he said, “There is no very bad word in him.”

Later in the interview, Cochell said “There are honkies and white people, and there are very bad word and black people. Dunigan is a good black kid.”

Cochell had been the Sooners’ coach since 1991, winning a College World Series in 1994.

Shockingly, there has been no comment yet from the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

It never ceases to amaze me how people still say things like this publicly.

Here’s a link to the USA Today story.