Don Cherry Finally Goes Too Far
The Lead
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🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Hockey commentator Don Cherry, a Canadian icon, was fired this week over comments he made about immigrants during a television broadcast. Cherry, whose "Coach's Corner" segment has been a staple of Hockey Night In Canada for more than three decades, has a long history of making inflammatory remarks. The Athletic's Sunaya Sapurji joins to explain why this controversy was the last straw for Cherry.
Read Sunaya Sapuri's take on the Don Cherry controversy:
https://theathletic.com/1366564/2019/11/11/its-time-to-say-goodbye-to-don-cherry-and-his-xenophobic-ways/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:00.0 | So, Kavita, I grew up playing hockey in Northern Michigan and spent a lot of weekends over |
| 0:10.9 | the border in Canada. |
| 0:13.2 | Great deals on hockey six there, man, you know, because of the exchange rate. |
| 0:16.2 | My dad was all over that. |
| 0:17.5 | Oh, I mean, trust me, the Davidson's love a great bargain. |
| 0:20.2 | My parents own like seven of the same crock pot just because they were on sale. |
| 0:24.0 | I feel you. |
| 0:25.0 | Anyway, it was always a special treat on those trips to Ontario to watch hockey night in |
| 0:29.5 | Canada. |
| 0:31.1 | But the most memorable part of those broadcasts was often the intermission. |
| 0:41.4 | Why do I do this? |
| 0:42.4 | Why do I do it? |
| 0:43.4 | I do it for the kids that walk in at nine thirty. |
| 0:46.6 | Right. |
| 0:47.6 | Don Cherry, the iconic hockey commentator, has done a segment called coaches corner for more |
| 0:52.4 | than thirty years, featuring his outlandish suits and often inflammatory opinions. |
| 0:59.5 | And then this week, Don Cherry got fired. |
| 1:04.2 | It happened after he made disparaging remarks about immigrants. |
| 1:07.6 | You people love you, you that come here, whatever it is, you love our way of life, you love |
| 1:12.5 | our milk and honey at least. |
| 1:14.6 | But the thing is, Don Cherry has been saying offensive things on Canadian airwaves for decades, |
| 1:20.4 | things that have often alienated certain groups of hockey fans. |
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