Emily Austen was fired from her role with Fox Sports Florida and Sun Sports as a sideline reporter for the Tampa Bay Rays and Orlando Magic after she made some racist comments during a live web video with Barstool Sports.
Barstool Sports is well known in the online sports community for their edgy humor and for pushing the envelope. It is that environment that Austen now seems to be blaming for her comments.
Austen issued an apology on Sunday, via Twitter, and in that apology she blames “an environment where [she] was trying to be funny and make a joke.