Radio host Colin Cowherd will no longer appear on ESPN after he made comments questioning the intelligence of Dominican Republic baseball players, the company said in a statement.
"Colin Cowherd's comments over the past two days do not reflect the values of ESPN or our employees," ESPN said in a statement. "Colin will no longer appear on ESPN."
Cowherd issued an apology later on Twitter.
I did not intend to offend anyone w my comments. I realize my choice of words was poor and not reflective of who I am. I am sorry.
— Colin Cowherd (@ESPN_Colin) July 24, 2015
Cowherd had said on Thursday that he didn't believe baseball was a complex sport, pointing to the face that a third of the sport was from the Dominican Republic, which he said had "not been known, in my lifetime, as having, you know, world-class academic abilities.