NC State broadcaster Gary Hahn will be reinstated following an insensitive remark about "illegal aliens" he made during the team's 16-12 loss to Maryland in the Duke's Mayo Bowl on Friday, Dec. 30.
While providing a score update on the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas during the broadcast, Hahn made a remark about "illegal aliens" in the city.
"Amongst all the illegal aliens down in El Paso, it's UCLA 14, Pittsburgh 6," Hahn said. "That's with 11:15 to go in the second quarter."
Immediately after the game, Wolfpack Sports Properties general manager Kyle Winchester announced that Hahn would be suspended indefinitely for his remarks. On Wednesday, Learfield provided a statement in which it announced that Hahn would be reinstated.
With NC State's football season now completed, Hahn will resume his duties calling Wolfpack basketball games, which he has done for over three decades.
The Sun Bowl fan fest was canceled last week because the city of El Paso is using its convention center to house around 1,000 immigrants. El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser declared a state of emergency earlier this month, and the convention center was converted into a shelter for immigrants released by federal immigration officials with unusually cold weather bearing down on the region.
