{"id":13266,"date":"2013-02-20T09:24:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2013-02-20T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:31:10","slug":"und-suspends-sports-radio-announcer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13266","title":{"rendered":"UND Suspends Sports Radio Announcer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/undlogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13306\" title=\"undlogo\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/undlogo-300x204.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/undlogo-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/undlogo-431x294.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/undlogo-256x175.png 256w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/undlogo.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The University of North Dakota says it has suspended men&#8217;s basketball play-by-play radio announcer Paul Ralston for two games due to comments he made after Saturday&#8217;s game against Northern Arizona.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Grand Forks Herald reports\u00a0 that Ralston used the words &#8220;choke job&#8221; in his interview session with UND coach Brian Jones after the team&#8217;s 74-72 overtime loss at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota held a narrow lead in the final minute of regulation, but Northern Arizona rallied to force overtime and win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Athletic director Brian Faison says Ralston will not call UND&#8217;s Big Sky Conference game at Northern Colorado on Wednesday or the Bracketbuster game Saturday at Nebraska-Omaha.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Associate athletic director Kyle Doperalski will handle the play-by-play duties for those games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The University of North Dakota says it has suspended men&#8217;s basketball play-by-play radio announcer Paul Ralston for two games due to comments he made after Saturday&#8217;s game against Northern Arizona. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Grand Forks Herald reports\u00a0 that Ralston used the words &#8220;choke job&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13309,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions\/13309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}