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The play-by-play announcer said Westbrook was 'out of his cotton-picking mind' The Oklahoma City Thunder suspended play-by-play announcer Brian Davis for one game following his racially insensitive comment about Thunder star Russell Westbrook. During the Thunder's final regular-season game on Wednesday night, Davis said that Westbrook was "out of his cotton-picking mind" following a nifty assist by the guard.

IBM seems to have made a bit of a faux pas with a campaign that was supposed to encourage more women to work in science and technology. But women in the industry are pretty insulted with the computer giant's online campaign asking women to use a hairdyer of all things to experiment with. They tweeted a video (which has since been deleted) explaining that less than three in ten science and engineering jobs are held by women. So the idea was probably in good faith, but in future they may want to get a second opinion on how best to...

In what might be called political correctness v. menu tradition, round 2, the Blue Parrot restaurant in Louisville has decided not to rename the 88-year-old item it has always called a wopburger. "We've had so many people coming in and calling us, telling us 'I can't believe you're changing the name. Please don't change the name,'" said Joan Riggins, who owns the restaurant with her father, Joseph Colacci and her brother Richard Colacci. Riggins says her family knows that "when certain words are used a certain way, they can be derogatory in context." "But that was never meant to be...