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Hot mic catches NSFW message after Duke player cuts hand during Elite Eight game
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A hot mic caught something live on the air during ABC’s coverage of the South Carolina-Duke women’s Elite Eight game that was probably, well, a bit inappropriate for the moment.
After Duke junior guard Taina Mair suffered a cut on her hand, there was some real bloodshed. As in, there was blood shed on the court in Birmingham, Ala., where the defending national champion Gamecocks were battling the Blue Devils on Sunday afternoon for the right to get to the Final Four.
Obviously, the court had to be cleaned, so there was a stoppage of play as the South Carolina and Duke players waited to resume the game. The Gamecocks are the top seed in the region, while the Blue Devils are the 2 seed, so this was a showdown between women’s college basketball powerhouses.
But then things got ugly with Mair’s accidental injury, the blood was on the court, and the cleanup was set to begin. Then things got uglier with that message caught on the hot microphone, when somebody yelled for the cleanup crew to “clean the whole goddamn court.”
This unfortunate incident happened very early in Sunday’s game, but it set a messy tone as the Gamecocks and Blue Devils played to keep their seasons alive. Fortunately, Mair was tended to on the bench by a trainer and the game went on, with a clean court free of blood in Birmingham.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
