WLW’s Bill Cunningham didn't mention Bob Huggins’ remark on Tuesday’s show

Talk show host Bill Cunningham began his WLW-AM (700) radio show Tuesday at noon talking with former Cincinnati City Council member Christopher Smitherman about the city’s pension.

In the first segment Tuesday, Cunningham made no mention of Monday’s show in which his guest, West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins, used a homophobic slur on the air to describe Xavier University fans and denigrated Catholics.

Despite news of Huggins' comments making national headlines, the incident has not been extensively reported during WLW's news breaks, nor was it discussed Monday night during the station's Sports Talk program hosted by Lance McAlister.

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Huggins, who coached the University of Cincinnati men's basketball program from 1989-2005, was talking about a previous Crosstown Shootout game between UC and Xavier when he made the disparaging remark during Monday’s broadcast of Cunningham’s show.

Cunningham did not comment on the air at the time, and he didn’t address the incident at the start of his show Tuesday either.

Hours after Monday’s show, Huggins issued an apology and said, “I used a completely insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there is simply no excuse for.”

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