The press box at FIU Stadium just got a little louder.
Former CNN host Rick Sanchez will call Florida International University football games starting this fall, CBSMiami.com reports.
The Miami university is picked to win the Sun Belt conference this year, which means that Sanchez should have plenty of reasons to get excited this season.
Sanchez was fired from CNN last October for saying on the air that Jon Stewart is a bigot, and for implying that Jews run the media.
“Yeah, very powerless people. He’s such a minority,” Sanchez said in 2010. “I mean, you know, please. What — are you kidding? I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart. And to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority?”
Sanchez made his controversial comments during a conversation with comedian Pete Dominick on satellite radio.
Jorge Sedano, the man Sanchez is replacing, found the whole situation laughable, despite losing his position. (ALSO IN MEDIA: Fox limits online streaming to paying subscribers)
“I do have to be honest. I did LOL when I heard about the Rick Sanchez news. I mean come on? That’s hysterical. No?” Sedano tweeted.