ESPN analyst Bucky Waters was forced by the network to sit out Wednesday's Virginia Tech–Virginia broadcast after he praised a nine-steal performance by a UConn guard back on January 8 thusly: "It was a holdup, it was a mugging, and I don't know if he's going out after this and hit a couple a couple of convenience stores or not, but he had some night here." Waters' remarks, which he later characterized as "stupid," came just four days after Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman joked that young players trying to challenge Tiger Woods should "lynch him in a back alley." Of course, sports broadcasters have a long and colorful history of saying dumb shit.

Radar looks back at 10 of the best examples:

• While on the Dan Patrick radio show, former Dallas Cowboy wide receiver and ESPN analyst Michael Irvin explained the athleticism of current Cowboy quarterback (and Jessica Simpson–doer) Tony Romo by noting that maybe his "great, great, great, great-Grandma pulled one of them studs up outta the barn." Irvin later called his remarks "inappropriate and insensitive"; he was eventually canned.

• After a fourth consecutive loss by the San Francisco Giants, radioman Larry Krueger said, "A truly awful, pathetic, old team that only promises to be worse two years from now. It's just awful and bad to watch. Brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly.'' He was fired.

• In a conversation with boothmate Lou Piniella regarding Piniella finding his missing wallet, Fox's Steve Lyons bizarrely said that Lou was "hablaing Espanol ... I still can't find my wallet. I don't understand him, and I don't want to sit close to him now." Lyons, who once criticized Jewish outfielder Shawn Green for sitting out a game on Yom Kippur by saying, "He's not even a practicing Jew. He didn't marry a Jewish girl. And from what I understand, he never had a bar mitzvah, which is unfortunate because he doesn't get the money," was fired.

• In an attempt to explain the difference in physical abilities between black and white athletes, CBS football analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder remarked that the black athlete is "bred to be a better athlete, this goes back all the way to the Civil War, when during the slave trading, the owner—the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid." "The Greek" was promptly sacked.

• ESPNU color commentator Brian Kinchen was taken off the air for one game after explaining that receivers need to make catches with their hands because they are "tender" and can "caress" the ball." He then paused before adding, "That's kinda of gay, but hey ..."

• Pill-popping conservative windbag Rush Limbaugh resigned from his post on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown pregame show after saying that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb only got good press because "the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

• Speed Channel announcer Ray Dunlap was suspended for one race after responding to the claim that 10 percent of the NASCAR fan base is Hispanic or Latino with something to the effect of, "Yeah, right. The only Hispanics you see at a racetrack are the ones working there," and then babbling in German. (Sadly, no tape exists.)

• Minnesota Vikings radio play-by-play announcer Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton resigned after, among other things, referring to former New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu as a "fat Jap" and asking on-air if "blacks are more likely to abuse their spouses than other races." He also recommended that black football player Lawrence Phillips be "lynched" and "strung up" for off-the-field transgressions.

• CBS basketball analyst Billy Packer apologized for calling Georgetown guard Allen Iverson a "tough monkey," though neither Iverson nor coach John Thompson took offense. (Packer later went on to accuse Charlie Rose of "fagging out" on him in an interview.) Howard Cosell took heat for making a similar remark about Washington Redskins wide receiver Alvin Garrett during a Monday Night Football telecast in 1983; he resigned the year after.