From the New York Times:

ESPN Drops Colin Cowherd After Remarks on Dominicans By RICHARD SANDOMIR JULY 24, 2015 Pedro Guerrero, Dominican scholar-athlete ESPN dropped the radio host Colin Cowherd on Friday, hours after he had clumsily tried to explain comments he made on his show Thursday that seemed to denigrate the intelligence of Dominicans in baseball. … During his program Thursday, Cowherd questioned those who said baseball was complex. “Like I’ve never bought into that ‘Baseball’s just too complex,’ ” he said. “Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic.” ESPN initially said the remarks were “inappropriate,” but later Friday it released a new statement saying Cowherd would no longer appear on the network. … On Friday, Cowherd excoriated the editing of his remarks. On his show, he replayed his remarks in full; they included his statements that the Dominican Republic lacked “world-class academic abilities” and that “a lot of those kids come from rough backgrounds and have not had opportunities academically that other kids from other countries have.” Then, to explain his position, he offered statistics from reports by the World Bank and other organizations that outlined education problems in the Dominican Republic.

Uh oh, he cited HateStats.

Here’s an article I found from ten years ago on DR’s levels of educational achievement:

SANTO DOMINGO.- Only 50% of the students who enter the first grade in the Dominican Republic reach to complete just four years, 22% complete the eight year elementary cycle and only 10% finish secondary schooling, figures which place Dominican Republic among the countries with the highest school dropout rates.

By the way, here’s Jason Malloy’s meta-analysis on the handful of IQ studies of Dominicans.

But knowing HateStats, must less mentioning them, is unforgivable. And so he’s gone.

It added, “Colin’s on-air response today addressed the importance of making sure his opinions are fact-based and responsible for all people.”

But not too fact-based.

My favorite Dominican ballplayer of all time was L.A. Dodgers 1980s slugger Pedro Guerrero, who got acquitted on a cocaine distribution charge in 2000 by reason of stupidity. The AP reported: