Kasey Funderburg resigned Thursday after tweets of her allegedly using the n-word surfaced.
The former University of Tennessee sports reporter had reportedly fired off an angry response after seeing a tweet asking Tennessee fans not only to wear all black but “to paint their face all black as well.” “It’s disgusting that this person thinks putting out a joke like this is okay,” she tweeted.
Not the best thing to say when she never went back and deleted her old tweets. Another Twitter user responded with racist tweets from Funderburg’s timeline from 2013 and 2014.
The 26-year-old would soon resign and UT has since removed her from their athletics website. An online petition to get Funderburg her job back garnered more than 1,000 signatures before closing.
“A Tennessee athletic department spokesperson told Knox News that she resigned from that role on Thursday. The 26-year-old UT graduate also served as an on-air host for VFL Films and weekly coaches call-in show “Vol Calls.” Her profile page on the UT website has been deleted.
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She will be replaced as the radio sideline reporter by former Vols player and Knoxville radio personality Jayson Swain.
Funderburg, the UT graduate, also served as an on-air personality for VFL Films and “Vol Calls,” the popular weekly call-in show for UT coaches.
