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By Bob Raissman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Jeremy Lin keeps the Linsanity going with a career-high 13 assists Wednesday night vs. Kings at the Garden. Time Warner Cable subscribers tuning in ESPN expecting to see Friday's Hornets-Knicks game won't like what

UPDATE: ESPN has fired the employee responsible for the offensive headline "Chink in the Armor." The network has suspended the anchor who also used the phrase, the Associated Press reports.

As if the cheering section wasn't big enough, Jeremy Lin will have a few more in the crowd this weekend. ESPN is in hot water because of a racial slur that was featured in an article on its website. The subject of the article was New York Knicks and

ESPN says it fired an employee responsible for an offensive headline about Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin.

And in this case, Saturday Night Live perfectly captured the problems with some insensitive media portrayals of the New York Knicks rising star point guard Jeremy Lin. This skit came on the heels of a highly inappropriate ESPN headline that used a

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