{"id":224689,"date":"2025-10-19T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224689\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:50:08","slug":"sharks-apologize-for-fans-message-on-hispanic-heritage-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224689\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks apologize for fan&#8217;s message on Hispanic Heritage Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 19, 2025, 12:46 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/sj\/san-jose-sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> apologized for a message that was displayed on the videoboard that appeared to praise Immigration and Customs Enforcement on a night the team celebrated Hispanic heritage.<\/p>\n<p>A message from a fan was shown on the videoboard during the first intermission of San Jose&#8217;s game against Pittsburgh on Saturday night that read, &#8220;SJ SHARKS FANS\/LOVE ICE !!\/GET &#8216;EM BOYZ !&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks issued an apology later in the game, saying &#8220;an offensively worded message which had been externally submitted was inadvertently displayed on the in-arena scoreboard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sharks Sports &amp; Entertainment deeply regrets that this message, which does not meet our organization&#8217;s values, was not detected during our standard review process,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;The Sharks organization sincerely apologizes for this oversight, and we are actively working to determine the origin of the message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks were holding their ninth annual celebration of Hispanic heritage on what they call &#8220;Los Tiburones Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 19, 2025, 12:46 AM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; The San Jose Sharks apologized for a message&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-224689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}