{"id":12465,"date":"2025-10-19T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/12465\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:26:11","slug":"sharks-apologize-for-fans-message-on-hispanic-heritage-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/12465\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks apologize for fan&#8217;s message on Hispanic Heritage Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/sj\/san-jose-sharks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Sharks were holding their ninth annual celebration of Hispanic heritage on what they call &#8220;Los Tiburones Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; The San Jose Sharks apologized for a message that was displayed on the videoboard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11375,750,112,114,113,100,404,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-12465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-11375","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-san-jose-sharks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}