Sports in Brief: Imus lands in hot water again

Just months after returning to the airwaves with a pledge to mend the wounds caused by his racist and sexist comment about Rutgers' women's basketball team,  Don Imus  is again drawing fire for injecting race into his radio show. During an on-air conversation yesterday about the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback  Adam Jones,  Imus asked, "What color is he?" Told by sports announcer  Warner Wolf  that Jones, who is better known as "Pacman," is "African American," Imus responded: "There you go.

Now we know." Later, Imus responded to criticism of his comments, saying he had been misunderstood. "I meant that he was being picked on because he's black," Imus said in a statement through a spokesman. The on-air exchange came six months after Imus' return to work on a new show on WABC-AM following his firing from MSNBC and CBS Radio for his remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball ...