{"id":34168,"date":"2025-02-23T16:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/arizona-apologize-for-anti-mormon-chants-after-teams-loss-to-byu\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T16:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:57:51","slug":"arizona-apologize-for-anti-mormon-chants-after-teams-loss-to-byu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/arizona-apologize-for-anti-mormon-chants-after-teams-loss-to-byu\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona apologize for anti-Mormon chants after team\u2019s loss to BYU"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Cougars upset win came after controversial calls<\/li>\n<li>Around 98% of BYU students are Mormons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arizona have apologized after some of the team\u2019s fans directed abuse at BYU after the Cougars\u2019 upset victory over the Wildcats on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The game, in Arizona\u2019s home arena, ended in controversy after a number of calls went BYU\u2019s way. As the players left the court chants of \u201cFuck the Mormons\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheCougChron\/status\/1893550567558922557\">could be heard<\/a> around the McKale Center. Around 98% of BYU\u2019s student body are Mormons and the university is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/23\/arizona-byu-mormon-chants-ncaa-basketball\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cougars upset win came after controversial calls Around 98% of BYU students are Mormons Arizona have apologized after some of the team\u2019s fans directed abuse at BYU after the Cougars\u2019 upset victory over the Wildcats on Saturday. The game, in Arizona\u2019s home arena, ended in controversy after a number of calls went BYU\u2019s way. As &#8230; <a title=\"Arizona apologize for anti-Mormon chants after team\u2019s loss to BYU\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/arizona-apologize-for-anti-mormon-chants-after-teams-loss-to-byu\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Arizona apologize for anti-Mormon chants after team\u2019s loss to BYU\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}