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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Former ESPN editor Anthony Federico told the New York Daily News that he did not intend to use a racial slur when he wrote his now infamous \u201Cchink in the amor\u201D headline about Jeremy Lin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"This had nothing to do with me being cute or punny,\" Anthony Federico told the Daily News.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I'm so sorry that I offended people. I'm so sorry if I offended Jeremy.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"My faith is my life,\" he said. \"I'd love to tell Jeremy what happened and explain that this was an honest mistake.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The headline, which appeared on ESPN\u2019s mobile website early Saturday morning resulted in Federico\u2019s firing as well as much media scrutiny aimed at the sports network.\u00A0 It was written following the New York Knicks' first loss since Asian-American Jeremy Lin had emerged as the team\u2019s starting point guard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lin told the press yesterday that he was not upset about the headline.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CHave to learn to forgive, and I don\u2019t even think that was intentional,\u201D he said, according to the Los Angeles Times. \u201COr hopefully not.\u201D\n&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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