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Penn fires Barstool host
Penn Entertainment’s purchase of Barstool Sports is showing signs of growing pains. Barstool host Ben Mintz was fired by Penn for saying a racial slur as part of a song lyric during a livestream last week. Barstool president Dave Portnoy announced the news on Twitter – and this is key – added that Penn made the decisio