Fox News Anchor Who Called UConn 'NAACP Champs' Says She 'Misspoke'

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Fox News Anchor Who Called UConn 'NAACP Champs' Says She 'Misspoke'
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If you missed Monday night's big sports news (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/uconn-wins-march-madness/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), the University of Connecticut men's basketball team won the 2014 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) championship

Er, scratch that — UConn won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship with its 60-54 victory over Kentucky

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Fox News anchor Heather Childers, however, congratulated the Huskies for winning the NAACP championship in a Tuesday morning episode of Fox & Friends First (see video above)

Childers got the acronym right on a second pass and, on Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), she insisted the mix-up was a simple slip of the tongue Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/uconn-fox-news-naacp-champs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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