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HBO Sports chief apologizes for Artie Lange's language

The chief of HBO Sports on Tuesday apologized for a series of profanities uttered by comic Artie Lange during the launch of new sports talk show anchored by Joe Buck Monday night. Meanwhile, Lange insisted during another outburst on Howard Stern's Sirius-XM radio show Tuesday that HBO had urged him to go "nuts."

Lange - also a regular on the "Late Show with David Letterman" and other late...

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