Wake Forest and baseball coach Tom Walter apologized for what appeared to be a homophobic slur caught by television cameras during an NCAA regional game against Tennessee.

Federal prosecutors have promised to drop their case against a former Wake Forest University coach charged in the college admissions bribery scandal if he pays a $50,000 fine and follows certain conditions.

(AP) Hackers used racist language and anti-Semitic images to disrupt an online meeting of Wake Forest University employees, the schools president said. In a message posted to the school's website, Nathan Hatch said about 500 Wake Forest staff members were on a Zoom call on Wednesday when unidentified hackers disrupted it, the Winston-Salem Journal reported Thursday. The universitys information technology staff is trying to track down the origin of the attack, Hatch said, adding that it appears that the hackers gained access to the meeting from a link posted publicly online that also contained the meetings password. Last September, a number of Wake Forest professors and staff members received racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic emails that called for the purging of ethnic minorities and LGBT students. School employees who got the emails worked in the universitys sociology and gender studies departments and in offices and centers that work on diversity matters.

The 28-year-old was announced as the first-ever black Bachelor on Good Morning Americaon Friday, after days of calls from fans -- and former BacheloretteRachel Lindsay for the franchise to diversify amid the Black Lives Matter movement. In addition to being the first black Bachelor, James is also the first Bachelor in 12 years to be cast without previously appearing on The Bachelorette. Season 12's Matt Grant was the last man to be cast as Bachelor from outside the franchise, back in 2008. James has also spoken out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and attended protests fighting for racial equality. If you can positively influence these students at this age, you can potentially change the course of their lives," James told DeacLink.