However the NFL decides to handle Irsay's situation, I highly doubt he'll be banned for life. As for the legal side, I imagine his lawyers will plea bargain the four counts of felony possession and DUI down to something much smaller.

@ivyleague


are there even any black people in utah for you to be so "conservative"

how are u "conservative" with all the oddball shit that goes on in utah?

read about that....it was allegedly a publicity stunt of some sort...but like you said...real incidents like that happen quite a bit in eastern europe,and Spain. Italy also.

On a related note...Boston Bruins fans flooded social media with racist nonsense after a Black opposing player scored winning goal in overtime of a playoff hockey game.

here's a link from local Boston media

http://bostonherald.com/sports/bruins_nhl/bruins_insider/2014/05/bruins_react_to_racist_tweets

The exact same thing happened to Patrick Ewing at Madison Square Garden in 1985. I know it was almost thirty years ago, but still, so much for New York being the most "tolerant" city in the world.

There is racism in Brazil between the light skinned and dark skinned Brazilians.

On the Basketball owner banned for life? He is 87 years old give or take life can end tommorow for him.

When you get really old your brain doesn't always work right. Not making excuses for him, but it is a fact.

This is what happens when you get old. You can remember what happened 60 years ago like Yestarday. But you can't seem to remember what happened Yestarday.

New York City is tolerant if you live in the city you know that. But, most tolerant I don't know that.

@Footread,

why do I get the suspicion that you are the guy formerly known as cornuto?

Nope sorry

I knew that this happened routinely to Ewing in college.Coach Thompson forfeited at least one game when he walked his team off the court when school officials, refs,etc would NOT or could NOT get some racist signs removed from the facility...

Older guy who worked as a security guard at the school I went to told me this story. Ewing's sister was a grad student there...Georgetown comes in to play..his sister had to watch her fellow students and probably people that she went to class with yell all sorts of racist stuff, throw things at, and hold up racist signs directed at the Hoyas and her brother. There was a small feature about her in the school newspaper a few days before the game.


Reporters saw all of this stuff happen to Ewing during his college career as the Hoyas were a high profile team....but almost unanimously they chose not to write about it.


This is the first I'm reading about it happening at MSG, but nothing surprises me when it comes to racism.

Oh, it happened, Gets. My brother and I used to go to at least twenty games a year back then, and I saw it first hand.

There was a Celtic game that was particularly ugly. These booze addled White trash Boston fans drove over 200 miles to throw banana peels at the poor guy. And I know they got cuffed, but I'm not sure if they were taken to the tombs, or just taken to the "Garden Jail" and released when they sobered up.

But you're right about about those incidents being under-reported. It was disgraceful.

And Ewing is a Boston guy
......the story about the Bruins fans going full racist at the hockey player mentions that .....whoops..the Bruins drafted HIS younger brother this year.


I've met some open racists from football obsessed deep south...they don't care for Blacks but if the right Black recruit can get their alma mater to the national championship.....he can marry their sister for all they care.

Bill Russell was the greatest winner Boston, or any city has ever known...and he got his house vandalized by people who didn't want him in their neighborhood.

so much for simple labels like liberal=good,open minded
bible belt=bad,

boston is one of the most liberal cities in the country and one of the most racist

True; but Brasilians have so many terms and classifications about race that it's not something people in North America always understand, and they use terms that many African-Americans would find racist like Mulatto, canela (cinnamon), amarela (yellow), or chocolate to describe peoples' race, heritage, or skin color.

Something a lot of Americans do not realise about Brasil is that they have the largest Japanese population outside of Japan and the Japanese people in Brasil have assimilated and done very well.

wbc suspends boxer after racially insensitive comments

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/20552...sitive-comments

Political correctness run amok. If a Mexican fighter said "I just beat shit out of an American," it wouldn't even make the papers.

Perhaps this is a Boston thing. Back in the 60's and 70's I was a Buffalo Bills fan and all the time I heard stories of Bills fans going to a game in Boston and if wearing Bills apparel, getting an ass kicking.I also remember a pre season game in Rochester NY and as a large crowd of Boston people fighting small groups of Bills fans when they were caught outnumbered,

There are a lot of Italians in Brazil as well.

How about that black senator from Mississippi who, this week said some racist things and called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an "Uncle Tom"????OK???

It's inexcusable. But two wrongs don't make a right. Bennie Thompson's stupidity doesn't make Donald Sterling any smarter .

Here's who I don't like

Trashy people that have no respect for themselves or others

I DONT care about class, race, gender etc.

I show you respect and you show me respect, done.

Sounds simple right....a person can dream

Respect Cheech Respect

Agree P.B. That's for sure. Just don't like double standards.

I've pretty much kept out of this discussion but recently it's been made public that the NBA owner's are going to attempt to vote to force Donald Sterling to sell his team. His wife, Shelly Sterling owns 50% of the team and she doesn't want to sell. LeBron James and Magic Johnson have both come forward to pretty much state that they want all of the Sterling's gone from the Clippers. Now, my question is, is that really fair? Shelly never made those comments and it just seems like guilt by association. If the NBA wants to run Donald Sterling out of the game, fine, I have no problem with that. But is it right for other players to say his estranged wife be gone too although (to public knowledge) she's done nothing wrong here!?

^^^^^^^^^^^

this ain't 1840, they're not gonna let his family keep his plantation

imagine how much of a racist dickhead you've gotta be in order to lose your franchise

owning an NBA team isnt a right...there are bylaws you have to abide by...almost like owning a condo or a town home...you dont abide by the guidelines (loud music, garbage, etc.) they can force you to move...its not like there going to make just the husband move, kids and wife and dog gotta go to

That's pretty much it. There really isn't any due process like in a court of law. But owners know this going in. It's not like they're changing the NBA by-laws just to torture this guy.

Like my first comment in this thread stated....Sterling's rant(#1) was consistent with some of the commets/actions that he's bee linked to in the past including housing discrimination lawsuit that he settled.

Unless I'm mistaken, his wife was named in the lawsuit and/ or some of the questionable actions linked to Sterling.

The idea that she retains partial ownership of the team gives the impression that Sterling would be circumventing the ruling that Commish. Silver put down.


Some of the attorneys on the site can determine whether she has legitimate 50% stake in the team. Would she have the same legal rights as a person or group that Sterling sold 50% stake in the team to.Does she attend/vote in owner's meetings?

I didn't think the Sterlings would go away quietly, but sports are about Americas coming together and Donald's involvement/connection to the NBA is hurting the brand

In an update, I heard today that it's in the NBA's bylaws that if an owner is voted out, then the rest of the owner's group is out too. This was the first I've heard of it that's why I posed the question. But since it's in the NBA's bylaws (such as owner conduct, etc) then I don't believe she has a shot at retaining her share of the team.

Like clockwork

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/...ng-obama-n-word


POLICE COMMISH caught calling POTUS a slur and refuses to apologize or step down.

I always say...be WHO you are and be consistent..and while this guy is a racist asshole..have to respect him fully embracing being a racist asshole.

Don't say racist shit and then apologize and claim not to be a racist.

Maybe no one has noticed this but the guys saying this shit are in their mid 80s.

I have one word that might explain it Dementia

@getthesenets


racism is worth too many "conservatives" jobs if u ask me

this stupid mothafucka is gonna lose his job over someone that's about to be unemployed


@footreads


donald sterling is probably going to hell when he dies

Heard most of the audio. The idea that disagreeing with Obamacare....or any of Obama's decisions makes someone a racist is ludicrous...and trivializes real racism.

The fringe element of people who just hate a Black man being potus are a small but vocal minority of people.

The element of people who would blindly follow Obama's decisions regardless of how they would be personally impacted is a small minority of people also.

Politicians know how to exploit people who already have their minds made up. Articles, stories and sound bytes will be seen/heard and then repeated VERBATIM by this element without examining/checking any of it out for themselves.


Thompson is from Miss. and that state has a very ugly history regarding all Americans being able to FULLY enjoy the rights of citizenship, so his read on things might be different than mine but one face value...I have to say he's talking out of his ass on the point about anybody opposing Obamacare instantly being a racist. Ninety % of the criticisms of Obama are STANDARD partisan politics and/or valid disagreements with his policies/actions.

Some of the "he hates America" stuff falls into category of politicos pandering to happily uninformed people.

Thompson's comments, at least the ones I heard..fall into category of pandering also.