• Ruling goes against black athletes - Federal court denies bid to sue NCAA
  A federal appeals court in Philadelphia decided yesterday to deny four black student-athletes another chance to sue the NCAA over the use of test scores to determine eligibility.The athletes said they were discriminated against by being denied athletic scholarships or sports eligibility because they did not score the minimum on the SAT or American College Test.

A King County Superior Court Judge this morning sentenced Seattle SuperSonics forward Ruben Patterson to 15 days in jail, at least $5,000 in fines and restitution, and two years probation for attempting to rape his family's nanny in September.

• Ex-Paulsboro basketballer shot dead while riding bike
  Rashawn Nelson, 22, was a standout guard on the high school basketball team.

Sporting News: Hearing delayed in rape case for Seattle's Patterson
Ruben Patterson was suspended for three games in February because of a conviction on an assault charge for breaking a man's jaw in Cleveland.

• Anger in Ghana after 126 die in soccer stampede

• Soccer stampede in Ghana kills 100 ACCRA, Ghana (May 10, 2001 6:23 a.m. EDT) - At least 100 people were killed during a match between top teams in Ghana as tear gas and panic touched off Africa's fourth soccer stampede in a month, officials and witnesses said.
• Families Seek Dead in Worst African Soccer Tragedy
• African Sports: Ex-Official Charged Over Missing Soccer Cash ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's former sports minister appeared in court Monday charged with stealing $46,000 dollars which he says he lost in a suitcase while on his way to pay the national soccer team. Mallam Yusuf Ali Issah was dismissed after just 30 days in the job following the loss of the money, which was meant to pay Ghana's Black Stars after a World Cup qualifying match against Sudan in March.

• "Racially segregated" youth baseball teams play on the White House south lawn

• Jury selection set to begin for trial of pimp Steven Kaplan and six associates on charges including loan sharking, money laundering and bribing police officers.
  
  Prosecutors say Kaplan enjoyed setting up famous athletes with prostitutes. He even flew a group of women to Charleston, S.C., in 1997 to "perform a lesbian sex show" and have sex with members of an unnamed NBA team, according to the indictment. NBA stars Patrick Ewing, Dennis Rodman and Charles Oakley were among the athletes and celebrities who received free food and drinks worth thousands of dollars when they visited the club, according to receipts seized by the FBI. (Reader link)

• Black athlete tells race-attack trial of affairs THE Commonwealth Games gold-medalist Ashia Hansen had affairs with two international athletes while continuing her “on-off relationship” with white boyfriend Chris Cotter, a court heard yesterday. Mr Cotter, 29, is accused, along with two co-defendants, of faking a racist attack on himself to win back Ms Hansen’s affection and to make money by selling his story to a newspaper. His co-accused, Surjit Singh Clair and Craig Wynn deny conspiring

• "Why would you even consider Penn State? It's a racist school." last Saturday, the whispers became national news when protesters stormed the field at Beaver Stadium before Penn State's annual spring football game to protest a series of death threats received by several black students and a university trustee.

• Sports: COS basketball star guilty of raping girl, two women VISALIA -- After nearly three days of deliberations, a Tulare County jury found a College of the Sequoias basketballer r guilty of raping two women and a minor. James "Mookie" Hall showed no emotion as the court clerk read the verdict Thursday convicting him on 11 felony counts, including forcible rape, false imprisonment, kidnap with the intent to rape, oral copulation, penetration with a foreign object and anal penetration with a foreign object.

• Former Compton Coach Acquitted of Sex Charges
• Black Penn State students arrested at football protest STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - More than two dozen students at Pennsylvania State University were arrested yesterday after they rushed the field before the annual Blue-White football scrimmage to draw attention to death threats made against black students.

• "Baseball Card Discrimination?" Is racism in the cards? - by Noam Neusner
  Both Mickey Mantle, a white Yankee, and Willie Mays, a black Giant, patrolled center field in great old New York ballparks. They debuted the same spring and ended their careers in Cooperstown. Yet Mantle's rookie card is worth more than twice as much as Mays's. A few years ago, economists called the Mantle-Mays card comparison a textbook case of racism and proof that racial discrimination taints baseball cards, that bastion of Americana.

Former basketballer is arraigned on charges of robbery
LOWER MERION - Harry Moore, 29, a former standout basketball player for St. Bonaventure University, was arraigned yesterday on charges of robbing a Villanova University student at a bank machine on Lancaster Avenue on Thursday night.

Moore, of the 8000 block of Fayette Street, Philadelphia, is a suspect in three other holdups at ATMs in Lower Merion and a half-dozen in the city and suburbs, said Capt. Michael J. McGrath of the Lower Merion Police Department.

Moore was nabbed by officers who were on a surveillance detail as he fled with several hundred dollars at 8:50 p.m. Thursday, McGrath said. Police recovered the money and found a replica firearm tucked in his jacket, McGrath said. Moore was sent to Montgomery County prison after he failed to post $200,000 bail. Moore, a Simon Gratz High School standout, is No. 12 on St. Bonaventure's all-time scoring list.

• Blacks may take over another sport: Diversity Thrives in Edmonton
  NHL's Oilers Bring Blacks to Forefront in Predominantly White Sport

• Athlete Charged With Rapes, Kidnappings ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) _ A minor league football player has been accused of attacking, raping and robbing strangers at the Red River levee for almost a year. Darell Dewayne White, 28, of Alexandria, was arrested late Monday night near the levee, where police had been conducting 24-hour surveillance.

• Black Basketball Coach Charged with Sodomite Rape of Youth
  Youth Tells Jury About Sex Acts With Coach
  He says former Compton instructor Russell Otis pressured him repeatedly.
  A teenager tearfully told a Superior Court jury Tuesday that former Compton basketball coach Russell Otis groped him, performed oral sex on him and sodomized him. The boy said Otis, who was his coach at Dominguez High School, repeatedly asked to perform oral sex on the teenager while they were at the coach's Carson home last fall.

• Black Sports: 24 die in stampede at South African soccer match  (reader link)
• Update: Stampede at Soccer Match Kills 47
• Update: Fifty die in stampede at football match

• Black Sports: At Naval Academy, Rape Case Casts Cloud on Military Justice
  Courts: Three black football players leave school after being accused of sexual assault, but some wonder if that is enough punishment.

At Academy, Rape Case Fuels Doubts: Black Midshipmen Escaped Punishment
Cordrea Brittingham (left), Shaka AminMartin (center) and Arion Keith Williams (right). Until last season, the three were teammates at the U.S. Naval Academy, but they now are linked by a notorious and more resilient thread: allegations that they gang raped a female classmate last year during a drinking party...

• High schools also seeing decline in black baseball players
  Area coaches say high school baseball teams across South Carolina have seen a progressive decrease in minority participation that began more than two decades ago.
  Horton said the influx of players from Latin America and the Caribbean coupled with a decrease in baseball’s overall popularity have steered blacks away from pursuing the sport at the earliest levels. (Reader link)

• Black Sports: The lawsuit alleges that former coach Jerry Ann Winters treated black players more harshly than whites; instituted segregated housing on road trips; and punished black players more harshly than white players for similar offenses.
• Judge to appoint mediator in USF racism lawsuit TAMPA, Fla. - A judge said he will ask a mediator to try to resolve a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of South Florida by eight former women's basketballers.

UT fights ESPN's subpoenas of students' records
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A lawyer for the University of Tennessee has asked a federal judge to stop ESPN's attempts to subpoena student records and university documents for defamation lawsuits against the sports network.

The Black Sports Cult and the American Dream
The University will not release 'academic records' of black athletes - many allege a conspiracy of coaches, teachers, administrators, alumni and the media to recruit illiterate
below-average intelligence blacks solely for the promotion of the 'Black Sports Cult'
that has become a 'religion' in American with millions of majority Americans 'brainwashed'
with their obsessed voyeuristic fixation on watching the scholastically retarded sports heroes jump up and down, bump into each other, perform ritualistic homosexual acts, do strange primitive 'victory dances' on the field and ritualistically follow the cabalistic magical numerics of the 'scores' of the games.

The Black Sports Cult promotes gambling, drinking in front of TV, Sports Bar alcohol syndrome, obesity and the shorting of life associated with this lifestyle.

This is reminiscent of the "Bread and Circuses" of the last days of the Roman Empire.
Today it is "Food Stamps and the Black Sports Cult".

The Barbarians will get tired of Foreign Aid. They have infiltrated their spies and are
sharpening their swords. One day America may be rudely awakened when the Barbarians
have sacked the cities, raped the women, eaten the dogs and enslaved those not too fat
for work in the slave labor camps.

- Sports Editor, New Nation News

Synopsis: In a book that is certain to ignite an explosive controversy, 
Herrnstein and Murray dare to reveal their belief that it is intelligence levels, not environmental circumstances, poverty, or lack of education that are at the root of many of our social problems.

"non-denominational" link: Hofstetter's Sports Jerk of the Week
"Criminals, racists, and overpayed gloryhogs are not what sports are about.
Here, we villify all that is wrong with sports, and have fun doing it."

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