University of Colorado athletes face racist e-mail charge

[davidinalameda]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/ncaa/12/11/colorado.racist.email.ap/index.html

A University of Colorado football player has been suspended and his girlfriend, a cross-country-track runner, has quit the sports program after being accused of sending a racist e-mail to a Hispanic cross-country runner, the school announced.

The e-mail included a reference to dragging the man behind a car, recalling an incident in 1998 in Texas when a black man was dragged to his death. The two athletes were cited for harassment and ethnic intimidation.\

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Meanwhile, a police report said O'Neal and Zeigle, who are both white, sent the typo-filled message to Greg Castro. It called Castro a "river rat" and "border hopper" and "bean eating peace of ." The message suggested O'Neal would drag Castro behind his car.

There have been several racially tinged incidents in Boulder over the past year. The message was sent from O'Neal's account on an Internet portal for college students that requires a university e-mail address.

[joeybee12]

1. This was big news here yesterday in Denver...

...the CU football team is a disgrace, and a disgrace that can't even win! It'll take a while to clean up the mess by Barnett and his predecessors.

[davidinalameda]

2. Barnett should have been fired last year

what a disgrace to sports

[joeybee12]

4. I'm a cynic--if they'd had as bad a year last year, he would have;

likewise, if he had had a great year this year, people would still be looking the other way.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Univ of Colorado needs to friggin' CLEAN HOUSE!!

What a pathetic embarrassment they are to Colorado and collegiate sports!

[bmbmd]

5. Regime change in order for CU.

New coach to be announced soon.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/5168052