There’s more info coming out on the girlfriend of Brandon Davies, who Sportscasm brilliantly anointed “the Yoko Ono of BYU basketball.” In case you missed it yesterday, Davies was booted from the BYU basketball team for admitting to coitus with his special lady friend, who has now been identified as Arizona State freshman volleyball player Danica Mendevil, according to reports. And yep, she’s a white girl.
Why does this matter? Because this could negate everything anyone said yesterday about BYU simply enforcing its well-documented honor code. I’m not presuming racism here, but…okay, I’m totally presuming racism. There’s anecdotal evidence that the discipline of Davies–one of only three black players on the team–was relatively harsh, not only by college basketball standards, but even by those of the school.
Somebody has to ask the question: were the conservative powers that be in Provo looking to punish a black kid getting sexual attention from a white girl? Don’t tell me that it couldn’t possibly happen, because it does. It could certainly happen in Utah, especially at a school operated and encased by a federalized religion.
But my main takeaway from yesterday does stand: if you want to get stinky, don’t work in a soap factory. Davies still violated his contract with the school, as shoddy as such a pact may have been. Good luck to BYU on ever recruiting another black athlete ever again. And no, I don’t really mean that.


*cocks shotgun, spits chaw*
There’s a storm a-brewin’.
With those shorts, how can he not uphold the archaic rules of his contract?
My god, do all college volleyball girls wear those tiny shorts? *goes to his university’s website*
Nope. Shoulda went to ASU
The temptress’s name is Mendevil?
Who wrote this story? Brigham Young?
I have no sympathy for a black dude that chooses to go to BYU. There’s I reason I didn’t attend WOP-free U.
/didn’t get a basketball scholarship
Didn’t get a grammar scholarship either, shockingly.
What in the sweet name of Christ does “encased in a federalized religion” mean? And what does that have to do with whether BYU was motivated by racism? If you have sex at BYU, you get tossed from school. It’s not the nuclear option for the school, it’s typical – athlete or not. They may encourage you to return after you’ve repented, etc. BYU kids just don’t have sex. It’s odd and antithetical to a typical college experience but these are devoutly religious people. And I can tell you from decades of experience, Mormons, as a group, are the least racist people you’ll meet. It has a lot to do with being naive and not encountering non-white people much. But ask any black folks who have been to Provo if they felt hatred from the locals. I’m betting the answer is no. Clueless and dorky? Sure. Unfunky? Absolutely. Cross-burning bigots? No. Just sayin’ . . .
Wah wah racism.
You really should read the Deadspin article that you cited. It has nothing to do with double standards and everything to do with not getting caught. Davies got caught.
In conclusion, wah wah racism.
What, no SECRebal comment?
Eddie from Buffalo apparently isn’t familiar with the Mormon Church’s record on race issues.
+1 Woody. Wasn’t sure how to word it.
Gonna have to second what Eddie from Buffalo said. LDS people are about the least racist people you will ever find…
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times.
Fucking. White. People.
Excerpt from The Mormon Curtian/racism
” On one occasion my son asked his seminary teacher about some of Brigham Young’s statements on race. He mentioned that Brigham Young said that the punishment for mixing your blood with the seed of cain (blacks) was that the curse of cain would come upon you and your future generations. It always had been and always would be. (I think he actually said that it was death by stoning, but racism is just as blatent.) His teacher responded, “I hate to say it, but that’s true.” I said, “Oh my gosh! She actually said that?” “Oh yeah.” I found myself saying, “Were there any black people in the room?” My son said, “No. Thank God!” “
i think she might try to get pregnant as well so she can keep him.