A tale as old as time, and a great reason to love soccer: one guy says something racist, so the other guy lifts him off the ground with a boot to the nuts.

By way of It’s Always Sunny In Detroit:

Didier Zokora claimed that Emre Belozoglu used a racial slur when the two players’ Turkish clubs met in April. Belozoglu was suspended for two games for the incident.

Zokora got his revenge Sunday when he came together with Belozoglu.

Remind me to never go to Turkey and be a racist. That looked less like a kick to the junk and more like a guy getting gored during the Running Of The Bulls. Motherf**ker kicked a field goal. Didier only got a yellow card for his actions, but watching Belozoglu roll around on the ground in agony after being flung across the stadium by his scrotum was worth any punishment.

Let that be a lesson to everyone:

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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.

via Frat House Sports.

Mike Mayock of NFL Network is being accused of racism…kinda sorta. As quoted by one of the Tweeters at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mayock said, “Cam Newton is an unbeleivable athlete,” but that “you have to have the football IQ to make it work.” Fanhouse columnist David C. Steele did not take Mayock’s assessment lightly. Oh, and I should probably mention that Steele is black (and Mayock is not), otherwise this will make even less sense.

It never stops. Unless Mayock can give us conclusive proof, on air, about Newton’s “football IQ,” he should be fired. It’s 2011. I’m tired of this sh:t.

–via @David_C_Steele.

That’s tremendous reverse race-baiting, David, but I have some bad news. The reason Mayock has a job with NFL Network (and you don’t) is because of his ability to offer opinions on crap that nobody can really prove or disprove. And he didn’t reportedly say CAM NEWTON DOES NOT HAVE A HIGH FOOTBALL IQ so much as suggest that quarterbacks need more than athleticism to win in the NFL (See: Young, Vince).

And since when is Cam Newton above reproach? Oh, he won a national title. Yeah, so did Craig Krenzel. It stands to reason that Mayock was simply offering a judgement call about a one-year starting quarterback with documented character issues playing in a prolific offensive system. Or, he just loves objectively evaluating black NFL prospects, all of which he despises based solely on color. Makes perfect sense to me!

The south is at it again. Don’t get me wrong, I love being on the leisurely side of the Mason-Dixon line, but man, they need to hire an image consultant. Yes, all 17-ish southern states. One image consultant. Economies of scale there. And yes, it should probably be a minority. Anyway, the state legislature in Mississippi wants to bring back “Colonel Reb,” the not-exactly-racist mascot that its eponymous Oxford university started removing from the school’s identity since 2003.

House Bill 1106, authored by Duvall, would amend the state code, adding a provision that the University of Mississippi “shall bear the nickname ‘Ole Miss Rebels’ and its mascot shall be ‘Colonel Rebel.’ “[...]

In a post titled “Mark DuVall: Epic MetaTroll or Disgruntled, Slightly Empowered Redneck?” the Red Cup Rebellion blog writes: “Unless they’re trying to strip Ole Miss of the educational shackles enforced by the (state College Board) or beef up the school’s annual budget, the Legislature of Mississippi really needn’t meddle further with Ole Miss’ affairs.”

–Clarion-Ledger [MS], via College Football Blog.

DuVall, it should be noted, is an Ole Miss alum and a freshman rep in the state House, so he may not be aware that the purpose of the state legislature isn’t to serve as a magic wish machine. Or, maybe it does. That would explain why their state is $13 billion in debt.

Hey, remember that sports bar in Philadelphia where that kid was killed last summer? Okay, it wasn’t in the bar, and this is actually a totally different location, but be that as it may. The management there has a bit of a beef with minorities. McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon, on 3rd Street near Willow, has been named in a class-action suit because of a bartender’s complaint that “racism and racial segregation are not only tolerated, but mandated.”

According to the complaint, only five of the bar’s 75 employees are black, including Bolden and the “man and woman who work in the bathroom handing out towels.” Bolden, 29, is a full-time attorney with the nonprofit Community Legal Services, and has been employed at McFadden’s since 2007.

The complaint alleges that in June, in an effort to draw bigger crowds during slow summer months, McFadden’s hired Everett “Mr. Hollywood DJ” Jackson and a promoter named “Alexis,” both of whom are black. The move turned out to be a “resounding success,” the complaint alleges, and many of the bar’s new patrons on Wednesday nights were “non-white.”

By August, however, McFadden’s made deliberate steps to “dismantle” the Wednesday-night scene, the complaint alleges, as their usual crowd of “white individuals” was returning from college break or the shore. –Philly.com.

Knowing Philly, business at this bar will probably triple within the next week. You just can’t buy advertising like that. And just some I’m clear, I was referring to Mr. Bolden and his firm. It’s amazing that a black bartender could have held down a job at a whites-only bar for three years. I wonder if reveals the tricks to that trade in his suit.

This is Monte Irvin from back in the day; he was one of the first African-American outfielders to start for the San Francisco Giants, so I’d take it that he might know a thing or two about American racism.

“Just happened to be that way. It’s not designed that way,” Irvin said in an interview with The Chronicle on Friday. “That’s going to happen unless you get more participation with youngsters coming up.” [...]

“Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don’t say a damn thing about that. You think we’re still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don’t dwell on it. –SF Chron, via Rob Neyer.

I never understood why people would say that we need “more” blacks in baseball. It’s a mindset that I can’t wrap my head around; it’s not as if baseball is excluding groups of people based on race. And then there’s the “Latin players are cheaper to develop so we need to invest more money to cultivate black players.” Only an idiot sportswriter would say something like that. Yeah, these players are pretty cheap, but we need to go someplace else and find players that will cost our organization more money. Great competitive mindset, people. Some of those clowns couldn’t run a lemonade stand.