As the Aggies’ Max Shulga was shooting late free throws, a group of “fans,” if that’s the right word to describe them, started chanting, “Russia … Russia … Russia.” Shulga is from Kyiv, Ukraine. That’s where many members of his family still live.
. That’s where many members of his family still live, doing their best to survive a war that has seen their country — including elementary schools, hospitals, neighborhoods, churches — invaded, rocketed, bombed, shot up, destroyed.
When current Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr was a player at Arizona back in 1988, a group of Arizona State students started in with pregame chants, such as, “PLO … PLO … PLO,” and … “Where’s your dad?”Malcolm Kerr, who was the president of American University in Beirut, Lebanon, had been assassinated four years earlier.
“When I heard it, I just dropped the ball and started shaking. I sat down for a minute. I’ll admit, they got to me. I had tears in my eyes.” We’ve all become sadly aware of racist remarks hurled at athletes in the midst of competition, games that stir in some people dark emotions that spill out of ignorant minds and mouths and into ears that should never be blistered in such an awful manner.
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