With Sterling gone, do sports owners now need to tread carefully?

Hopefully no baseball owner says anything derogatory about Dominicans.

 

Just went to see the Globetrotters with my kids. They aren't very good. They didn't play the Generals but a group of local "all-stars" who were totally and intentionally anonymous (no names on their jerseys, never introduced). The Globetrotters would have lost if not for the gimmicks (5 point trick play challenges etc.). Also, assuming that they're targeting kids, it was too PG-13 for my taste, but I'm pretty sensitive to these things.

 

Fixed that for ya.

 

He wasn't an owner, and he was talking about management and not fans, but Al Campanis was the Donald Sterling of his time. Yeah, if an owner was caught saying he hated Latinos and didn't want them at the games, that would be the closest I could think to a Sterling-type situation in another sport. Unless a hockey owner said he hated Canadians.

 

Looks like things have evolved to a "don't ask, don't tell" situation.

 

I certainly wouldn't take any kids of any race to see the Globetrotters.

They still pander to a lot of the dumbest 1940s stereotypes of what "black people" are supposed to be about.

Stepin Fetchit in Nikes.