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White stirred up a shitstorm with his reported comments about not being able to play on the 'Neers basball team because of his race.

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Pat White drops a bomb instead of throwing one

NEWPORT, R.I. -- Pat White seemed a bit surly on Tuesday but sometimes that's Pat White.

West Virginia's quarterback can be moody at times. That's OK, it's a rough world. The question seems to be, what does he have to be moody about? White has thrived in Rich Rodriguez' offense to the point that he is 784 yards away from being the all-time leading rusher among quarterbacks. He is a Heisman candidate, the heart and soul of the Mountaineers.

New coach Bill Stewart spent part of Tuesday's Big East media day talking White up as an NFL prospect. Stewart wanted his quarterback to play baseball this spring just to see his athleticism in a different sport. Stewart said White told him he couldn't hit the curve ball. White then told reporters a different reason.

"In my knowledge of West Virginia baseball, there's not been many players of my race on his team," White was quoted as saying of baseball coach Greg Van Zant. "He's not too high on it."

I spoke to White and some of his teammates during the media day. I wasn't there when White spoke those words. The closest he came was when I asked him about playing baseball White said, "I couldn't play for West Virginia." Later, though, another reporter did mention the incendiary comments to me. How do you treat something like that when you haven't heard it yourself? It's like handling hot coals. Everyone can be burned.

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Doesn't sound like he even talked to the coach about trying out for the team. Maybe he's too racist to play with an all-white team.

Then again, maybe he really can't hit the curveball!

Either way---:tibor:


An MLB player was complaining recently about the lack of black players in the majors. I can't remember who it was. Maybe it was an old-timer.
 
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Brutus1;1218565; said:
Doesn't sound like he even talked to the coach about trying out for the team. Maybe he's too racist to play with an all-white team.

Then again, maybe he really can't hit the curveball!

Either way---:tibor:


An MLB player was complaining recently about the lack of black players in the majors. I can't remember who it was. Maybe it was an old-timer.
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Torii Hunter
 
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I dont know what to make of this but i will tell you that having played baseball from the time I was 5 till 18 in Columbus/Reynoldsburg i rarely saw or played against any minorities. I played school ball/travel/youth league, you name it. Now did every one of those clubs prohibit minorities from playing or was there a lack of interest from said minorities on playing? i just think its a cop out (most of the time) when these allegations get thrown around and it's sad because it can damage a persons reputation beyond repair.
 
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White's comments will result in a conversation with AD Ed Pastilong. And in articles rehashing every racially related incident in the history of WVU and their coaching staff. This has to have a negative effect on Stewart's recruiting efforts.

usatoday

West Virginia AD will speak with White about race comments

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ? West Virginia University athletics director Ed Pastilong plans to speak with quarterback Pat White about the player's accusations that the Mountaineers' baseball team doesn't pursue black athletes.

White made his comments Tuesday at the Big East football media day in Newport, R.I. The comments were first reported on the website www.zagsblog.net.

White was asked about the possibility of playing baseball in college. He has been drafted three times by major league teams, including last month by the Cincinnati Reds.

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The athletic department has had to deal this year with two other high-profile incidents involving remarks related to racism:

- Shortly after Bill Stewart was hired in January as head football coach to replace Rich Rodriguez, an incident from Stewart's days as coach at Virginia Military Institute re-emerged. Kelly Cook, then a player at VMI, said Stewart used a racial epithet when scolding him during a 1996 practice. Stewart did not return as VMI coach in 1997. WVU said it knew of the incident before it hired Stewart.

- Calvin Magee, an assistant coach who followed Rodriguez to Michigan, said that a then-WVU employee made a racist remark to him in December. Larry Aschebrook, then-executive director of the athletic department's private fundraising arm, has denied telling Magee, who is black, that he wouldn't have a chance of succeeding Rodriguez at West Virginia because of his skin color.

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jimotis4heisman;1219334; said:
hockey look at the blue jackets
malhotra (hes has asian indian ancestory)
brathwie
grand-pierre
mouldon
all pop into my head immediately-and a lot of the russians are technically asians.... right?
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Ah, but look at HS hockey and lacross in our fair state. As white as the snows of Killamanjaro.
 
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