Breaking earlier this week in the American news (that would travel globally) were the audio recordings of Donald Sterling, owner of Basketball's Los Angeles Clippers, who was taped making racially foolish comments which one could reasonably conclude as meaning he doesn't really like black people.
The release of the comments, recorded by Sterling's mistress (young enough to be his granddaughter) and released to the highly accurate TMZ, caused an immediate firestorm of protest within the NBA community and Sports media at large.
Eighty year-old Sterling was recorded as saying to Mistress Vanessa Stiviano (31): "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to? You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want (but) the little I ask you is ... not to bring them to my games. ...Don't put him [Magic Johnson] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don't bring him to my games."