"Cry Me A River", nigger loving hockey wackos!
(NEWSER) – Joel Ward of the Washington Capital scored every hockey player's dream goal last night: a Game 7 overtime winner that knocked the defending champ Boston Bruins out of the playoffs. The only hitch is that Ward is a black player in what has long been a white man's league, and by the time the Capitals were flying home, Twitter had been flooded with "racist slurs",(
)reports USA Today. A teammate brought them to Ward's attention mid-flight and apologized that people were talking about his race and not his goal.(
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"It doesn't faze me at all," Ward tells the newspaper. "We won, and we are moving on. … People are going to say what they want to say." Teammates weren't as forgiving, and the league issued a statement calling the comments "ignorant and unacceptable." ...
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