Harassment of University of Utah women’s basketball team highlights larger issues for college athletes

College athletes and supporters are rallying behind the University of Utah’s women’s basketball team after their coach revealed in a post-game press conference that players experienced racism in the Idaho city they were staying in for the opening weekend of the NCAA Division I tournament and had to change hotels. Head coach Lynne Roberts said her team — composed of Black, Latina and white athletes — relocated from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho closer to Spokane, Washington on Friday after experiencing “racial hate crimes” in which people drove by, revved their trucks...