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    Dr. Saturday

    Stefon Diggs apologizes for Jeremy Lin tweet then closes Twitter account

    (Washington Post)Stefon Diggs hasn't even enrolled at Maryland yet, but he's already getting a taste of how quickly a fan base can turn on him.

    Friday, Diggs sent out a racially offensive tweet regarding New York Knicks star guard Jeremy Lin: "Everybody need to get off Jeremy Lin egg roll and dumplings he's good though."

    Within minutes, the tweet was grabbed, published and Diggs felt a shockwave of anger and disappointment the likes of which the highly touted recruit had never felt before. So he did what any person who sent out an ignorant tweet would do — he apologized and closed his Twitter account.

    But not until after he defended his tweet, which was — at first — a response to a Lin fan, who heaped praise on Lin after Diggs made a tweet about Kobe Bryant. After Diggs sent the offensive tweet to the fan he then resent it as advice for everyone.

    (John Middlebrook/Cal Sports Media)"A lot of people feel some type a way about my tweet. I sincerely didn't mean anything by it," Diggs wrote on his account, which has been deleted. "I apologize to those who I offended.

    "In conclusion I will avoid all future situation like this by not tweeting at all. This situation can be viewed in many different ways. I honestly didn't mean anything by it.

    "LAST TWEET … goodbye twitter see you in the fall."

    There were no reports of Randy Edsall's head exploding, but it's probably fair to say that Maryland's head coach wasn't pleased with his prized recruits poor judgment and might have had hand in making him close his account.

    It's probably good for Diggs to understand the weight of his words. Even though he hasn't played a down, Diggs already holds Maryland's hopes for a desperately needed reversal of fortune. So everyone is watching and monitoring him, just waiting to pounce.

    On the positive side, it looks like Diggs has plans to reopen the account in the fall. So we can all look forward to that.

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    88 comments

    • Dominick  •  1 month 12 days ago
      It's official, Yahoo users are full of stuck-up, hypocritical white racists who use a mistake of a black person to feed their own desire to make racist remarks. If you would take a look, any racist black comments are "thumbed up" and any comment defending Diggs is "thumbed down". I can guarantee this is mostly whites, and not asians, you know why? Because asians are some of the best handlers of racism. All the asians I know love making racist jokes and take them well, but on the other hand whites are the ones who take it to the heart and dish it back ANONYMOUSLY. Most of you ACT more offended than asians should be, and like I said it's serve your own racist agenda to reassure that blacks deserve the hate. Only time will tell if the country will ever change..
    • brooklyn  •  New York, New York  •  1 month 12 days ago
      I do not know what he closed his twitter account for if somebody had a personal problem on what he said they can go and handle it .........People looking for sympathy from him on what he said or something ????
    • davidn  •  Piscataway, New Jersey  •  2 months ago
      I hope Diggs knows that the reason why Chinese are view as cooks and laundry person is because they were not allow to obtain other pofession- for about 100 years. Look up EXCLUSION ACT and you know how the history of Chinese Americans are treated.
    • seen2much  •  Harbin, China  •  2 months ago
      Yahoo won't post my commits, I think this is censorship , however I have grown to accept it as a way of life.
      • Eric Jones 2 months ago
        Perhaps it is because you are in China? I'm surprised they even let you read about foot ball...
    • davidn  •  Piscataway, New Jersey  •  2 months ago
      To Diggs parents, please teach him about racial tolerance?
      Make him read Martin Luther King, Jr., Biography and the Asian American history- if he can read.
      DIGGS PARENTS- WHERE ARE YOU?
      • Mankuro 1 month 13 days ago
        LMAO!
      • matt 1 month 10 days ago
        "if he can read"...practice what you preach and grow up
    • Ghost1  •  2 months ago
      Ever since Jeremy Lin becoming a star, media started to becoming racial example like the guy who tweeted about stereo typically about Asians having small genitals, then ESPN said racial words "Chink in a armor", Floyd Mayweather stupid tweet about how blacks in the NBA don't get praises, and now this. Honestly, who cares Lin is Asian or not because the fact is Lin is great and he is becoming a role model to every youngsters and breaking off the stereotypes of Asians.
      • Edward Eubanks 2 months ago
        I've watched Lin play and I think he is too freaking slow. That's gonna work against him as a point guard. Ihave witnessed an unparalelled publicity effort by the NBA to exploit this new souce of fan interewt, but I don't think Lin has a chinaman's chance of maintaining his NBA stardom.
      • A 2 months ago
        Edward, you are correct. Lin sucks. All of this is a product of an extremely slow sporting news season. Post-SuperBowl/Pre-March Madness has nothing going for it. The people at ESPN are bored. They made Lin famous. Not Lin. When he is the starting PG for a championship winning team, THEN they should talk. 8 games in they acted like he was on his way to 2 hands full of rings.
      • PDX2010 2 months ago
        Asians are smug and cliquish. Lin might be worthy of praise, but people are just apprehensive about all the gloating and arrogance that this will produce from a basically racist and homogeneous American minority group.
    • tjsmomma  •  Pinole, California  •  2 months ago
      Social media is a B***ch. Once it is sent it is out there. It is not private. It is not secure. So Tweet at your own peril.
    • HarleyJoe  •  2 months ago
      I guess this Jeremy Lin incident is proof in the pudding of reverse bigotry and racism that the blacks for so long have been pointing fingers at other races for. Isn't it time to stop the hate? Didn't Martin Luther King die for the realization of "His Dream" which included loving your neighbor whether he be black or white? Time to get over all this #$%$ hate crap, and start extending your hand to your neighbor and leave the extremely few haters behind in the dust! Or disrespect Dr. King and keep going down the road you're going on, which is a road to nowhere!
      • Ralph J 2 months ago
        With you using a phrase like "that the Blacks" I would have to call into question your racial IQ. I am Black and I find it quite offensive!!!!
      • Ralph J 2 months ago
        I agree Lin is a role model but the question I have is would they be using phrases like "chink in the armor" or "egg rolls & dumplings" if he wasn't. I say no and that is the issue. They may not have meant it in a derogatory way be too often people use it is a bad way. We can't see want is in someones heart so the best way to not hurt feelings is to not use this type of language.
      • NicaNoonan 2 months ago
        Everyone is a racist. If you say your not, you are a liar. Some people are more overt than others that cower at political correctness or are in flat-out denial.
    • Txdawg  •  Tomball, Texas  •  2 months ago
      Who cares what a self absorbed child says or tweets?
    • ZipLine33  •  2 months ago
      Tell me something ... If Larry Bird or Steve Kerr said, "Everyone need to get off Carmelo Anthony fried chicken and watermelon he's good though ..." How would African-Americans take that comment? Would they be content with a "I didn't mean to offend" anybody apology?
      • A 2 months ago
        No. They'd be wondering why you were calling a penis fried chicken and testicles watermelon. Then they'd wonder, "does he have watermelon sized balls? Does Kerr know this? Is his penis all f-ed up like fried chicken?!'' Then they'd realize that was a terrible euphemism for genitals and go about their day.
      • harold961 2 months ago
        blacks have been bad mouthing tim tebow and now lin but they never say anything bad about their brothers.they are racist.
      • Bro's before yard too ... 2 months ago
        oh shut up, you sound like a whineyass bitch.
    • DD Sims  •  2 months ago
      Where's Crackpipe Al Sharpton and color monger Jesse Jackson in all of this?
    • akbar  •  Beverly Hills, California  •  2 months ago
      what he shoulda wrote was "jeremy lin steals like a brutha"
    • Lloyd Severence  •  Columbus, Ohio  •  2 months ago
      I think the "see you in the fall" comment was about football and not reopening his Twitter account ...
    • GS430  •  2 months ago
      In a related story, Stefon Diggs impressed scouts with his IQ, which matches his uniform number in the above picture.
    • Lo  •  2 months ago
      stupid football nagger
    • Bro's before yard too ...  •  Bluebell, Utah  •  2 months ago
      seems everyone is apologizing to Lin lately, that's going to get real old real quick.

      this kid should not have apologized, it wasn't hardly offensive. not even close.
    • ker  •  2 months ago
      why is there no one supervising these kids' use of the internet? there are a lot of people at every university who get paid solely to watch over the shoulders of the student/athletes to avoid p.r. nightmares. they should be working overtime with social media now.
    • mark  •  Wilson, North Carolina  •  2 months ago
      WOW, you mean a black has finally been accused of making a RACIAL comment....Say it ain't so....Didn't think it was possible...
    • akbar  •  Beverly Hills, California  •  2 months ago
      this kid is going to score like vince young did on the wonderlic test
    • Plato  •  Boston, Massachusetts  •  2 months ago
      How would he like to see a menu item, the Stefon Diggs Special, that featured an appetizer of chitlins, followed by a main course of fried chicken, with watermelon for dessert? Let's hope Diggs picks up some sensitivity at Maryland, along with a remedial course in grammar.