Principal: Coach Told Players to Hit Ref

ESPN reports an assistant coach at San Antonio’s John Jay High School admitted to his school principal that he ordered football players to deliberately tackle a referee during a game as retribution for racist language. Mack Breed said he “directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls,” according to a statement signed by principal Robert Harris. The players, 15-year-old Victor Rojas and 17-year-old Michael Moreno, face disciplinary hearings. The referee, Robert Watts, was heard using the N-word twice during the Sept. 4 game, as well as language derogatory to Hispanics, according to sources on the sideline who spoke to ESPN.