{"id":293237,"date":"2026-05-14T18:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:06:31","slug":"college-basketball-star-confronts-fan-that-called-him-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293237\/","title":{"rendered":"College basketball star confronts fan that called him a terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">There were ugly scenes in a recent college basketball game between the Cal Bears and Texas Tech after one of the players was racially abused by a fan. During the encounter, which Cal lost 75-72 to UTEP, forward Fardaws Aimaq leapt into the stands after being called a &#8220;terrorist&#8221;. Rightly so, the player was furious with the opposition fan, and confronted him about his racial slur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were ugly scenes in a recent college basketball game between the Cal Bears and Texas Tech after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-293237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}