Greenberg Apologizes to Students
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Long Beach State Coach Seth Greenberg said Friday he has publicly apologized to two New Mexico State students who were removed from a Big West Conference basketball game Jan. 22 at Las Cruces, N.M.
University attorneys faxed a letter signed by Greenberg, apologizing to the students, Charles Sallee and Craig Sullivan, who allege Greenberg slandered them and violated their civil rights.
They have retained a lawyer.
Greenberg requested security officers remove several people from the Pan American Center during the final moments of the Aggies’ 76-63 victory, televised nationally on ESPN, after he pointed to a group of spectators he alleges yelled racial slurs at his African-American players.
“These young men, in my opinion, were not the cowardly individuals who said those things,” Greenberg said.
Before the game, Long Beach discovered an anti-Semitic epithet scrawled on the grease board in the visitors’ locker room. Greenberg was highly critical of New Mexico State officials and spectators during a postgame tirade in front of reporters.
Sallee has denied making or hearing any racial remarks.
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