Two basketball coaches who are the parents of a popular WNBA player are finding themselves in the middle of a firestorm over race and accusations of unsportsmanlike conduct after they were fired from a New Mexico high school. Cecilee Moses and Rick Schimmel, the parents of Atlanta Dream guard Shoni Schimmel, were coaching the Santa Fe Indian School boys team against a local rival last week when Rick Schimmel said the athletic director for the other school shoved him in the back and refused his requests to have fans removed for purportedly yelling a racial slur at his players. This is not the damn reservation,'' Tom Manning, the St. Michael's High School athletic director, is accused of saying in a statement Schimmel made to police.
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