Appeals Court Hands Victory to Lakers in Discrimination Case

A California state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the former Spanish-language broadcaster for the Los Angeles Lakers had failed to prove that the team discriminated against him because of his race or age when it decided not to hire him to do the team’s Spanish language television broadcast.   Regarding race, the court found that the plaintiff could not overcome the Lakers’ stated reasons for firing him, which was that the decision was financially motivated. As