Wednesday's Sports in Brief (Yahoo Sports)

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Another Muslim sports icon, basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, weighed in with an essay on Time.com. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Vikings' internal security staff is investigating after a fan said another man directed racist comments at him during Sunday's game. Deepinder Mayell wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in the Star Tribune that he was at Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks when another fan demanded to know if he was a refugee and made other comments Mayell considered hate speech.

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