Scandal erupts at Menlo College wrestling program as stars break cover to reveal vile texts ⁠86%

By Ross O'Keefe⁠0%

5/7/2026, 2:41:18 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Anecdotal, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 48.2% saturation with 131 hits. Analysis detected 720 faulty-reasoning hits from 272 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 77.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠86% (3,155 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.60% of the article peer group.

Two college wrestlers have broken ranks to accuse members of their national championship winning team of hurling racial slurs at them. 
Koki Mayfield and SD Nimeri, who are both black, claimed other stars repeatedly called them the N-word and made slave jokes while at the private Menlo College in the Bay Area. 
They shared shocking text exchanges where students aggressively attacked them and also made homophobic comments. 
It comes just weeks after the college program won the coveted NCWA National Championship in Louisiana on April 3. 
Koki Mayfield told NBC Bay Area this week: “They replied to me saying, ‘This is why we should bring back slavery.'” 
Other comments the two athletes alleged their teammates told them include, “Gay a** n***as… stay off my bed or it’s scraps.” 
“Shut up n***er, U on my bed all the time,” another said. 
The athletes also displayed a text that showed a teammate joke that a person “raped a mother and a child.” 
The school’s wrestling coach held a meeting to address the behavior, but the students said it continued. 
Menlo College president Steven Weiner said he is “committed to maintaining a respectful and inclusive community, and takes all reports of misconduct seriously.” 
“The college has conducted an investigation into the matter and have taken appropriate steps to address it in accordance with their policies and values.” 
The outlet reported that Weiner would not disclose if any students were disciplined due to privacy rules. 
Mayfield and Nimeri hope that speaking out enables others to follow their lead and expose racism. 
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272 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers16%attributed speech228writer words
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Steven Weiner

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0%12.5%25.0%Unattributed Quote-23.2 ptsWriter: 23.2%Steven Weiner: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-17.1 ptsWriter: 17.1%Steven Weiner: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-7.0 ptsWriter: 7.0%Steven Weiner: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-6.6 ptsWriter: 6.6%Steven Weiner: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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