A complaint by a onetime University of Georgia baseball star who sued after being thrown off the team and suspended from classes for a shouting racial slur during a football game was itself thrown out by a federal judge, who ruled that defendants including UGA’s president, Athletic Association and other university officials were protected by qualified immunity, among other factors. 

Adam Sasser, a senior who played first base and left field for the Bulldogs, was attending the Georgia-Tennessee game in October 2018 when, according to court filings and other sources, he began shouting for the starting quarterback to be replaced, yelling “put the (expletive) in!”