Friday Backpasses: Never yell Meggers in a crowd

Two high school girls' teams get snippy because, depending on whom you believe, either there were racial epithets, or kids' names sound like racial epithets [News Channel 34]
French football may be heading to a showdown strike by the end of the month [The Offside]
Robinho has no faith in his Brazilian teammates [Reuters UK]

Player has to retire due to testicular cancer [Guardian]
Chelsea want their Mikel money back [Guardian]
Former Lithuanian NT coach heads to parliament. We are only a short time away from Senator Steve Sampson [Taipei Times]

And, finally:
A necessary question. Where are the MLS expansion temas going to get their talent from? [SI]