Saint Louis University investigates team's racist texts

First reported last week by the school's student newspaper, the texts were sent in May using the group messaging app GroupMe, with one likening President Barack Obama to a "watermelon eatin baboon."

The two players haven't been publicly identified, and one of them no longer attends the 198-year-old Jesuit school, according to Jonathan C. Smith, who was made the campus' special assistant to the president for diversity and community engagement last year in the wake of the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

The questioned texts came roughly a year after a pair of racially insensitive incidents on the campus: A group of candles set outside a dorm for a vigil were rearranged into a swastika symbol, and a projector in a campus ballroom was altered to display several racist and anti-gay messages.