Matthew Stevens, 29, had been the Mississippi State University sports beat writer for The Commercial Dispatch for about 2 1/2 years. [...]
Along with radio show co-hosts Joel Coleman and Brian Hadad, Stevens spoke about Lafayette and its people Wednesday during "The Full Court Press," a regular feature on internet station Bulldog Sports Radio.
"I'm not going to go as far as to say that they're not people," Stevens said during the show. "But I don't know what they are because they don't speak English - and it's not French - but I don't know what it is."
Hadad responded with, "They're the missing link - if you believe in evolution - between apes and humans, there's Cajuns."