This paper examines the role of media bias and framing in the coverage of racial abuse in Italian professional soccer. For this study, I chose three instances of racial abuse suffered by Mario Balotelli, Romelu Lukaku, and Kalidou Koulibaly from the 2019-2020 Italian Serie A season. The first incident occurred during a soccer match between Inter Milan and Cagliari on September 1, 2019, where Romelu Lukaku, a Belgian soccer player of African descent who plays with Inter Milan, suffered racial abuse from fans who directed monkey chants at him, after he scored a goal. The second incident involved a match between Roma and Napoli on November 2, 2019, where Kalidou Koulibaly, a French Senegalese soccer player who plays with Napoli, suffered racial abuse from fans who directed monkey chants at him. The third incident occurred during a match the following day between Brescia and Hellas Verona on November 3, 2019, where Mario Balotelli, an Italian player born to Ghanaian parents in Italy and later adopted by an Italian family, suffered racial abuse from fans who directed monkey chants at him. This paper explores the media coverage of these events in the months that followed. I collected 43 news articles from international media outlets to analyze how they covered these instances of racial abuse and how framing shaped the conversation about racism in sports. The research was guided by the following question: What patterns of reporting can be identified in the articles covering the three incidents of racial abuse occurring in Serie A professional soccer in Italy? The results of the thematic analysis indicated that two major themes emerged from the media coverage: 1) Downplaying racism and 2) Deflecting responsibility for racism by focusing on the player instead of the abuse.