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Black Players Drop to 8.2 Percent of Major Leaguers

Major League Baseball received its best grade for racial diversity in hiring, even as the percentage of Black players dropped again last year.

April 15, 2008

ESPN Documentary on the HBCU Athletes Who Desegregated College Sports Scores Big

The stories of Black athletes integrating professional sports are legendary.

March 27, 2008

So You Want to Be a Coach?

In 2000, the NCAA took a look at the number of minority women who were head coaches in Division I women’s college basketball and the statistics were underwhelming — only 19 head coaches out of 330 programs.

March 20, 2008

11 Black Head Coaches are in The 2008 NCAA National Tournament

This year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship field of 65 has 11 teams lead by Black head coaches.

March 19, 2008

No. 1 Seeds Lag Academically

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was the only school among the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA men’s tournament to graduate at least 50 percent of its players.

March 17, 2008

NCAA Places Lane College on 4 Year Probation

The NCAA has placed Lane College on probation for four years for major violations in its Division II athletic program.

February 28, 2008

Fisk Athletic Programs to Change from NCAA to Intramural

NASHVILLE Tenn. Financially strapped Fisk is dropping its NCAA Division III athletic programs for an intramural and club sports system. University officials announced Thursday the change will be effective in May, saying it will better match the historically Black university’s mission and resources while helping the school save nearly $500,000. Spokesman Ken West says the […]

February 21, 2008

Florida Sate Puts Its Teams on Probation

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Florida State’s sports teams will be on self-imposed probation for two years and some will lose scholarships because of an academic cheating scandal, the university said in a report released Thursday. About 60 student-athletes also have or will suffer some loss of eligibility. Two staffers, a tutor and learning specialist, already had been […]

February 13, 2008

Tribe Likely to Vote on UND Nickname

BISMARCK N.D. Members of the Spirit Lake Nation likely will vote on whether to support the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname, the tribe’s leader says. Chairwoman Myra Pearson said Saturday that the tribe has grown tired of the issue. “It’s been something that’s not as important as our health care or housing or […]

February 3, 2008

NCAA Gives Texas A&M $100,000 Grant to Study Diversity Practices in College Athletics

In an effort to promote diversity in Division I athletics, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has given Texas A&M’s Laboratory for Diversity in Sport a $100,000 grant to identify colleges and universities that develop outstanding diversity practices in their athletic departments. Texas A&M’s Laboratory for Diversity in Sport will use the grant to conduct research, […]

January 30, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Lack Of Black Coordinators Leads to Few Head Coaching Opportunities

If being a provost or vice president for academic affairs is a necessary last stop before becoming a college president, then putting in time as an offensive or defensive coordinator should be the surefire pathway to landing a highly coveted and lucrative collegiate football head coaching position. But for Blacks, the pipeline to the head coaching slot is choked at the coordinator level.

January 24, 2008

Presidents Play Key Role in Spreading Diversity in College Coaching Ranks

NASHVILLE Tenn. University of Cincinnati president Nancy Zimpher has hired a football coach, men’s basketball coach and women’s basketball coach in the past 16 months. What she wanted in candidates couldn’t have been clearer. “I think the athletic director knew not even to bring the pool to me until it was representative,” Zimpher said Friday […]

January 13, 2008

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