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Much Ado About Nothing?

Temple Coach Baffled by Concerns About Athletes’ Lower Graduation Rates

July 14, 2007

In sports, those making the off-the field decision remain overwhelmingly White – Coaches Cornered: The 1997 Racial Report Card

With so many Black athletes claiming center stage in the sports universe, one might be inclined to declare that athletics is the one slice of American life where equal opportunity abounds. Some might even say that sports represent a model of ethnic diversity that should be admired and emulated by all.

July 12, 2007

Coaches cornered: the 1997 racial report card; the future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action

The future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action

July 12, 2007

Minority Hiring Not Making the Grade in Collegiate Sports

BOSTON The grades are in for minority hiring in college sports, and they’re lousy.

July 12, 2007

The pied piper of college golf – National Minority Junior Golf Scholarship Assn. founder and Pres. Bill Dickey

Bill Dicky More Than Just a Fairway Friend to College-Bound Youth

July 11, 2007

Prominence multiplied in Division I-AA: Hampton led cadre of black college hopefuls into football postseason – Hampton University

Time was, when you mentioned HU and Black college football supremacy, you were talking about storied Howard University.

July 11, 2007

Colleges Use Courts To Keep Agents, Boosters Away From Student-Athletes

The NCAA announced Wednesday that the Oklahoma Sooners eight wins from the 2005 season would be invalidated because two players employed by a booster received pay for jobs they didn’t actually work. The athletics department will face other athletic sanctions as well. States and colleges, trying to avoid situations like that, are increasingly turning to the courts to help protect the integrity of big-time college athletics.

July 11, 2007

A suggestion for college coaches: teach by example

While most will remember the 1997 National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) men’s basketball Final Four Tournament for the University of Arizona’s improbable run to a national championship, the most significant collegiate sports event of that particular weekend occurred off the court.

July 11, 2007

States and colleges are increasingly turning to the courts to help protect the integrity of big-time college athletics.

States and colleges are increasingly turning to the courts to help protect the integrity of big-time college athletics.

July 11, 2007

Black coaches convention focuses on job-hunting strategies; collegiate athletic directors, sensitized to concerns, participate in interview clinics

Concerned about the paucity of Black coaches and athletics administrators on college campuses, the Black Coaches Association (BCA) devoted a major portion of its annual conference, held last month in Miami, to helping its members prepare and successfully compete for positions in higher education.

July 10, 2007

Changing the complexion of collegiate golf; Andy Walker helps pave the way by helping Pepperdine to NCAA championship – National Collegiate Athletic Association

Please don’t call Andy Walker the next Tiger Woods. He’s too busy being the first Andy Walker.

July 10, 2007

Louisiana HBCU Loses Several Football Players Because of Academic Ineligibility

BATON ROUGE La. Nine Southern University football players including several starters will not be with the program this fall, coach Pete Richardson said.

July 9, 2007

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