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Clive of Portland – Clive Charles – Soccer Coach Guides University of Portland’s Men’s and Women’s Teams to Record-setting Year

Soccer Coach Guides University of Portland’s Men’s & Women’s Teams to Record-setting Year.

June 16, 2007

Scholar and athlete: in the Arthur Ashe Jr. mold – James Brown, ex-basketball player and TV sports broadcaster – Interview

At the age of 45, Fox TV sports broadcaster James Brown’s athletic and television career has included the stuff of which dream’s are made.

June 16, 2007

1996 Ad

Najuma Fletcher and Nicola Martial have travelled far since their days as aspiring young female athletes in Guyana, South America. Today both are looking forward to graduating — Fletcher with a B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and Martial with a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln And both look forward to the summer Olympic games in Atlanta.

June 16, 2007

Student-athletes at work: NCAA work rule will be ‘difficult to monitor.’ – National Collegiate Athletic Association

In a surprise development at its annual convention, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved new legislation allowing athletes to work part-time jobs during the school year.

June 15, 2007

Shalala, Franklin Receive Images in Excellence Award from Black Coaches Association

University of Miami President Donna Shalala and Bernard Franklin, the NCAA’s senior vice president for governance, membership, education, and research, were each awarded Black Coaches Association 2007 Images in Excellence award during the organization’s annual meeting last week.

June 4, 2007

The Prevalence of Black Females In College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion

If you had a chance to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship in April, you probably noticed that 80 percent of the starters for Rutgers and Tennessee were non-White.

May 30, 2007

“Rez Ball” Gains NCAA Certification Thanks to Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI)

If all goes according to plan, the term “Rez Ball” may soon become part of the mainstream lexicon. The Native American Basketball Invitational, founded in 2003, is helping to bring Indian Country’s unique variation of basketball to the outside world. Long played on Indian reservations, rez ball has finally been certified by the NCAA.

April 9, 2007

Standing Out As Student-Athletes

College sports are huge! And at no time throughout the year is that as evident as during March Madness.

April 4, 2007

NCAA and Gay Rights Group Take On Homophobia In College Sports

The National Center for Lesbian Rights recently announced a settlement in the discrimination lawsuit filed by Jennifer Harris, a former Pennsylvania State University women’s basketball player who sued the school over alleged mistreatment by former coach Rene Portland, who allegedly thought Harris was a lesbian.

April 4, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Farewell To the Chief

American Indian groups and others have largely won their battle over the use of Native images by college sports teams, but the economic backstory is seldom reported.

April 4, 2007

Florida Repeats In 2007 National Championship

The University of Florida joined a short list of college basketball teams that have been able to win back to back National Championships.

April 2, 2007

Just the Stats: The Graduation Success Rates of The Final Four

Each of the Final Four men’s basketball teams competing this weekend for the NCAA championship has a 100 percent graduation rate — but only for their White players. The news is not so good for Black players.

March 28, 2007

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