Tag: Coaches: Page 17

Sports

Breaking Color Barrier Not Unique to Auburn’s First Black Head Basketball Coach

Auburn University’s Tony Barbee has impressive credentials as a Memphis assistant and a four-year head coach at UTEP, where he led the Miners to the Conference USA regular-season title and NCAA tournament appearance this past season.

March 28, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Black Trustee Flap Sparks S.C. Football Boycott Effort

South Carolina Black lawmakers are urging Black football recruits to reconsider playing for the University of South Carolina because the school could lose its lone Black trustee.

March 24, 2010

Sports

Reviews: Catching Up on the Black History Book Bounty

Biographies of the legendary basketball coach Nolan Richardson and the late jazz singer Nina Simone were among the volumes released during the publishing industry’s February push to launch books documenting the Black experience in America.

March 8, 2010

Sports

Payton, Rice and Robinson Lead First Black College Football Hall Class

Historically Black institution icons Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, Deacon Jones and former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson were among the first set of honorees inducted into the Black College Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.

February 22, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Diversity a Winner in NFL Head Coach Hires; Minorities Gaining Modest Ground in College Ranks

While progress in minority head coach hiring in the NFL is on display with the fourth African-American leading a Super Bowl team this weekend, the college ranks have seen their less-than-stellar record in top coaching hires improve in recent months.

February 4, 2010

Sports

Eddie Robinson Museum Opening Feb. 13

Almost a decade after the Legislature authorized a state museum to honor former Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson, it will open on what would have been his 91st birthday.

February 2, 2010

Sports

Eddie Robinson Museum Opening Feb. 13

Almost a decade after the Legislature authorized a state museum to honor former Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson, it will open on what would have been his 91st birthday.

February 2, 2010

Leadership & Policy

East Carolina Tabs McNeill as Holtz’s Replacement

East Carolina University has turned to former Texas Tech defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill to replace Skip Holtz, making the East Carolina alumnus the 16th minority to hold a head coaching job in the 120-team NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision.

January 21, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Athletes Play for Pride, Coaches Get Bonuses

The players at Texas and Alabama will compete tonight for the chance to be called national champions and for a beautiful crystal trophy to be placed outside their locker room while their coaches stand to make hundreds of thousands of dollars.

January 6, 2010

Sports

University of Kentucky Set to Name Phillips as Head Football Coach

The University of Kentucky is set to elevate Joker Phillips, a veteran of the Wildcat football coaching staff and a former player, to lead the school’s football team.

January 5, 2010

Sports

U. of Alabama Football’s Integration Legacy Revisited

Matched against the University of Texas, the University of Alabama’s quest to win the national championship at the Rose Bowl this week recalls turning point for southern college football in early 1970s.

January 3, 2010

Sports

Buffalo Search for Turner Gill Replacement Begins

What should make University of Buffalo athletic director Warde Manuel’s job easy in replacing football coach Turner Gill is the admirable job Gill, who is slated to become the first African-American head football coach at the University of Kansas, fulfilled in bringing respectability to what had been one of nation’s most laughable football programs.

December 14, 2009