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Sports

Racial and Gender Hiring Practices in College Sports Backslide

Institute calls the new report card the worst in many years.

February 19, 2009

Sports

North Carolina State women’s basketball coach dies

North Carolina State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow died Jan. 24 in Cary, N.C., after a two-decade fight with cancer.  Yow was 66. Yow announced earlier this month that she would not return this season after she missed four games because of an extremely low energy level. Yow was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987; in […]

January 25, 2009

Sports

Ski Coach Uses Flashcards to Bridge Language Gap

The Nordic skiing coach at Jackson Hole High School and his assistants were having trouble communicating with the two freshmen members from Mexico City, who spoke almost no English.

January 13, 2009

Sports

Tony Dungy Trades Football for Family, Social Work

Tony Dungy defied one myth earlier this week: He does show emotion. He also stuck to his principles. With tears in his eyes and his voice cracking, Dungy said goodbye to the Indianapolis Colts and the NFL, then, in typical Dungy fashion, looked optimistically toward life’s next challenges.

January 13, 2009

Sports

Native Americans Proud of Bradford’s Heisman

Since Sam Bradford won the Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious individual honor in college football, earlier this month, Native Americans have been basking in the glow.

December 21, 2008

Sports

London: First Black Head Football Coach in National Championship in 30 Years

The amazing playoff run of the Richmond Spiders will climax in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this Friday against the University of Montana on ESPN at the FCS National Championship.

December 17, 2008

Sports

Attorney: Alcorn State Coach Fired

Alcorn State football coach Ernest T. Jones has been fired days after filing a lawsuit seeking the reinstatement of seven assistant coaches, his attorney said Thursday.

December 14, 2008

Sports

Alabama State Football Program Placed on Probation

Alabama State University’s football program was placed on five years’ probation by the NCAA on Wednesday and must forfeit all games won in the 2000 and 2001 seasons, including the 2001 Southwestern Athletic Conference championship.

December 10, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Shannon: Seeing Black Coach Number Fall to 3 ‘Sad’

Of the 65 coaches leading programs affiliated with the Bowl Championship Series, Miami’s Randy Shannon is about to stand alone.

December 4, 2008

Sports

Too Hot To Handle Web sites Baffle College Officials

One ill-fated lapse in cyber-judgment by a college athlete has cost him his position on one of the top football teams in the country.

November 19, 2008

Sports

Group Hires Lawyer To Address Dearth of Black College Football Coaches

The number of Black college football coaches is going in the wrong direction, according to the latest hiring report card issued Wednesday by the Black Coaches and Administrators (BCA).

November 12, 2008

Sports

Coaching Pioneer Willie Jefferies Reflects on the Ernie Davis Era

More than 140 years after the abolition of slavery Blacks are still taking note of who is the first to make major breakthroughs in a number of areas of American life.

October 9, 2008