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Coaching: Colleges’ (Un)Level Playing Field

Coaching: Colleges’ (Un)Level Playing FieldThe high-profile hiring of Tyrone Willingham as the head football coach at Notre Dame University earlier this year ended an extensive — and controversial — search at the prestigious institution. Although the hiring of an African American by the nation’s most storied football program was significant, the total number of Black […]

April 10, 2002

Madness Beyond March

Madness Beyond MarchThe sports world is one of many windows into American life at which to view race relations. And many people, particularly African Americans, do not like what they see. On one hand, athletics, like the entertainment industry, has been the ticket to fame and fortune for relatively few young Black men and women. […]

April 10, 2002

Old Problem, New Solution?

Old Problem, New Solution?Can programs such as the NCAA’s Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males boost the numbers of Black head coaches, athletic directors?By Pamela BurdmanUntil a month ago, basketball coach Nolan Richardson could have been in line to become one of the few Black athletic directors in the NCAA’s Division I. His boss at […]

April 10, 2002

What Ever Happened to the Conscientious Black Athlete?

What Ever Happened to the Conscientious Black Athlete?And is the Black community expecting too much from today’s sports stars?By Ronald RoachCharles Thomas and Terrence Jason Welton came of age in the Michael Jordan era. As NCAA Division I-A basketball players during the 2001-02 season and in previous years, Thomas and Welton reached a pinnacle of […]

April 10, 2002

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Earlene Armstrong, a professor of entomology at the University of Maryland College Park, has been selected by President Bush as one of 10 national recipients of the 2001 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Armstrong earned bachelor’s and master’s from North Carolina Central University and a doctorate from Cornell […]

February 13, 2002

Eleventh Lawsuit Filed Against University’s Basketball Program

Eleventh Lawsuit Filed Against University’s Basketball ProgramTAMPA, Fla.An 11th woman has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the University of South Florida and its former women’s basketball coach, claiming racist treatment in the program. Last month Iris Fleming became the latest player to file suit in the case and her attorney, Jonathan Alpert, promised that […]

February 13, 2002

SLOW BUT STEADY

SLOW BUT STEADYadvocates seek ways to stimulate top-level participATION among minorities IN COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONAL GOLFFormer Stanford University standout Tiger Woods has single-handedly crushed all racial stereotypes about Blacks’ ability to play golf at the highest collegiate and professional levels. But while Woods’ success has spawned more interest in the game among Blacks, there’s no […]

January 16, 2002

Notre Dame Hires First Black Head Coach

Notre Dame Hires First Black Head CoachSOUTH BEND, Ind.Notre Dame has hired Stanford’s Tyrone Willingham to coach one of the most widely followed college football programs in the country. Willingham becomes the first Black head coach in any sport at Notre Dame, which is looking to move past the embarrassment of its previous coach’s resignation […]

January 16, 2002

Most Sports Organizations Are Far from Achieving Racial, Gender Equity

Most Sports Organizations Are Far from Achieving Racial, Gender Equity BOSTONOnly the WNBA and the NBA are close to genuine equity when it comes to opportunities for women and people of color in professional and decision-making positions in pro, Olympic and college sports, according to a report released last month. The two organizations were the […]

August 15, 2001

There’s a Football Revival Goin’ On

There’s a Football Revival Goin’ OnWithin the last two years, five historically Black colleges have dusted the cobwebs off their football programs. By Craig T. GreenleeStrange as it might sound, football’s recent revival at the smaller Black colleges is all about the bottom line. True, it is an expensive sport to maintain. That’s why schools […]

August 1, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Fired USF Basketball Coach Should Be Reinstated, Judge Says

Fired USF Basketball Coach Should Be Reinstated, Judge SaysTAMPA, Fla. A judge recently recommended that the fired coach of the University of South Florida’s women’s basketball team be reinstated, saying the university did not prove she mistreated the team’s Black players. Jerry Ann Winters should receive back pay for the months she has been out […]

August 1, 2001

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Coach’s Racial-Profiling Complaint

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Coach’s Racial-Profiling ComplaintWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court refused to revive claims by a women’s college basketball coach that Texas police arrested her and two others solely because they are Black. The court’s action, taken without comment earlier this month, rejected arguments from Hampton University coach Patricia Bibbs that Lubbock police engaged in […]

June 20, 2001

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