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Section: Sports
Sports
California Firm Ordered To Pay Damages over HBCU Football Broadcasting Contract Dispute
A sports broadcast promotion company and its owner must pay HBCU Pro Football about $3.5 million for intentional misrepresentation and breach of contract, a federal judge in Baltimore has ruled.
July 6, 2011
Sports
Celebrated New York City Athlete Fatally Stabbed Hours After High School Graduation
An argument over a celebratory high school graduation gift cost Isayah Muller his life: The 19-year-old was fatally stabbed during a fight between his father and two parking attendants thought to have stolen expensive cologne from the backseat of the family’s car.
June 29, 2011
Sports
Friends Remember North Carolina State Hero Lorenzo Charles
Lorenzo Charles was remembered Tuesday for his imposing presence on the court and his gentle demeanor away from it, one day after the hero of the Wolfpack’s most recent championship team was killed in a bus wreck.
June 28, 2011
Sports
2011 Arthur Ashe Jr. Scholar Commits to Wisconsin for Fourth Year of College Football
Former North Carolina State quarterback Russell Wilson is headed to the University of Wisconsin, potentially solving one of the biggest hurdles standing between the Badgers and a Big Ten title.
June 27, 2011
Sports
Ohio State Trustees To Review Athletic Program
Ohio State University trustees will spend up to six weeks reviewing the athletic program after the scandal that led to the suspension of five players and the forced resignation of football coach Jim Tressel.
June 23, 2011
Students
National Urban League, Brady Center Team Up with Plaxico Burress to Prevent Gun Violence
The former wide receiver for the New York Giants will help educate and send an anti-violence message particularly among young people.
June 21, 2011
Sports
NCAA Forum Aims to Increase Minority Head Coaches
Seven African-American coaches, including three former NFL players, participated Friday in The Champion Forum, the top tier of the NCAA’s coaching academy, during a weeklong convention of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
June 19, 2011
Sports
No More National Anthem at Pacifist Indiana College
A small Christian college with ties to the Mennonite Church has decided to stop playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events after some complained the song’s images of war undermined the school’s pacifist message.
June 8, 2011
Students
NCAA President Mark Emmert: Increased Emphasis on Student-Athlete Academic Performance Due in Part to Reforms
There’s a greater emphasis on the performance of student-athletes in the classroom—thanks in part to academic reforms of the National Collegiate Athletic Association over the past decade, NCAA president Mark Emmert told a national group of academic advisors on Saturday.
June 5, 2011
Sports
Perspective: While Spurrier Plan To Pay Players is Self-Serving, It Opens Door to More Dialogue
Stop pretending college football is anything but the big-time business it really is and start paying the employees whose hard work generate the revenue to begin with, a sports columnist writes.
June 4, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Saint Paul’s Athletes Face School With No Sports
More than 250 student athletes at St. Paul’s College are left with a tough decision — stay at the historically Black Virginia college and give up their sport or transfer in hopes of finding a new team and a new academic home.
May 30, 2011
Students
HBCU Conference Schools Take Big Hits in Latest NCAA Academic Progress Report
The NCAA banned Jackson State and Southern of the Southwestern Athletic Conference from postseason play in football next season and did the same thing for Southern and Grambling in men’s basketball.
May 24, 2011
Sports
WNBA Names New York University Student as a Leader of Tomorrow
Tonya Ingram, who recently completed her second year at New York University, was named the BBVA Leader of Tomorrow by the Women’s National Basketball Association.
May 24, 2011
Students
Taking Action to Abandon Offensive American Indian Mascots Often Mired in Controversy
Six years ago, the National Collegiate Athletic Association adopted a policy that penalizes schools that use American Indian mascots, nicknames or logos.
May 18, 2011
Students
Should College Athletes Be Paid?
While a winning athletic program can bring millions of dollars and instant notoriety to a school, some say college athletes are getting played in the process.
May 16, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Perspective: Increase Diversity Among Division I College Football Coaches
Bringing the Rooney Rule to the collegiate level would help increase diversity among head football coaches, athletic directors and conference commissioners.
May 9, 2011
Sports
Jury: Grambling State University Owes Fired Coach $460,500
Grambling attorney John Madison Jr. said the university will appeal the award, which includes $11,000 in penalty wages and $449,500 for breach of contract.
May 8, 2011
Sports
Pitt Event To Celebrate Black Athletes
This Tuesday, Bobby Grier, along with many other of the University of Pittsburgh’s African-American athletes, will have the opportunity to tell stories as they are celebrated at an event called “Athletics at Pitt: A Century at the Forefront of Change.”
May 8, 2011
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