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Section: Sports

A Legacy of Leadership

A tireless leader, volunteer and scholar,Kenneth Avila’s impact goes beyond the baseball field.

May 27, 2009

Coach Keeling: The Rescuer

Throughout his three-decades-long sports career, Rudy Keeling has been a builder.

May 27, 2009

Capital Gains For Richmond

Arthur Ashe Jr.’s hometown amasses a surprising athletic leadership profile.

May 27, 2009

Honing Athletic Skills, Academics at Community Colleges

Athletic programs build community and help mold a student’s identity.

May 27, 2009

When Eligibility Is Over

Too often Black student-athletes are left unprepared for life after collegiate sports.

May 27, 2009

Shaq Takes Crash Course in Broadcast at Syracuse University

NBA star Shaquille O’Neal is back in university, taking a crash course designed to teach athletes about the broadcasting industry.

May 19, 2009

BOOK REVIEW: Creatiing a Class: College Admissions and the Education of the Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens

It is not by chance that Dr. Mitchell L. Stevens, the author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of the Elites (Harvard University Press, 2007), appropriately chooses the word “class” in his book titles.

May 12, 2009

Percentage of Black Players in MLB Rises

The percentage of Black players in the major leagues increased to 10.2 percent last year, the first rise since the 1995 season.

April 15, 2009

Grad Rates for Black College Athletes Increase

ORLANDO Fla. Black college athletes are graduating at higher rates than in the past. The Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for Black athletes is 62 percent in 2009, up from 59 percent three years ago, according to a report released Monday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. […]

April 6, 2009

Lapchick on a Mission: Focusing on the Student in Student-Athlete

As the best of men’s college basketball converge in Detroit this weekend for the Final Four and the women’s game faces its National Championship test in St. Louis, it’s appropriate to take a moment and remember that these incredible players are students.

April 2, 2009

Leadership & Policy

March Madness for Tribal Colleges

Sunday presented a sweet feeling of accomplishment for Andrae Domebo and Dani Augare.

March 26, 2009

March Madness 2009’s Diversity in Leadership

This year’s 2009 NCAA Tournament field of 65 teams includes 14 teams that have Black head coaches.

March 19, 2009

Racial Graduation Gap Persists on Men¡¯s Basketball Teams

Fourteen women¡¯s basketball teams in the NCAA tournament have perfect graduation rates, while a graduation gap persists between White and Black student-athletes on the men¡¯s teams.

March 17, 2009

Scenes From CIAA

Sights from the Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association (CIAA), courtesy of The Charlotte Observer. Photos by Yalonda M. James and T. Ortega Gaines.

March 3, 2009

CIAA, Double the Pleasure for JCSU

The Johnson C. Smith University men’s basketball team, the Golden Bulls, seized their second consecutive Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association (CIAA) championship by defeating Virginia Union University 70-63 Saturday night at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., before an overflow crowd.

March 2, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Indiana U’s Plan to Add Name of Black Basketball Star to Building Named for a Segregationist is Opposed

The widow of the Big Ten’s first Black basketball player says no one from Indiana University ever asked her about possibly adding his name to a campus gymnasium named for a trustee who advocated segregation in the 1940s.

February 26, 2009

CIAA Tournament Provides Much More Than Basketball

Over five weeks last year this city hosted three basketball tournaments, including the Atlantic Coast Conference men and the NCAA East Regional.

February 25, 2009

Are Minority Football Players Being Pushed Into Pointless Majors?

Paper raises “clustering” question, but critics dismiss it as too superficial.

February 22, 2009