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Section: Sports

Grace and elan: 1996 Arthur Ashe nominations – awards for athletic and academic excellence – Cover Story

For the third year in a row, Black Issues In Higher Education honors college students of color who excel in both their academic and their athletic pursuits. They have all proved their commitment to the pursuit of excellence by working hard and — literally — playing by the rules.

June 16, 2007

Small schools – Where Football Is An Activity, Not a Business

In college football, the big schools win and the small schools struggle.

June 16, 2007

Sneaker madness: historically black schools no shoe-in for lucrative deals

Before the Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU) men’s basketball team got booted from the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s 1996 tournament, the historically Black school got sneakered.

June 16, 2007

Clive of Portland – Clive Charles – Soccer Coach Guides University of Portland’s Men’s and Women’s Teams to Record-setting Year

Soccer Coach Guides University of Portland’s Men’s & Women’s Teams to Record-setting Year.

June 16, 2007

Racial harmony and a first down – experiences of a head coach at Illinois University

I was recently asked, “Why do you think it is important. as a coach, to take the lead in building bridges across racial and cultural lines in athletics?” Succinctly. I would say it would have to do with my background, my resolve and my opportunity. Let me expand on that reaction.

June 16, 2007

Scholar and athlete: in the Arthur Ashe Jr. mold – James Brown, ex-basketball player and TV sports broadcaster – Interview

At the age of 45, Fox TV sports broadcaster James Brown’s athletic and television career has included the stuff of which dream’s are made.

June 16, 2007

Sports, competition and society – athletic and academic competition seen as outcome of a competitive society

Sixty-four teams from historically Black colleges and universities competed on the basis of their knowledge at the Honda Campus All-Star Classic in Orlando FL. The final four competition was as intense as the basketball classic, and Black America’s best and brightest strutted their intellectual stuff as confidently as star basketball players strut their gamesmanship.

June 16, 2007

Days of Grace. – book reviews

Days of Grace, Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad, One world-Ballantine Books, 1996, $7.99 (softcover).

June 16, 2007

1996 Ad

Najuma Fletcher and Nicola Martial have travelled far since their days as aspiring young female athletes in Guyana, South America. Today both are looking forward to graduating — Fletcher with a B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and Martial with a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln And both look forward to the summer Olympic games in Atlanta.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Mfume: ‘it’s all right now to come back home.’ – Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president, views on role of youth in civil rights struggles

Winston-salem, NC The nation’s Colleges will be the incubators for new soldiers in America’s civil rights struggle, Kweisi Mfume told a group of students.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Embattled Jackson State President seeks promised funds for deficit – James Lyons, Sr – Recruitment & Retention

JACKSON, MS Beleaugered Jackson State University President James Lyons Sr. has asked the state legislature to erase a third of a university deficit that could exceed $3 million.

June 15, 2007

Student-athletes at work: NCAA work rule will be ‘difficult to monitor.’ – National Collegiate Athletic Association

In a surprise development at its annual convention, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved new legislation allowing athletes to work part-time jobs during the school year.

June 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

UDC cuts out athletics – The University of the District of Columbia

WASHINGTON, D.C. The University of the District of Columbia will eliminate its inter-collegiate athletics program in order to save money in its attempt to stay afloat despite drastic cuts in its budget.

June 15, 2007

Presidential transitions – the appointment of the president of Smith College

Higher education rode a roller coaster in 1995, a year of actions that provoked rage and hope, sorrow and joy.

June 15, 2007

Athletes, outcasts and partyers – films about African Americans in higher education

Films about African Americans in higher education are a relatively new phenomenon but they, like other films about Blacks, still frequently resort to stereotypes.

June 15, 2007

Former Purdue Star Jannon Lampley Named Women’s Basketball Coach at St. Joseph’s College

RENSSELAER Ind. Jannon Lampley, former Big Ten player of the year at Purdue, was named women’s basketball coach Friday at St. Joseph’s College.

June 14, 2007

Chasing More Than Just Wins

Black women coaches hope to inspire the next generation of athletes.

June 13, 2007

Black Women Coaches Hope to Inspire the Next Generation

Recent appointments of Black women coaches – like that of Cochese Washington at Penn State – raise the profile of African American women in Division I athletics, and provide hope and inspiration to the next generation.

June 13, 2007

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