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Section: Sports
Students
Game Delay: Latinos Not Yet Scoring With College Athletics
Despite their growing presence in professional sports, Latinos remain underrepresented in collegiate athletics.
October 4, 2010
Sports
Minority Coach Watch: Black Coaches Lead Two Teams in Top 25 Games in Week Five
The University of Miami’s Randy Shannon remains the only minority head Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) coach whose team is ranked in the Associated Press’ Top 25.
September 30, 2010
Students
Special Report: Puerto Rico’s Eleven Campuses, One University, Many Strikes
The two-month-long student strike that shuttered 10 of 11 University of Puerto Rico campuses this year has been settled, but the underlying issues that contributed to the unrest are far from resolved.
September 22, 2010
Sports
Latina Athletic Director Thrives on Learning and Teaching
As the athletic director at St. Francis College, a Division I institution in Brooklyn, N.Y., Irma Garcia finds fulfillment in teaching others the rules of sports and sports administration.
September 21, 2010
Sports
Lawsuits Seek to Compensate College Athletes
Ed O’Bannon was a star basketball player at UCLA. His lawsuit seeks a share of the money the NCAA earns from licensing former players’ images in commercials, DVDs, video games and elsewhere. (photo courtesy of UCLA)
September 20, 2010
Sports
Minority Coach Watch: Black Head Coaches Lead Three Teams in Top 25 Games This Week
This week, Kevin Sumlin steered the University of Houston into the Associated Press’ Top 25 rankings at No. 23. The third-year head coach has guided 2-0 Houston to lopsided victories against visiting Texas State and UTEP.
September 16, 2010
Sports
Black Coaches Help Launch Groundbreaking College Football Season
The 2010 college football season has more Blacks leading Football Bowl Subdivision teams as head coaches than ever before.
September 9, 2010
Sports
New Maryland Athletic Director Anderson Sets High Goals for Terps
During an introduction as Maryland’s new athletic director, Kevin Anderson thanked his predecessor for putting the school in the upper echelon of the nation’s sports programs.
September 7, 2010
Sports
First African-American Hired as University of Maryland Athletic Director
The University of Maryland named Kevin Anderson as its new athletic director Saturday. Anderson previously held the same job for 5 1/2 years at Army.
September 6, 2010
Sports
The Joyners: An HBCU Basketball Coaching Dynasty
For Edward Joyner Jr. (pictured), the family business takes place on the hardwood and is rooted in historically Black colleges and universities, where Edward Jr.; his father, Edward; his uncle, Stephen; and his cousin, Stephen Jr., are all head basketball coaches.
September 1, 2010
Sports
Miami’s Randy Shannon Enters New Season With Confidence
A new four-year contract was hammered out in May, giving University of Miami head football coach Randy Shannon some measure of security. And with a depth chart that’s finally loaded to his liking, Shannon thinks he might have the kind of team he needs to get the Hurricanes thinking about winning college football’s biggest prize.
August 31, 2010
Students
FBI Tracked Desegregation Suit Against Alabama’s Bear Bryant
Fans weren’t the only ones watching Alabama football between 1969 and 1971. The FBI, apparently with the approval of director J. Edgar Hoover, was secretly keeping an eye on a civil rights lawsuit filed by Blacks against legendary coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant during the same period.
August 23, 2010
Sports
Ga. State Starts New Program in Tough Economy
Georgia State is one of six institutions, including South Alabama and Notre Dame College, launching football programs this year, amid a tough fundraising environment.
August 22, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Saint Augustine’s Dianne Suber Urges News Media Confidence by Black Colleges
The Saint Augustine’s College president says public relations is as important to a college as any other campus initiative, and her school has positive national television exposure to prove it.
August 19, 2010
Sports
Coaching Diversity Slowly Rising at FBS Schools
First-year head college football coaches Joker Phillips and Charlie Strong are among a dozen Black head coaches at FBS schools, triple the number of Black head coaches two years ago.
August 12, 2010
Sports
Mississippi Flag Could Hurt Bid for SEC Baseball Tourney
The Confederate symbol on the Mississippi flag could hurt the state’s bid to host the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament starting in 2012 because some people find the emblem offensive, a top conference official said Tuesday.
August 11, 2010
Sports
College Track Coach and Former Olympian Antonio Pettigrew Found Dead
St. Augustine’s College alumnus Antonio Pettigrew, a sprinter stripped of an Olympic gold medal after admitting to doping, was found dead in the backseat of his locked car near Raleigh, N.C. early Tuesday.
August 10, 2010
Sports
Cost of Knight Academic Center for Athletes Raises Concern
The University of Oregon academic center for athletes that opened in January, paid for entirely by benefactor Phil Knight, cost about twice as much per square foot as Portland’s priciest condo buildings, according to documents released to The Oregonian.
August 9, 2010
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