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Louisiana HBCU Loses Several Football Players Because of Academic Ineligibility

BATON ROUGE La. Nine Southern University football players including several starters will not be with the program this fall, coach Pete Richardson said.

UCLA Hires New Director of Basketball Operations

LOS ANGELES Joe Hillock, the women’s coach at Southern Utah for 10 years, has been hired as director of operations for the UCLA men’s basketball program.

UNO Coach Williams Resigns After One Season

NEW ORLEANS University of New Orleans head basketball coach Buzz Williams resigned Friday, departing after only one season with the Privateers.

1997 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards

For the fourth year, black Issues In Higher Education is proud to present our Arthur Ashe Jr. Athlete of the Year to two outstanding students.

Title IX: does help for women come at the expense of African Americans?

Gender equity has created an intriguing set of circumstances in the world of college athletics.

Leadership & Policy

Moving on up: the allure and the aggravation of becoming a Division I school

Eight year a ago, Dr. William R. Harvey had a vision. The Hampton University president was convinced that with the right approach, the school could hold its own at the highest level of collegiate competition. Now that is is clear that Harvey’s vision was not just a case of wishful thinking, there appears to be another school — Norfolk State University (NSU) — ready to follow his lead.

An NCAA tournament de force performance – Coppin State College

It was as shocking as it was improbable. As a result, some are calling Coppin State College’s dramatic win over the University of South Carolina in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Tournament the single most significant victory in the history of sports at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

There is more to life than sports: getting brothers to take the road less traveled

Based on recent statistics released during the Jackie Robinson celebration on “Nightline,” 70 percent of the players in the National Football League are African American, 80 percent in the National Basketball Association, and 19 percent in Major League Baseball. That’s fewer than 1,400 Black men on professional contract.

The true significance of sports for Black Americans

I am not a sports fan. I’ve written that so many times it seems redundant to write it again. No, this is not another sports-bashing column. Been there, done that. This is a column about the context of sports, about the reasons why sports has been so important for African American people.

In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. – book reviews

Like former talk-show host Arsenio Hall, Kenneth L. Shropshire, in his excellent book, In Black and White: Race and Sports in America, discusses things that make you go “HMMMMM?”

Arthur Ashe and the next generation of student athletes – Sports Scholars

With all the attention that we have finally come to pay to Arthur Ashe as a pioneering professional athlete and humanitarian it is easy to forget that Ashe was first an incredible college student-athlete at the University of California Los Angeles in the 1960s.

Faculty & Staff

Suit threatens status of Georgia’s public Black universities

ATLANTA Alumni and supporters of Georgia’s historically Black public colleges and universities are beginning to mobilize in reaction to a law suit filed last month that seeks to increase white enrollment at those schools.

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