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Sports: Page 170

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Days of Grace. – book reviews

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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