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Restoring the Talent Pipeline

Restoring the Talent PipelineEven though Black college baseball is going through its own facelift of sorts, the game’s observers believe that a concerted effort at the grass-roots level can spur a larger number of Black youngsters to play the sport at an early age, which in turn would help restore the talent pipeline to colleges […]

Black College Baseball’s Uncertain Future

Black College Baseball’s Uncertain FutureFacing a dearth of African American talent and a lack of institutional support, HBCU programs seek alternative strategies to field competitive teams. Black college baseball is not what it used to be. And there’s little chance that it will ever be the same again. The glory years, many say, are gone for […]

Faculty & Staff

Fired Athletic Director, Connecticut College Reach Settlement

Fired Athletic Director, Connecticut College Reach SettlementNEW LONDON, Conn.Connecticut College has reached a settlement with a former athletic director who had accused college administrators of racial discrimination. In March, the college decided not to reappoint Kenneth McBryde, 49, who was hired as athletic director and an adjunct professor in 1997.McBryde, who is Black, claimed in […]

Progress Slow for Minority Football Coaches

Progress Slow for Minority Football CoachesEAST LANSING, Mich.Despite some recent high-profile hirings, progress has been slow for minority football coaches at universities, according to participants in a conference at Michigan State University. Among Division I-A schools, there have been 348 head football coaching vacancies since 1982, but only 19 Blacks hired to fill those positions, […]

Letters

Dear EDITOR:In your April column of the “Last Word,” (April 11) Hill et al. suggested that a deeper investigation needs to be conducted concerning the hiring processes for NCAA Division I-A football. Although I agree with this and most of the other points that were presented, obtaining relevant and meaningful data would be extremely difficult […]

Courting Success: A New Method for Motivating Urban Black Males

Courting Success: A New Method for Motivating Urban Black MalesDespite the great strides Black males have made over the last several decades in education, too often we are reminded of their struggle by statistical publications, media depictions and entertainment caricatures that hypothesize their gradual extinction from mainstream society. This extinction from society is shown to […]

Coaching: Colleges’ (Un)Level Playing Field

Coaching: Colleges’ (Un)Level Playing FieldThe high-profile hiring of Tyrone Willingham as the head football coach at Notre Dame University earlier this year ended an extensive — and controversial — search at the prestigious institution. Although the hiring of an African American by the nation’s most storied football program was significant, the total number of Black […]

Madness Beyond March

Madness Beyond MarchThe sports world is one of many windows into American life at which to view race relations. And many people, particularly African Americans, do not like what they see. On one hand, athletics, like the entertainment industry, has been the ticket to fame and fortune for relatively few young Black men and women. […]

A Real Team Player

A Real Team Player Wofford College’s Ben Foster makes doing for others a daily priority and a future goal.By Lydia LumPicture the average running back, sprinting down the field, rushing yards and scoring touchdowns. Then picture Wofford College’s Ben Foster, who is better known for his blocking than for rushing and scoring — a fact […]

Balancing Books and the Beam

Balancing Books and the BeamMaryland gymnast prioritizes by putting academics first.By Eleanor Lee YatesWhen Carlla Johnson was very young, her parents enrolled her in a variety of classes. She took ballet, piano and gymnastics, among other things. But within a few years it was evident that Johnson, known as Kit, had a real talent and […]

Old Problem, New Solution?

Old Problem, New Solution?Can programs such as the NCAA’s Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males boost the numbers of Black head coaches, athletic directors?By Pamela BurdmanUntil a month ago, basketball coach Nolan Richardson could have been in line to become one of the few Black athletic directors in the NCAA’s Division I. His boss at […]

What Ever Happened to the Conscientious Black Athlete?

What Ever Happened to the Conscientious Black Athlete?And is the Black community expecting too much from today’s sports stars?By Ronald RoachCharles Thomas and Terrence Jason Welton came of age in the Michael Jordan era. As NCAA Division I-A basketball players during the 2001-02 season and in previous years, Thomas and Welton reached a pinnacle of […]

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