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College Ordered to Pay Ex-Athletic Director $1.5 Million

College Ordered to Pay Ex-Athletic Director $1.5 MillionBy Eric FreedmanAUBURN, Wash.Green River Community College must pay its former athletic director $1.5 million for racial discrimination and defamation, the Washington Court of Appeals has ruled. However, the three-judge panel trimmed about $500,000 from the original $2 million trial verdict, finding insufficient evidence for Michael McGraw’s wrongful […]

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Confederate Flag-Waving Appeal

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Confederate Flag-Waving AppealWASHINGTONA legal effort to resurrect the waving of Confederate battle flags at college football games in Mississippi died earlier this month in the Supreme Court. The court declined to take the appeal of a flag-carrying spectator who had been asked to leave a University of Mississippi football game […]

Most Sports Organizations Are Far from Achieving Racial, Gender Equity

Most Sports Organizations Are Far from Achieving Racial, Gender Equity BOSTONOnly the WNBA and the NBA are close to genuine equity when it comes to opportunities for women and people of color in professional and decision-making positions in pro, Olympic and college sports, according to a report released last month. The two organizations were the […]

There’s a Football Revival Goin’ On

There’s a Football Revival Goin’ OnWithin the last two years, five historically Black colleges have dusted the cobwebs off their football programs. By Craig T. GreenleeStrange as it might sound, football’s recent revival at the smaller Black colleges is all about the bottom line. True, it is an expensive sport to maintain. That’s why schools […]

Leadership & Policy

Fired USF Basketball Coach Should Be Reinstated, Judge Says

Fired USF Basketball Coach Should Be Reinstated, Judge SaysTAMPA, Fla. A judge recently recommended that the fired coach of the University of South Florida’s women’s basketball team be reinstated, saying the university did not prove she mistreated the team’s Black players. Jerry Ann Winters should receive back pay for the months she has been out […]

Leadership & Policy

Commission Proposes Limits on College Sports

Commission Proposes Limits on College Sports WASHINGTONColleges with low graduation rates among athletes should be banned from postseason play, a commission said last month in chiding universities for putting too much emphasis on winning. Under the plan proposed by the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, player uniforms would be stripped of corporate logos, and a […]

Senate Committee Approves Anti-Gambling Bill

Senate Committee Approves Anti-Gambling BillA U.S. Senate committee has approved legislation to halt all legal betting on college sports. The bill from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., primarily targets legalized gambling on college sports in Nevada. However, McCain says such action also will reduce illegal gambling on amateur sports nationwide, since these illegal activities rely heavily […]

Heading Straight to the Pros

Heading Straight to the ProsI recently watched the NBA draft, and I couldn’t help it, but as an editor of a higher education magazine, it bothered me that four players just out of high school were chosen in the first 10 picks at levels higher than the players who had attended some college. Of course, […]

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Coach’s Racial-Profiling Complaint

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Coach’s Racial-Profiling ComplaintWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court refused to revive claims by a women’s college basketball coach that Texas police arrested her and two others solely because they are Black. The court’s action, taken without comment earlier this month, rejected arguments from Hampton University coach Patricia Bibbs that Lubbock police engaged in […]

Leadership & Policy

Edward Waters College to Reintroduce Football Program After 35-Year Absence

Edward Waters College to Reintroduce Football Program After 35-Year AbsenceJACKSONVILLE, Fla.Citing a need to increase enrollment, especially of Black men, Jacksonville’s Edward Waters College plans to reintroduce intercollegiate football this fall, if the college can raise $2 million dollars. The move comes after a 35-year absence of the game.In a recent communiqué, Edward Waters president […]

Lawmakers Seek to Combat Gambling On College Campuses

Lawmakers Seek to Combat Gambling On College CampusesSome members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate want to zero in on what they consider a major crisis in higher education — gambling among college students and student-athletes.New legislation in both chambers calls for action to combat both legal and illegal gambling, and some provisions […]

Jackson State’s Women’s Team Makes NCAA Golf History

Jackson State’s Women’s Team Makes NCAA Golf HistoryJACKSON, Miss.Jackson State University’s women’s golf team has become the first squad from a historically Black college to advance to the NCAA regional championships. It’s a feat that Jackson State’s men’s golfers accomplished in 1996, and one that coach Eddie Payton says is no less historic for the […]

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