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Sports

The Diversity Lessons the NCAA Can Learn From the NFL

Professional football fans, particularly African-Americans, were instantly ecstatic that for the first time two National Football League teams led by Black coaches will be facing each other in the nation’s most popular annual sporting event. The event shows how far the NFL has come with respect to diversity among head coaches, and how far collegiate sports still lags behind.

January 31, 2007

Sports

Resilience and Revitalization

Everyone knows that college sports is a lucrative business. The fact that the University of Alabama earlier this month offered…

January 24, 2007

Sports

Got Game

Mary Allison Milford’s life sounds like that of a typical college athlete. At least, it does on the surface…

January 24, 2007

Sports

Black Male Student-Athletes Owe Themselves, Forefathers More

The tragedy of Maurice Clarett, the former Ohio State University football star and NFL hopeful…

January 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse Players

Increasingly under attack from newspaper editorials and online bloggers, the Duke faculty members known as “The Group of 88” posted a letter online yesterday defending themselves against accusations that they had rushed to judge the three men’s lacrosse players.

January 16, 2007

Sports

Throw, Catch, Score! Now Study

Thumbs up to Pennsylvania State University for graduating 77 percent of its Black athletes and 83 percent of its White athletes…

December 27, 2006

Sports

Atlantic Coast Conference Leads In Number of Black Head Basketball Coaches

Black college basketball players make up approximately 70 percent of the rosters of the top teams. While the percentage of Black head basketball coaches is nowhere near that level, the Atlantic Coast Conference is making strides in promoting African Americans to top coaching positions.

December 11, 2006

Sports

Study: Schools in Top Bowl Games Have Disparate Graduation Rates For Black, White Players

ORLANDO, Fla. The disparity between graduation rates for White and Black college football players in this season’s five major bowls was nearly twice as large as those for less successful schools, according to a study released Monday.

December 4, 2006

Students

Questions of Conduct

When Jason Johnson, a student at the University of the Cumberlands in the eastern Kentucky hills…

November 29, 2006

Students

Racial Name -Calling at Diversity Retreat Leads to Firing

The diversity-training consultant called one Wilkes University student of Indian descent a “terrorist”…

October 18, 2006

Sports

CSTV Launches 100 Broadband Sports Channels

Beginning this fall, CSTV Networks Inc., a division of CBS Corp., is offering live college sports broadcasting…

October 4, 2006

Students

Racial Name-Calling at Diversity Retreat Leads To Firing

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. The diversity training consultant called one Wilkes University student of Indian descent a “terrorist.” He also had student athletes at a diversity retreat call another student “Chink” — as a means of making the derogatory words lose their power.

September 25, 2006