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San Jose Students Want Statue Honoring Olympic Salute

San Jose Students Want Statue Honoring Olympic SaluteSAN JOSE, Calif. Thirty-five years after sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos bowed their heads and raised their fists on the Olympic podium in a Black power salute, students at their alma mater want to honor their controversial gesture with a statue. The image of two athletes raising […]

June 4, 2003

Sports

College Sports Television to Produce Broadband Shows

College Sports Television to Produce Broadband ShowsNEW YORKCSTV, or College Sports Television (www.cstv.com), the first 24-hour college sports network, will produce College Sports Buzz@AOL, two original, specially produced weekly shows airing on AOL for Broadband. The shows focus on the stories, games and events in the world of college sports. The first show premiered May […]

May 21, 2003

Sports

Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Headed to the WNBA

Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Headed to the WNBASACRAMENTO, Calif. University of Tennessee Lady Vol basketball player Kara Lawson continues to make headlines well after the season has come to a close. Last month, the Alexandria, Va., native was chosen fifth in the first round of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft. Lawson originally […]

May 21, 2003

Sports

Keeping Arthur’s Spirit and Work Alive

Keeping Arthur’s Spirit and Work Alive By Dr. Alpha Alexander As we celebrate, with this issue, the memory of Arthur Ashe and what was important to him, I have to ask the question: What would Arthur be thinking now if he were alive? Shortly before his death, Arthur and I visited a public housing development […]

April 9, 2003

Sports

A Winning Combination: Academics & Athletics

A Winning Combination: Academics & Athletics Black Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholars Awards to honor undergraduate students of color who have made achieving academically and athletically a winning combination. Inspired by tennis legend Arthur Ashe Jr.’s commitment to education as well as his love for the game of tennis, each year we […]

April 9, 2003

Sports

Keeping the Ashe Legacy Relevant

Keeping the Ashe Legacy Relevant By Ronald Roach Although tennis is regarded as an elite sport, the success that came to Arthur Ashe Jr. during and after his tennis career helped make him a figure whose impact reached far beyond the narrow confines of the tennis world. Among his exploits, Ashe is the first and […]

April 9, 2003

Sports

A Winning Combination: Academics & Athletics

Winning Combination: Academics & Athletics Black Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholars Awards to honor undergraduate students of color who have made achieving academically and athletically a winning combination. Inspired by tennis legend Arthur Ashe Jr.’s commitment to education as well as his love for the game of tennis, each year we invite […]

April 9, 2003

Students

Flickers of Light Amid Collegiate Sport’s Academically Dim World

Flickers of Light Amid Collegiate Sport’s Academically Dim World Our Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars edition gives us an opportunity this time every year to reflect on the status of the student-athlete. A look at abysmal graduation rates of college athletes coupled with those standout scholars who are able to manage their studies and sports […]

April 9, 2003

Sports

Study: Many Bowl Teams Fail to Make the Grade

Study: Many Bowl Teams Fail to Make the Grade ORLANDO, Fla.College football teams playing in this season’s bowl games may be high scorers on the field, but a new study reveals the opposite may be true off the field, particularly when it comes to graduation rates. The study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates […]

January 15, 2003

Sports

Giving Back to the Future

Giving Back to the FutureSouth Carolina’s Call Me Mister program has a huge task at hand. Not only has it taken on the shortage of teachers in general, but that of Black teachers and Black males in particular. It is an issue that stretches across all disciplines and harbors far-reaching societal implications as the gender […]

October 9, 2002

Sports

Saint Augustine’s Athletic Director Named U.S. Olympic Men’s Track Coach

Saint Augustine’s Athletic Director Named U.S. Olympic Men’s Track CoachRALEIGH, N.C.George “Pup” Williams said he is humbled and elated at reaching the pinnacle of his profession: U.S. Olympic men’s track and field coach. This summer, a 22-member committee of elite athletes and coaches from across the nation selected the Saint Augustine’s College athletic director to […]

October 9, 2002

Students

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 […]

April 24, 2002