— BY, LOIS ELFMAN A new series on Disney+, “Big Shot,” tells the story of Division I men’s basketball coach Marvyn Korn (played by John Stamos) who loses his job after throwing a chair at a referee. Trying to redeem his reputation, he takes the only job available to him, coach of a girls’ […]
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College Football Doesn’t Give Black Coaches Many Chances | Five Thirty Eight
Where Willie Taggart goes, so goes history. The 43-year-old — whose parents worked in migrant fields — landed head-coaching gigs at Oregon and Florida State, two of the most coveted jobs in college football, at a relatively young age. At each of his four stops as a head coach,1 Taggart was the first African American […]
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Before Kaepernick, The ‘Syracuse 8’ Were Blackballed By Pro Football | WBUR
They met in secret, away from their white coaches and teammates. “We used to meet at midnight,” former Syracuse football player Dana Harrell says. “And we could have met earlier. But we used to meet at midnight, to lay out our thoughts and plans, just like the slaves.” Harrell was one of nine college football […]
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The Complicated Activism of Arthur Ashe | Politico
Fifty years after his U.S. Open win, the tennis player-turned-advocate offers a model for other athletes—and the rest of us, too.
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‘My heart, it’s never been fuller’: All black team wins D.C. Little League title | The Washington Post
They started with 120 kids in 2015. This year, 310 registered.
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Charlie Scott Included as Part of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2018 | Chapelboro.com
Scott made history in the fall of 1966 when he became the first black scholarship athlete to attend UNC.
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Meet All The Black People Competing In The 2018 Winter Olympics | NewsOne
Black women, who have been busy trying to save America from itself, make up the bulk of Team USA.
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