The WNBA’s top draft pick said in an interview with ESPN Magazine that, as a standout for Baylor University, she was encouraged not to discuss her sexuality, because it could hurt recruiting.
Dallas Mavericks President and CEO Terdema Ussery says that why you want to be a leader is a more important question than how you get in position.
Continue reading …The disparity among the amount of money spent on the average student and the amount of money spent on the average athlete is staggering.
Continue reading …Jaunelle White, the director of compliance for athletics at Texas Southern University, says little has been done in the way of work toward adapting programs to accommodate students with disabilities.
Continue reading …A 2012 article in the Raleigh News & Observer noted White players made up a majority of the baseball players in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
Continue reading …Following Jesse Owens’ spectacular record-breaking four-gold-medal performance at the 1936 Olympics and Joe Louis’s capture of the heavyweight boxing title in 1937, a number of African-American coaches and journalists argued that African-American colleges should increase their financial support of athletics in hopes of producing more athletes who demonstrated the ability of the race.
Continue reading …Rutgers University announced Monday that it’s commissioning an independent review of the conduct of fired basketball coach Mike Rice and the way the university handled the situation when it learned that he was kicking and shoving players and berating them with gay slurs in practice.
Continue reading …A former basketball player who lost her athletic scholarship for poor performance on the court has also lost a court case accusing Central Michigan University of discrimination because she is White and heterosexual.
Continue reading …If Ed O’Bannon and others succeed, it would force the NCAA to essentially pay student-athletes for the first time in its 107-year history.
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