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Getting in the Game: Pursuing a Career in Sports
By Stefan Fatsis and Peter Keating, Career Journal
Corporate competition, minority recruitment, new technology all changing the career landscape in big-time sports

With Robinson, "No Aspect of Your Life . . . Went Unattended"
By Darrick Ignasiak, Black College Wire
Former player, colleague remembers the late Eddie Robinson as more than a coach

Keeping the ‘Old’ in School, Sports
By Lynda Lin, Pacific Citizen
In the past, cultural activities gave young Asian Americans the rare opportunity to interact with other Asians. But do language schools and Asian sports leagues foster an ethnocentric attitude?

Commentary: There Must Still Be Something Out of Kilter
By Kam Williams
Make no mistake, Don Imus knew exactly what he was doing and to whom...and he picked on them because he figured he could get away with it, as usual

Commentary: Why Imus Won't Go
By Earl Hutchinson, New America Media
Despite the protests and apologies, shock jocks like Don Imus thrive because there is too much money in race trash talk and the political leaders tacitly condone it

Eddie G. Robinson Lies in State April 9
Release
Statement from Ms. Doris Robinson, wife of legendary Grambling State University football coach Eddie G. Robinson, who passed away at the age of 88 on Tuesday, April 3

ESPN to Present Televised Film Event "Black Magic"
BlackNews.com release
Filmmaker Dan Klores to give in-depth look at the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of basketball players and coaches at HBCUs

Spike Lee Endows Morehouse Sports Journalism Program
By Chad Sanders and Ashley R. Harris Black College Wire
1979 Morehouse grad donates $721,000 in seed money. [clicking opens new window to our sister site, THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online]

"Making a Fuss" Over Jeter
By Alec Yoshio MacDonald, IMDiversity Special Contributor
Thinking about under-response to a hate letter sent to the Yankees' Derek Jeter causes author to reflect on his own "blind spots".

Keeping the ‘Old’ in School, Sports
By Lynda Lin, Pacific Citizen
In the past, cultural activities gave young Asian Americans the rare opportunity to interact with other Asians. But do language schools and Asian sports leagues foster an ethnocentric attitude?

'Red Face' Does Not Honor Us
By H. Mathew Barkhausen III, Pacific News Service
A writer applauds as an important first step the recent decision by the NCAA to prohibit Native motifs in postseason play

Player Spurned NBA Draft for School, but Still Dreams of Going Pro
By Roberta Dooms, Black College Wire
Many believe that there is an assumption that the talents of players from HBCUs are inferior to those in bigger conferences such as the ACC and Big Ten

Measures Needed to Protect African-American College Athletes
By Donal Brown, Pacific News Service
The nation's top college basketball and football athletes earn millions for their schools, but see very little of it. And yet these so-called "student" athletes have little time for their studies and often earn no academic degree.

Florida A&M Cuts Four Sports
By Teesa Johnson, Black College Wire
Men’s tennis, men’s golf and the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams eliminated in FAMU budget-balancing; other cuts may lie ahead

Le Batard, Rocker, and Race vs. Racism in Sports
By Alec Yoshio MacDonald, IMDiversity Special Contributor
The surprising results of an ESPN Mike & Mike show audience poll finds less tolerance for talk about race in sports than for racist talk itself.  So what gives?

NFL Pioneer’s Honor: “Better Late Than Never”
By Eddie R. Cole Jr., Black College Wire
Although Fritz Pollard was finally voted into the NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, the man who became the NFL's first black head coach in 1921 long deserved the honor

Storming the Castle: Why We Need to Know Our Radical Sports History
By Dave Zirin, Edge of Sports
The history of how social struggles have exploded onto the playing field is vibrant, thrilling and very real, says the author of the provocative new book, What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States.

The First and Only Black College Lacrosse Team
By Brian Purchia, VoA News
Lacrosse was long an elite sport played mostly by white athletes.  But, 30 years ago this spring, a black team from Baltimore shocked the lacrosse world by beating the number one ranked team in the country. Now, a movie's in the works to remember the "Ten Bears". 

Hockey Season or Not, 'Shark City' Youths Sport the Logo with Pride
By David Madrid, Pacific News Service
Cancellation of the 2005 NHL season won't affect the importance of San Jose Sharks paraphernalia to a young man and his friends from the city's east side.

Why Do Some Coaches of Women's Basketball Have Mustaches?
By Ted Landphair, VoA News
"We Got Game." That's what the WNBA promised when the league was formed in 1996. It would prove that women play exciting, team-oriented basketball -- albeit with fewer high-flying moves and egocentric chest thumps than muscular male players. But 8 of 13 head coaches remain male.

From the Archives

Steroid Scandal: A Diehard Fan Mourns Sports' Loss of Innocence
By Pueng Vongs, Pacific News Service
Some of the best times between the author and her immigrant father were watching the Chicago Bears and the amazing feats of Walter Payton. But if athletes today try to take the fast-track to greatness through performance-enhancing drugs, what happens to the wonder and dignity of sports?

Asian Men Can Jump
By Sam Cacas, Contributing Editor
He may not exactly be "a Yao Ming or "like Mike," but the Japanese-American hoopster who played his way through World War II to become the NBA’s first-ever Asian-Pacific American is still a star figure in APA sports history

We Runners Finally Get Press, for the Wrong Reasons
By Adrian Avila, Pacific News Service
A young runner says that the sport that brings him inspiration is threatened by the drug scandals plaguing several Olympic track stars