Well Is Jason Collins Coming Out As Gay In Sports Illustrated Merely A Tool For A Much Bigger Agenda?

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) When I heard that President Obama gave N.B.A. Player Jason Collins a phone call Monday congratulating him and expressing his support after publicly announcing that he is gay, I knew that it would set off some very intense controversy on many levels especially after our President stated that he was “impressed by his courage!” Mr.... [Read more...]

Anybody Else Waiting For Hip Hop To Have An Identity Crisis?

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) A few years ago, I ran into an intern on the job. He was twenty one-years-old and in the process of finishing up a degree from a historically black institution. He told me that he wanted to be a rapper and that he performed under the name Tre Live. I dismissed him as one more Black male that was chasing pipe dreams of becoming... [Read more...]

Bob Stoops Oklahoma Coach is OK with Players Being Broke and Hungry, How Convenient.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Bob Stoops, the well-paid coach of the University of Oklahoma football team, thinks that it’s OK for his players to be broke and hungry.   Stoops, who just signed a nice contract extension of nearly $40 million over eight years, expects that his players and their families should be happy to get whatever they receive. When... [Read more...]

Yes, Thousands of NFL Players Suing Over Brain Damage Caused by Years of Play.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) A set of hearings will take place soon to deal with the impact of concussions on NFL players.  The hearings have very high stakes, with billions of dollars on the line, depending on how they turn out.   As it stands, a total of 4,200 players have sued the NFL for various brain injuries.  Some have suffered from dementia, depression,... [Read more...]

Jackie Robinson, #42 Never Had it Made – Part 1.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) For five hours on August 8, 1944, the young second lieutenant stood nervously before an all-white nine judge military jury panel at Camp (now Fort) Hood, Texas. He faced multiple charges in his court martial proceedings. His only real offense was that he had defied a segregation mandate. While he rode on a bus back to his base... [Read more...]

Race, Money, Power and Rutgers Basketball.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) A White coach, curses, bullies, hits and hurls homophobic slurs at his mainly Black basketball team for years. No one says anything until a Black assistant coach brings the matter to light. The offending White coach is given a slap on the wrist. The Black assistant coach is fired. The fired Black assistant coach brings suit,... [Read more...]

Kevin Ware, Mike Rice & NCAA: Men’s Basketball Violence, etc.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) I only watched it once, because it was too excruciating to view. That moment when Louisville guard Kevin Ware leaped, very high, to block a shot by Duke basketball player Tyler Thornton, and landed in a way that broke his right leg in two places. I turned my head in both agony and fear. Agony because as someone who has always... [Read more...]

Mike Rice; NCAA is Complicit in Allowing Coach to Abuse His Players.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Mike Rice, the man who was once the basketball coach at Rutgers University, probably thought that his long list of abuses would remain behind closed doors.  But that wasn’t the case after an episode of ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” revealed videotaped evidence of his mistreatment of players, from throwing basketballs at... [Read more...]

NCAA Championship Game; 30 Second Ad Spot, 1.5 million.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Athletes Just Get a Scholarship… Those who oppose the idea of the NCAA sharing it’s billions with the families of student athletes tend to cite the scholarship as a fair and primary form of compensation.  The problem for the NCAA is that it’s difficult to rake in more money than the NBA and NFL, yet give the families... [Read more...]

Yes, Plantation Education.

Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) Written in 2000… With all the “talk” about college athletes not getting paid while coaches, directors, and universities earn billions in revenue, I thought I’d go back into the Blackonomics archives to find the following article. Although it has taken 13 years, I am glad to see this topic back in the public discourse;... [Read more...]

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