(ThyBlackMan.com) The WNBA has just completed arguably its most successful season ever. The New York Liberty won its first ever WNBA championship after being one of the first original WNBA franchises. There are well-established marketable skilled athletes including A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, and Sabrina Ionescu while also having young, talented ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a year that has been full of tragedy, 2024 has hit the college basketball community hard after the surprising loss of South Florida men’s basketball head coach Amir Abdur-Rahim. He passed away on October 24, 2024 after undergoing a medical procedure at a Tampa-area hospital when he died ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During TV ads today, there is a noticeable type of endorser that is new among athletes that did not have access a decade ago. It is becoming common to see college basketball or college football stars in TV ads endorsing products and the well-known phrase, “Name, Image, and Likeness” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no greater moment than the arrival of a life into the world. It is deservedly a major deal when a healthy childbirth occurs and in sports it is highlighted that male professional athletes do not have to deal with the physical, emotional, and even financial challenges that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is always an unpredictable exercise to try to predict all the NFL teams that will make the playoffs before the regular season starts. The up-and-down nature of NFL teams from year-to-year and the high rate of injuries to random NFL players during the course of an NFL season ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Believe it or not, sports fans should be pumped about the start of the 2024 college football season. It’s already an historic season with a new 12 team College Football Playoff, the dynamic shifts of major college conference realignment adding teams to build mega conferences, and the absence of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Despite people’s best efforts, sports have always been political and will always be political. There is perhaps no better example of that than the Olympics, where countries send their best athletes to compete on an international stage and attempt to show their athletic superiority over their international counterparts. There ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This has been a year when the U.S. public has learned a lot about political prisoners. Using the definition of “political prisoner” via Encyclopedia Britannica Online, a political prisoner is “a person who is imprisoned because that person’s actions or beliefs are contrary to those of his or her ...