(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The New York Knicks might be working on the creation of the statue for current Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson right now. Brunson just made a relatively rare move in professional sports as he took a massive discount after agreeing to a four-year, $156.5 million extension recently and by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While much of the U.S. was focused on the U.S. Supreme Court as it relates to Donald Trump in recent weeks, there was much more significant news involving the Supreme Court recently. In late June, the Supreme Court issued its highly important ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s hot pretty much everywhere on Earth this summer but in sports slang someone who is “hot” is performing in their sport at a high level regardless of the competition. Biniam Girmay qualifies as “hot” in sports slang. Earlier this month, Girmay became the first African cyclist to win ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last month, 2023 WNBA champions, the Las Vegas Aces made their visit to the White House, which is a tradition for champions of North American sports. Last year, Las Vegas defeated the New York Liberty in the 2023 WNBA Finals to become back-to-back champs. During the visit, Joe Biden ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just as Name, Image, and Likeness, or NIL, signaled historic changes in college sports years ago, there is a bigger change coming. During May 2024, college sports news several decades in the making occurred as the National Collegiate Athletic Association, known best as the NCAA, and the “Power Five” ...