(ThyBlackMan.com) Perhaps we should start becoming players and to stop finding creative ways to get played… My head cocked to the side just a bit when I heard the news about Olympic Champion Tommie Smith deciding to auction off his gold medal from the 1968 Olympics. Tommie, of “black fist” fame, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The biggest sports story of the week has been Sports Illustrated‘s piece on Josh Luchs, the agent who admitted to paying more than 30 NCAA football players money from 1990-1996. Every reporter, analyst, talking head and person with a forum has weighed in. Paying players is a major recruiting violation. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently read a very interesting story about how so many black athletes are being hammered by the financial devastation of child support. Their paychecks are getting zapped to nothing, only to buy Coach purses and hair weaves for the women who’ve had their children. Perhaps the sex was good ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) He didn’t think of himself as a boss, but he’s leading the Rangers into the playoffs for the first time in 12 years and could be the American League Manager of the Year… When the Texas Rangers take the field this afternoon against Tampa Bay, the manager in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A close examination of the Heat’s LeBron James and the role of race… Trying to avoid writing about the Miami Heat this season will be as difficult as trying to avoid writing about race and the NBA. Here we are, mere days after the teams assembled for the first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You couldn’t have come up with Sunday’s storyline if you tried. Sunday’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins will feature two of the most critiqued, analyzed and criticized players in the NFL. Those two players will lead their teams into the biggest game of the 2010 NFL season. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am participating with MSN in a project called “The Invested Life.” The program represents the launch of a series of web-based episodes that teach the fundamentals of investing to regular, everyday people. I’ve worked on the show for months, and I’ll be engaged in the project for the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are signs that equal opportunity has finally reached the most glamorous — and racially charged — position in professional football… Here’s a good measuring stick for progress in the National Football League: The league not only welcomes African-American quarterbacks who are good to great but even makes room ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even with Roger “No Nonsense” Goodell at the helm of the National Football league (after having succeeded Paul Tagliabue back in 2006), rehabilitated players now making the best of their second changes and initiatives like “NFL Cares” and other league affiliated service organizations making a difference in the lives young ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After serving time for dogfighting, the veteran quarterback brings his considerable talents under control in Philadelphia — and to good effect… Three weeks into the 2010 NFL season, one of the biggest stories is Michael Vick, and this time he’s making headlines for all the right reasons. Since emerging ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yes, there are undeniable racial components to the LeBron James hate of the past two months. But the sinister subset of America that finds it easier to loathe him because he’s a black man is old, boring news. More interesting to me is the mood of the “black community.” Much ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been to Africa dozens of times. However the trip to Sierra Leone was unique. Why? We went to cover “good news,” make that “wonderful” news stories. We did a story about a professional athlete from the States born and raised there, who returns every year trying to help ...