Sports

(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been quite a month of August for major news for some accomplished Black professional athletes. On August 4th, WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in Russian prison after being detained for months in Russia after the Russian Federal Customs Service found vape cartridges containing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) He’s the boisterous voice in sports news with a large following. Jason Lee Whitlock is considered as a well-known sports journalist, columnist, and podcaster, at least according to Wikipedia. After a stint at ESPN and a series of Fox sports jobs, the Indianapolis, Indiana native found a home at ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As a freelance journalist; this writer has come to realize that it doesn’t matter what sport you play; in order to compete at the highest level as a professional athlete, you need to be at the top of your game. The ultimate consequence was that more women were given ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) College sports in 2022 is nothing like college sports in 1992 or even 2012. As the college football season begins, the transfer portal has given collegiate athletes more power over their careers than ever before but even more than the transfer portal has been the impact of NIL. It ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Racism cannot just be shaken out of the fabric of society because, like dust from a rug, it dissipates into the air for a bit and then settles right back where it was, growing thicker with time. Police reform is a start, but it is not enough. We need ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Evaluating the benchmark hires of Sandra Douglass Morgan in NFL and Mike Grier in NHL by Mark Hines There is no shortage of people of color playing professional sports. Most of the biggest names in professional sports are non-white athletes like LeBron James, Serena Williams, Lamar Jackson, and Fernando ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Unquestionably, Venus and Serena Williams revolutionized women’s tennis. With serves that approached the speed of light, fantastic agility, exceptional athleticism, and the grace of gazelles, they changed how women played tennis. Furthermore, they were outspoken about issues like pay equity, advocating that women tennis players should earn as much ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When a golfer hits an errant shot that might bonk an unsuspecting spectator on the head, the proper cry of warning is: “Fore!” But what do they shout when they hit a bad shot that boomerangs right back and bonks the golfer on the noggin? In the polite world ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The phrase “living legend” isn’t reserved for everyone. It means that a person’s accomplishments have been so outstanding and historic that even among their status among the living that their name and legacy belong along the greats who preceded them. Basketball legend Bill Russell was truly a living legend ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Yes, I am talking about the Religion of the Slaves aka Christianity, Catholicism, Islam and every other religion that has plague the African American community in America and other black countries and nations around the world with the European and Imperialism lies, fairy tale, bias, pedophilia, oppression and slavery ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Please continue to pray for my family and all the other families of the wrongfully detained, as our pain remains active until our loved ones are brought home. Let’s continue to use our voices to speak the names of all the wrongfully detained Americans and support the Administration as ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Bill Russell redefined how basketball is played, and then he changed the way sports are viewed in a racially divided country. The most prolific winner in NBA history, Russell marched with Martin Luther King Jr., stood with Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack ...