(ThyBlackMan.com) What is the point of playing sports? A common answer to this question would be fun, fitness, and friendships. However, many other benefits come from playing sports, such as developing motivation and life skills! People can utilize digital entertainment such as Fubo TV to train themselves just like professional ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sometimes I simply get tired of watching and reading the news. A lot of us do. And while I must stay informed and up to date, a temporary mental break is always welcomed. Sports becomes that outlet for me, particularly professional football. It is nice to be able to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In April of 1775, confronted by a forthcoming uprising by the U.S. colonist, British General Thomas Gage made the decision to confiscate gun powder and weapons that were being stored in Concord, Massachusetts. However, his plan was thwarted when citizens learned of his intentions and the legend of Paul ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2021-22 NBA season is here and all teams will be aiming for the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks, who won the franchise’s first NBA title since 1971. This season, 13 NBA head coaches of the 30 NBA head coaches are Black men, which is just one below the highest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are always surprise head coach departures during every NFL season but it will be hard for the 2021 season to top the resignation/ “firing” of Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden. Gruden is one of the most well-known head coaches in the NFL for many reasons from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2018, sports underwent a monumental, generation-altering change as the U.S. Supreme Court reversed lower court findings, favoring New Jersey in deciding that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, also known as PASPA, be overturned, allowing state-sponsored sports betting. In the years since, sports betting has taken off ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the best things about sports are the links between the past and the present. A major part of sports are the comparisons between players, teams, and coaches and those comparisons also are regards to the present and the past. 2021 Pro Football of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) During the NFL’s Week 1 game between the New York Jets and the Carolina Panthers, the biggest storyline was former Jets first round pick and quarterback Sam Darnold playing against his former team the Jets, months after they traded him and drafted his replacement, Zach Wilson, with the second ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are two events seared deep in my memory about. The greatest” AKA Muhammad Ali. Neither one of which remotely involves boxing. Some of the buzz about documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ multi-part PBS series on Ali premiered on September 19 brought these memories back. In his three wilderness years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Seattle Storm did something recently that no other WNBA team had done since 2016, they went to the White House to celebrate their WNBA championship. Last year’s WNBA champion finished their season in the “Wubble”, the WNBA version of the NBA’s bubble due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This week, the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2021 Induction Ceremony will honor the members of the Class of 2020: Derek Jeter, Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker. The coronavirus pandemic postponed their annual ceremony for those men a year ago and understandably overshadowed the potential Hall of Fame ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “If now the world of culture bends itself towards giving Negroes and other dark men the largest and broadest opportunity for education and self-development, then this contact and influence is bound to have a beneficial effect upon the world and hasten human progress. But if, by reason of carelessness, ...