(ThyBlackMan.com) Just days after a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding athlete compensation, the NCAA cleared student-athletes to be compensated for the use of their name, image, and likeness without losing their college eligibility. The seemingly eternal debate of whether college athletes should be paid is only partially answered as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are less than a month away from the opening ceremonies of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Most people realize that last year’s Olympics were postponed due the global COVID-19 pandemic. Given the damage the pandemic did in 2020, it was the right move to postpone the Summer Olympics by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re unhappy with the third place American hammer thrower creating a 48 to 72-hour news cycle out of her petulant and selfish behavior on the medal podium this week, I have bad news for you. Get used to it, because the summer Olympics in Tokyo will be full ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Frances Scott Key, author of the Star-Spangled Banner, our “National Anthem” was a died in the wool racist. He opined that “Negroes” were a “distinct and inferior race.” He was a slaveholder from a family of slaveholders who influenced the odious seventh President Andrew Jackson to appoint Roger Taney, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are currently in the midst of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) end of season playoffs. The Los Angeles Clippers are battling the Phoenix Suns for the Western Conference title. The Milwaukee Bucks are battling the Atlanta Hawks for the Eastern Conference title. By early July, the respective conference ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A Message within A Message For Black America “If you are Physically Black and Psychologically Black then you will see the message “ALL BLACK EVERYTHING’ Lebron James Should Be Quiet and Stay out of Politics and Police shootings! If Lebron James hates white people and love his people, then ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The names Emmitt Smith and Walter Payton are vital parts of NFL history. Smith was the ground attack for one of the NFL’s greatest dynasties, the 1990s Dallas Cowboys, and Payton represented the power of the Chicago Bears offense as a member of one of the greatest teams in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a test of will, strength, talent, and ability to play in the National Football League as a player. Football is a brutal and violent sport and the best of the best play in the NFL. The men who play in the NFL challenge their bodies in physically ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The postponed and rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games are only a few weeks away. If the Japanese and International Olympic Committees can manage a COVID-safe environment, I welcome them. I consider this event to be one of the purest forms of athletic competition. Participants train and compete fairly in a test of physical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Football is America’s game. With a pre-pandemic annual revenue of over $15 billion, the National Football League far outpaces other major North American sports franchises (Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League) and is the most lucrative sports league in the world. After long ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This season will be the first 17-game regular season in National Football League history. Despite the physical toll and grind each NFL game can be for the participants, the NFL is adding an additional extra regular season game while subtracting one preseason game. Understandably, numerous NFL players complained on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can we ever get enough of Muhammad Ali? No! And so, another documentary about him is automatically good news on some level. Particularly during these troubled times when stirring up memories of “The Greatest” can connect us back to the best in humanity. First-time director Graham Shelby and producer Jonathan McHugh largely ...