(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, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Russell Simmons says he wants hip-hop pioneers to get their flowers and much-deserved money while still alive. Over three days in New York – beginning with a massive celebratory dinner at The Chop House in the city’s financial district, Simmons and some of raps unsung pioneers officially unveiled the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The WNBA’s playoff chase is in full effect. One of the teams in the WNBA playoff hunt is the Chicago Sky, which features one of the most well-known players in the league in Candace Parker. Earlier this year, Parker was selected for another WNBA All-Star Game in her great ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As a freelance journalist in preparation for the article you now read; this writer took various courses online; that would prepare me for what will be presented here. These were some of the courses and schools involved: Understanding the Brain: University of Chicago Psychological First Aid: Johns Hopkins University ...