Sports

(ThyBlackMan.com) The NFL has announced that for the fourth year in a row, the so-called black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” will be performed at the Super Bowl. It appears we’ve come full circle since the 2004 Democratic National Convention when then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “Yet ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2023 college football season is over and the Michigan Wolverines are the National Champions. Days ago, the Wolverines earned a historic 15-0 record after defeating the offensively potent Washington Huskies in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. One of the stars of the game was Michigan junior ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the best things about being a sports fan is that sports are an opportunity of some semblance of escapism. Seeing talented athletes perform on the court, field, or area of play at a high level can be jaw-dropping and remind adult sports fans of their childhood playing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Jacksonville Jaguars remain the favorites to win the AFC South Division but they have been interesting for more than quarterback Trevor Lawrence throwing touchdown passes or edge rusher Josh Allen pressuring opposing quarterbacks. The Jaguars as a franchise have made sports headlines beyond their win-loss record in 2023. Here ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) On October 12, 2023, Ronnie Caldwell, an NSU football player, was murdered. He was shot multiple times. The murder is upsetting, the worst part is all of this could have been avoided if the head coach at the time Brad Laird had heeded the warning he received. Ronnie Caldwell ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Last month, one of professional sports most polarizing people, Kyrie Irving of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, made a big political statement without even saying a word. Irving, appeared at his team’s November 18th post-game press conference wearing a black and white keffiyeh. The keffiyeh, worn by Palestinian men and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Because of the magnitude of what is happening in occupied Palestine, thousands and thousands of people rallied and marched in Washington, D.C. earlier this month in the largest pro-Palestine rally ever in the U.S. to call for an end to Zionist Israeli violence against the Palestinian people. It seems ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s safe to say that in my days as an athlete, I’ve seen my fair share of scuffles, dustups, and physical altercations. With so much adrenaline, testosterone, and just macho chest-thumping behavior in team sports, it’s a given that tempers will flare, manhood will be tested, and competition will ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) He prefers to be called “coach” despite being the senior U.S. Senator for Alabama. Even on his official Senate website, he is called “Coach Tommy Tuberville.” Tommy Tuberville spent most of his professional career as a college football coach with stints at the University of Mississippi, Auburn University, and then ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Because soccer, as it is known in the United States, but fútbol nearly everywhere else on the globe, is the world’s most popular sport, teenagers signing contracts to play the sport professionally get some headlines. In 2021, 15-year-old, Olivia Moultrie, was granted a preliminary injunction by a judge that ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In football, it seems like the biggest media story in the NFL is Taylor Swift dating Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce and college football’s biggest media story has been Colorado Buffaloes head football coach Deion Sanders. Both stories have engendered a lot of headlines and attention due to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”-Malcolm X The biggest news story in the world right now is taking place in Gaza. Although the mainstream corporate media coverage began with rockets ...