(ThyBlackMan.com) The year 2016 was an incredible year for numerous reasons. The election of businessman and former reality star Donald Trump as the U.S. President was one big reason but there were several stories within sports that made 2016 very unique. There were political stances taken in sports, notable deaths by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I fell in love with him because he really talks about helping black people.” The “he” is President-elect Donald Trump. The man that spoke of his love fest with Trump was legendary football great Jim Brown. Brown had barely got the loving words of praise about Trump out his mouth ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rookie of the Year, 3-time NBA Championships (2012, 2013 and 2016), 3-time NBA Finals MVP, and a 4-time NBA MVP, it’s hard not to know anything about the 12-time All-Star, Lebron James. Lebron has been making headlines since his high school days at St. Vincent-St. Mary in Akron, Ohio. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2016 college football season is nearly concluded with only bowl games and the highly anticipated College Football Playoff coming later this month. There is still significant college football news prior to the college football bowl games as head coaches are still being hired in places with openings and some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Conferences like WordCamp, WordPress, Florida Blogging Conference and others offer opportunities never before heard of for HBCU students. The journey to start a career comes with preparation that needs to be done ahead of graduations and not rushed. Mistakes happen when what should have been done was not, procrastination can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just recently, The University Of Alabama In Tuscaloosa had announced that they will erect the statues of Mark Ingram and Derrick Henry, two examples of well behaved black athletes that predominate white institutions (aka PWIs) like The University Of Alabama In Tuscaloosa have a long history of celebrating well behaved ...
Why the hiring of Willie Taggart could be a game changer for black head coaches in college football.
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the more interesting college football head coaching hires for the 2017 season is the hiring of South Florida’s Willie Taggart to the University of Oregon. There was interest from Oregon in other accomplished coaches like Boise State’s Bryan Harsin and Western Michigan’s P.J. Fleck but they ultimately ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I admit the death of Joe McKnight Jr has me angry on multiple levels. I grew up understanding Jefferson Parish (right outside New Orleans) has not legally safe for blacks. The people have a right to be angry as it feels like another death of a black person in this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Narratives, narratives, narratives: they’re everywhere. Politics, advertising, universities – you name it, there’s a narrative. But one of the most dangerous narratives out there right now is the one that relates to health. We’re told over and over again that being healthy is hard work and something that is only ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am not a real big fan of Charles Barkley on a very personal level because he has said very negative things about us that the racist Caucasoid man would gladly approve of. And on top of that he has shown his ultimate disdain for black women calling them “ugly” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week, I was watching some NBA games on TNT and one of the game’s announcers was famed broadcaster Marv Albert. He is considered by many to be one of the top announcers in all of sports history. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last Saturday Night in a primetime college football game on ESPN (a network I personally don’t watch) The University Of Texas Football Team had just suffered one of the worst losses in the history of that program by losing in overtime to a historically basketball school in The University Of ...