(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember when I was a young black boy growing up on Jackson St. back in the 90s, I had very rarely watched any mainstream sports matches on cable TV. And when I did, I hated allowing 3-4 hours of my time being consumed on stuff that really didn’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I heard online that former heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali had passed away last night, I was very devastated. Muhammad Ali was not only a great athlete in the ring, but he was a great and proud unapologetic black man outside the ring. Muhammad Ali will always be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was thoroughly tired of the current election cycle- specifically, of the “fact check” contradictor himself Donald Trump, who won the Republican Nomination and is now the apparent GOP standard bearer. To put that taste out of my mouth, I came across an article about the accomplishments of Surya ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just a week ago two black Alabama Football players were arrested and charged with illegal possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana. And then two weeks ago, four Auburn football players were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana. When I read the story online, the first thought ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What would you think if famed Hall of Fame NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who stands 7’2, claimed to be five foot tall? What would you think if South African president, Jacob Zuma claimed to be president of the U.S.? What would you think if I told you the Washington ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What do these four people all have in common: Wardell Stephen “Steph” Curry, II, better known as Steph Curry, Ayesha Alexander Curry, Carvin Haggins and BriaMarie? Yes, they are all involved in entertainment at the highest levels. Yes, they all have achieved some measure of success within the industry. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I was a kid back in the day, I didn’t watch very much sports on cable TV (and still don’t to this day) because I actually played PE sports like kickball (my favorite sport), flag football, tug of war, played sports video games, and I even played baseball ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Throughout this communique, I invite all of you to co-explore some of the issues profiled within and come to your own conclusions. In January, 2016, The Buffalo Bills hired Ed Reed the former Baltimore Ravens safety who during his playing career was an All-Universe, All-Pro, oh, what the heck; ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) very March, people in The US create brackets, place bets on winning teams, picking teams, and winning money while watching March Madness. But The NCAA on the other hand is making millions and billions from ad revenue for a 30 second ads and in fact, they extract over a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret when a young black boy these days is asked what he wants to do or who he wants to be when he grows up, many of them would say things like I wanna be “The Next Lebron James or Calvin Johnson” or “I always dreamed of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For NFL fans, the Super Bowl is a bittersweet moment. Yes, it’s the biggest game in the sport you love, but it also signals something. It signals the end of the current season, and months until things start up again. Many men spend this time in tears curled up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the past two decades, the role of black undergraduate competitors in university sports has changed dramatically. Ordinarily, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) promotes school athletic ventures as open doors for underprivileged minorities and inner city youth to complete a college degree when they might not have previously ...