(ThyBlackMan.com) A set of hearings will take place soon to deal with the impact of concussions on NFL players. The hearings have very high stakes, with billions of dollars on the line, depending on how they turn out. As it stands, a total of 4,200 players have sued the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For five hours on August 8, 1944, the young second lieutenant stood nervously before an all-white nine judge military jury panel at Camp (now Fort) Hood, Texas. He faced multiple charges in his court martial proceedings. His only real offense was that he had defied a segregation mandate. While ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A White coach, curses, bullies, hits and hurls homophobic slurs at his mainly Black basketball team for years. No one says anything until a Black assistant coach brings the matter to light. The offending White coach is given a slap on the wrist. The Black assistant coach is fired. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I only watched it once, because it was too excruciating to view. That moment when Louisville guard Kevin Ware leaped, very high, to block a shot by Duke basketball player Tyler Thornton, and landed in a way that broke his right leg in two places. I turned my head ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Mike Rice, the man who was once the basketball coach at Rutgers University, probably thought that his long list of abuses would remain behind closed doors. But that wasn’t the case after an episode of ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” revealed videotaped evidence of his mistreatment of players, from throwing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Athletes Just Get a Scholarship… Those who oppose the idea of the NCAA sharing it’s billions with the families of student athletes tend to cite the scholarship as a fair and primary form of compensation. The problem for the NCAA is that it’s difficult to rake in more money ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Written in 2000… With all the “talk” about college athletes not getting paid while coaches, directors, and universities earn billions in revenue, I thought I’d go back into the Blackonomics archives to find the following article. Although it has taken 13 years, I am glad to see this topic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The NFL is in a world of trouble. Amid players being charged with crimes such as assault, driving under the influence, dog fighting, murder, narcotics trafficking, self leg shooting (lol I had to), & rape, players are being tested positive for steroids & other drugs. The Patriots & Saints, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Michael Vick has done everything humanly possible to atone for his dog torturing past. He was tried, convicted and jailed. He accepted full responsibility for his actions. He’s virtually prostrated himself before every animal rights group around to apologize for his actions. He didn’t stop there. He’s spoken out ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Jackie Robinson is remembered for breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball, but he played a less heralded role in Republican politics and black community activism. Robinson was a vital voice of reason in the early ‘60’s as the black liberation movement in the urban north grew more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Deion Sanders, one of the greatest men to ever touch a football, has come out pretty hard against the push for safety in the NFL. Sanders seems to be taking issue with the players who are starting to speak out about the long-term brain damage that often caused by ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to the Dallas Morning News, Jimmy Bernard Billingsley has been sent to prison for aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury after he admitted to sleeping with the mother of one of his players without using protection. What is unfortunate for the young man’s mom is that Billingsley ...