(ThyBlackMan.com) I like to think that I have grown up over the years, but as a child, I fantasized about being an athlete. One of my most vivid childhood memories is a vision of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sinking a long skyhook from the baseline to give the Milwaukee Bucks a victory ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’ve officially seen the end of an era. The great Tiger Woods, the golfer who was once considered unstoppable, has dropped out of the top 10 in the World Golf Rankings for the first time in 14 years. The last win for Woods was 18 months ago in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was trying to ignore this because, quite frankly, it’s stupid. But my colleague Deron Snyder at the online publication The Root convinced me otherwise. By “this,” I am talking about the comments by Philadelphia boxer Bernard Hopkins about pro football quarterback Donovan McNabb, who played in Philadelphia for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Too many Blacks leaving school with no degree, substandard education, study shows… In the race to have the best team, win the most games and make the most money, college sports programs have exploited student-athletes for university gains, according to some of the nation’s leading experts on race and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “One for the brothers who aren’t here.” Saying these words is always bittersweet, especially when applied to young men who have not reached their 35th birthday, but sometimes life is that way. We cannot control when a life will be taken from us, but we can control how we ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) JUST DAYS before a title bout that could eclipse the miracles of George Foreman, ageless phenomenon Bernard Hopkins addressed what really matters: Questioning former Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb’s blackness and mettle. According to Hopkins, McNabb had a privileged childhood in suburban Chicago and, as a result, is not black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is no question that Blacks have made tremendous progress on the field and on the sidelines. But Blacks and other people of color are still not major participants in the money side of college sports. Players, of course, do not get paid, but those in the higher echelons of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently went to St. Louis to visit a center for citizens with developmental disabilities. I was surprised that the word “retarded” was in the name of the center, because I learned a few years ago that the use of this word can be offensive to quite a few ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I didn’t touch her. I don’t even like black girls. I know what this is about, she is just upset I have a white girlfriend. I couldn’t tell you the last time I dated a black girl. She was trying to get with me. ” I had to do ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rashard Mendenhall from the Pittsburgh Steelers has been dropped by one of his sponsors, Champion over tweets that were controversial in the midst of the Osama bin Laden killing this week. “Champion is ending our business relationship with Mendenhall since the athletic brand doesn’t think he can appropriately represent ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It looks like Washington Redskins star Albert Haynesworth is having even more problems beyond the ones that led to the Redskins taking him off the field. Haynesworth has been accused of fondling a young waitress at the W Hotel. The government offered him a plea bargain, but he’s not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Former linebacker makes his biggest hit by teaching kids life lessons through chess… Unlike Cam Newton, Von Miller, Marcell Dareus and the other former collegiate standouts recently selected by professional football teams, Kevin Fite never experienced the thrill of having his name called on draft day. However, once upon ...