Sunday, August 28, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Kobe Bryant Says He Wants Another Gold Medal
By JasmineHughes
While decisions are still in the air about whether or not he’ll be playing overseas during the NBA lockout, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has made a decision regarding the 2012 Olympics.
NCAA Athletes Start a New Season with No Labor Rights, No Compensation and No Help for Their Families
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action
NCAA athletics has become the new prohibition – the illogical construct that creates a destructive underground economy because leadership is being guided by an illusion of what should be, rather than confronting the NCAA for what it really is: a professional sports league. Some of our most highly educated figures within academia are forced to convince themselves that a multi-billion dollar sports entertainment behemoth should be able to get away with not paying its primary employees.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Former NBA Player Arrested at the Airport at Gunpoint
Legal trouble continues for Former NBA player Darius Miles. The 29-year-old was arrested at Lambert St. Louis International Airport for trying to bring a loaded gun onto a flight. Transportation Security Administration workers discovered the gun in X-ray screening Wednesday afternoon.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Why Albert Haynesworth Isn’t Worth $100 Million to Anyone
by Renee Greene, Your Black World
Albert Haynesworth, a Washington Redskins trade, still wasn’t cutting it with his conditioning tests for the New England Patriots … until a few hours ago. Within the last few hours, according to USA Today‘s “The Huddle,” Haynesworth not only showed up at practice this past Sunday evening, but showed out.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Tiger Woods Come Back to the Green This Week
by Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World
Tiger Woods will be back on his game this week — in the literal sense. It has been three months since he has been on the course. On July 28th, however, Woods made a public statement saying that he will be back on the green this week at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio.