Sunday, August 28, 2011

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Kobe Bryant Says He Wants Another Gold Medal

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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.

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NCAA Athletes Start a New Season with No Labor Rights, No Compensation and No Help for Their Families

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse UniversityScholarship 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.

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Friday, August 5, 2011

Former NBA Player Arrested at the Airport at Gunpoint

By JasmineHughes

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.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Why Albert Haynesworth Isn’t Worth $100 Million to Anyone

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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.

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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.

 

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