Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Friday, September 9, 2011

D-Wade and Gabrielle Hit the Beach with the “Chill-ums”

Don’t they look happy?

Sunday, September 4, 2011

NASCAR Drivers Turn Down President Obama

President Obama gets snubbed by NASCAR drivers

 

It looks like NASCAR drivers don’t like President Obama very much…or at least have very little respect for him.

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FAMU Basketball Player Dies After Being Stabbed in the Neck

Shannon Washington

 

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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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Monday, July 25, 2011

NFL Lockout May be Ready to End

By JasmineHughes

The NFL labor issue is almost over. The sides put the final touches on a new collective bargaining agreement to end the lockout early Monday and football will soon be back in business.

The NFL Association executive committee is gathering in Washington on Monday to vote to recommend the deal to the 32 players representatives, who will then recommend the deal to the 1,900 players. The voting process will begin Monday, July 25th, 2011.

NBA Player Lorenzen Wright’s Death is Still a Mystery

MEMPHIS, Tenn.— In the year since Lorenzen Wright’s decomposing body was found in a secluded field in southeast Memphis, his mother has kept pressing authorities to find whoever killed the former NBA player.

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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

Friday, June 24, 2011

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Boy Killed Outside of High School Birthday Party

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by: PatriceJohnson, Your Black World

Ryan Royall, 17…

As an amazing student and standout basketball player at Hillcrest High School, Ryan Royall hoped that his love for basketball would one day help him to be able to get a scholarship to go off to college… But all of his dreams of going to college and making a better life for himself and his family were shattered on June 5th at approximately 12:30 a.m.

Royall was leaving a birthday party at Ho-Chunk Sports and Expo Center in south suburban Lynwood with his friend, Olajuwan Harris on that Sunday night. As they headed to their car they heard a disturbance in another parking lot and right after that gun shots rang out. Both of the boys hit the ground.

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Dwayne Wade Writes to Rep for Single Fathers Everywhere

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

And the Old Man Becomes the Champion

 

Yes, Bernard Hopkins wins another belt at the age of 46.

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Race-Baiting by NBC? White Females Claim Black Athletes Raped Them

Two white female students claim that black athletes raped them.  But the way the story is presented is racially-disturbing.

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Student Says Wake Forest Basketball Player Forced Her to Have Oral Sex

Maggie Hurt made some stunning allegations on The Today Show.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

OJ Gets His Appeal Denied

It looks like OJ is going to be in prison for a while.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Chad Ochocinco Says He Wants to be a Professional Bull Rider

 

Sometimes you just have to shake your head.  If only these dudes would get an education.

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Reggie Bush Takes Heat Again for Twitter Remarks

Maybe athletes shouldn’t be using Twitter as much as they do.

 

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Yes, Our Kids Need Year-Round Education

Should our kids go to school year round?  This guy thinks it’s mandatory in order for the US to be able to compete.

 

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Monday, May 9, 2011

LeBron James Should Apologize for “Retarded” Comment

LeBron James is in hot water after remarks me made to a reporter.

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Lakers are Done and Went Out in Poor Style

Mavs send the Lakers home packing.

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