For too long, Black girls and women have been made to conform to the largely white and male-centred ideas about how sports should be played and how Black athletes ought to present themselves.
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While Sanders deftly played the game of Black respectability politics during his short tenure, Jackson State had motives of its own when it hired the former NFL star.
The US National Women’s Soccer League was recently rocked by revelations of sexual abuse. But research shows that physical and verbal abuse is also disturbingly common in organized sports.
A recent study found that an unexpected run in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament can boost enrollment.
A study shows that a select group of NBA players really do go on hot streaks by making more shots in a row than statistics suggest they should.
Over 300 companies so far have closed stores, reassigned staff or halted sales in Russia in the two weeks since the invasion began.
Women college athletes face far more limited career prospects than men. The NCAA’s new endorsement rules may help level the playing field when it comes to making money from their athletic ability.
A sports management scholar weighs in on whether college athletes can appear in their school’s swag while promoting various products.
It might be time to reschedule football season. With rising temperatures, poorer air quality and a worsening hurricane season, climate change threatens the future of the American sport.
NBA star LaMelo Ball told GQ magazine that star athletes who want to play in the NBA ‘don’t need school.’ Was he right or wrong? And why?
New research shines the light on how colleges can inflate living expense estimates to offer bigger stipends to student-athletes.
Student-athletes can now seek to make money from their name, image and likeness. But there are risks, a college sports expert warns.
College basketball has long favored men over women athletes, history shows. The disparities that surfaced during March Madness are the latest example.
A basketball coach at a small community college in the Midwest reveals the challenges he faces on a regular basis to save his players from the pitfalls of the streets.
Shutting down sports teams can save schools millions of dollars but create longer-term challenges for enrollment, fundraising and campus life.
Someone’s race, however, seems to be a factor in whether they support college athletes’ economic rights.
Football forms the financial backbone of many athletic programs, with some schools deriving over 80% of their department revenue from the sport.
When college athletes practice or play, they’re really performing work. But are they able to speak up when the work conditions threaten their health? And what happens when they do?
When Mikey Williams, one of the nation’s top high school basketball players, announced that he was thinking about going to a historically black college, the college basketball world paid attention.
Unlike when Kobe Bryant went straight from high school to the NBA, future superstars must now spend at least one year in college or overseas. A sports scholar explains how that could soon change.
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