Sports

NNPA NEWSWIRE By Stacy M. Brown – Reportedly, training camps are equipped with proximity tracking devices that will alert players or staff when they are too close to one other. The device also collects data, […]

WXYZ) — Both Michigan President Mark Schlissel and Michigan State President Samuel Stanley voted to cancel the 2020 Big Ten college football season, according to a report from Dan Patrick. According to Patrick, both the […]

By Peggy Shinn  – At the Olympic Games Rio 2016, Simone Manuel won an Olympic gold medal in the 100-yard freestyle and became the first Black female swimmer on Team USA to win an Olympic gold […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The league said the charity would be public and the foundation would work to deepen “the NBA family’s commitment to racial equality and social justice.”  The NBA’s Board of Governors […]

By JOEL ANDERSON – Jerry Falwell Jr.’s dream of athletic domination is in peril. Inn mid-June, as the pandemic surged across the country, hundreds of students were living on Liberty University’s campus. Tayvion “Tank” Land was one […]

Consider the experience of former All-Star Preston Wilson, who recalls learning country song lyrics and practicing one-liners from ‘Caddyshack,’ enduring racist slurs and watching a teammate fiddle with a noose. Still wondering why the sport […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The NNPA is the global media partner for the African Renaissance and Diaspora Network (ARDN), an advocacy and marketing partner of the United Nations, and we had an opportunity to interview an […]

By Kyle Rowland – On Friday, six weeks after the event was publicly announced, Inverness Club will host the LPGA Drive On Championship — the tour’s first tournament since February after the coronavirus pandemic put […]

‘You notice when you’re the only guy of color that is not a former player who is holding a microphone’ Every year, Charlotte Hornets TV play-by-play announcer Eric Collins can’t help but feel a little […]

LOS ANGELES WAVE NEWSPAPERS — “For centuries, the Black community has lived in a different America,” pitcher Clayton Kershaw said. “Instead of addressing racism, inequality, and injustice, many of us simply look away. “Silence is […]