Today's New York Times has a full-page ad courtesy of Baylor University celebrating Robert Griffin III's winning the 2011 Heisman Trophy. (For those of you without access to a hard copy of the Times, here is a link to a not so great shot of the ad). Above a large picture of Griffin in uniform, smiling as he holds [...]
Here's an inspirational story from The Washington Post to savor along with your Thanksgiving leftovers: Coach Natalie Randolph, an African American believed to be the only woman currently coaching a high school football team in the country, led her Coolidge High School Colts earlier this week to the Turkey Bowl, Washington D.C.'s public school football championship. This was the [...]
Now here's some good and inspirational news for everyone: three African American teenaged boys are among the youngest players to ever be named chess masters, each obtaining this advanced rank before their thirteenth birthday. The article in today's New York Times, found here, notes that these three young men, Justus Williams, Joshua Colas and James Black, Jr., while rivals, [...]
I spent last Saturday with one of my sons at a college lacrosse clinic, where he along with scores of other high school juniors were demonstrating their skills to a group of college coaches, with the hopes of being recruited for a college team. After the lunch break, the head coach of the host school stepped in front of [...]
During the countdown to the Final Four, the NCAA ran a commercial touting the fact that African American NCAA athletes in Division I schools have higher graduation rates than African American male students who are not athletes. According to Dr. Richard Lapchick, director of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida, this [...]
I’m sure that most of our readers dutifully read to their sons from infancy through toddlerhood. I am equally sure, though, that as soon as their little princes turn five, many of those same readers thrust a basketball, football or bat into their hands. Many of our sons’ early school years are marked by the routine of twice weekly [...]