It took less than a year for Jaylen Brown to fall in love with the city of Oakland. In 2015, the 18-year-old basketball ...

Michael McClendon made history as the first black men's basketball head coach at the Birthplace, and is helping other ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Black Americans have lost millions of acres of hard-earned agricultural land in the last century, according to the Players Coalition, a group of NFL players and other athletes ...

Reporters from The Associated Press who cover the NFL have spoken to more than 65 Black players from 25 teams this season to gather their thoughts on the state of Black head coaches in the league ...

3B/OF Charlie (Chuck) Randall. . . Born: Glassboro, N.J. . . . Product of Glassboro High School . . . Went to Spring Training in 1955, the first Black player to wear a Phillies uniform. He didn’t play ...

If you go back in time, from 1982-1984, realize that the collegiate version, and later pro ... great player. How much more does his legacy elevate with a ring? The greatest Auburn basketball ...

I don’t remember when I began loving basketball. I just know that when I was nine years old, I begged for a basketball goal for Christmas and received not only that, but also a basketball and an ...

But I think there are plenty of guys who are qualified." Several players the AP interviewed noted the gap between the proportion of Black athletes in the NFL — 53.5% in 2023, according to The ...

Players also raised the issues of representation — and, possibly, connection — when discussing a league in which more than 50% of the athletes are Black and about 20% of the coaches are.

From organized team activities through the end of the regular season, reporters from The Associated Press who cover the NFL spoke to more than 65 Black players from 25 teams to gather their ...

“Black coaches may have a shorter leash.” More than 90% of the 65-plus Black NFL players surveyed by The Associated Press over the past seven months were encouraged to have seen the number of ...