(Editor’s note: this is an old-ass post I’ve long forgotten about. Oh well…) This is a day I thought would NEVER happen. EVER. When I saw that the Supreme Court ruled that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of… Read More ›
college basketball
Relax Folks, Virginia Will Be Ok…
It has to suck to be a fan of the Virginia Cavaliers men’s basketball team. It sucks even harder to be one of the player – even harder for its head coach Tony Bennett. After all, the Cavaliers became the… Read More ›
2018 NCAA Tournament Preview
It’s that time of the year. Time to prepare your brackets. Time to pick those 12-5, 13-4, 11-6 seeded upsets. Time to predict the Final Four. Time to burn those brackets after the first weekend. (By the way, for those… Read More ›
Notre Dame Out, but Syracuse Is In?
Every year, Selection Sunday breeds lots of discussion — most of the time it’s for what in the was the NCAA Selection Committee was thinking in its selections. And while I could go on a rant as to why I… Read More ›
Moral of the FBI Probe: It’s Time to Pay the Players
For those of you who are a longtime followers of this blog (thank you, by the way), y’all would know that I have LONG been an opponent for student-athletes getting paid. In fact, I’ve argued against that idea for a… Read More ›
Time to Get Serious About Sexual Assaults on College Campuses
This is a scary world we’re living in. A world where sexual assaults and abuse take place, often long before the offenders are punished. A world where a great number of those assaults and abuse occur on college campuses. A… Read More ›
LaVar Ball: the Black Marv Marinovich
We black people have been feeling ourselves all day today. After all, we helped get Doug Jones elected as US Senator from Alabama – ALABAMA!!! Folks like my fraternity brother Roland Martin, Joy Reid, Van Jones and others have been… Read More ›