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America’s Top Black Sportscasters Through the Years
From Greg Gumbel to Robin Roberts, these Black sportscasters have done an excellent job of sharing and narrating the sports stories fans care about.
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Sportscaster Fired for Using N-Word While Referring to the Negro League Baseball Museum
Oakland A’s play-by-play announcer Glen Kuiper, who was originally suspended, has since been fired for his on-air “mistake.”
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Maybe It’s Time to Rethink Thursday Night Football
Yet another player took a frightening blow to the head in a game that wasn’t even worth watching.
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All Hail to the Queen: The Equalizer Among 2021’s Top Viewed Telecasts
The Equalizer, Oprah With Meghan and Harry lead 2021 non-sports viewing.
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Mookie Betts Details MLB's Failures to Address Social Injustice, Become More Inclusive: They 'Did Not Do a Good Job'
I sure as hell ain’t the only Black person who works at The Root, but I’ve definitely had more of my fair share of being the only one in the room throughout the course of my life. So I can only imagine what MLB superstar Mookie Betts goes through every single day while playing baseball—one…
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Irv Cross, 1st Black Full-Time Sports Analyst on National Television, Dead at 81
Irv Cross accomplished quite a bit in life. He was a two-time Pro Bowler who spent nine years in the NFL as a defensive back, and while pursuing a broadcasting career after his retirement, he became the first Black man to work full-time as a sports analyst on national television with CBS. Sadly, he’s no…
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Mid-American Conference Postpones Fall Sports; NFL Could Take Over Saturdays If College Football Is Gone
Mere days after UConn became the first major college football program to graciously bow out of playing this season due to the coronavirus, the Mid-American Conference—yes, an entire conference—will follow suit. In a statement posted on Twitter, the conference announced that it will postpone its football season until the 2021 spring semester in order to…