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NCAA Women’s Tournament has 12 Black Female Coaches, Doubling the Total From a Year Ago

Note that five out of the 12 coaches are in the Greensboro part of the bracket

By

Noah A. McGee

Published

March 18, 2022
Culture, Sports

Cut the Check: Dawn Staley Joins UConn’s Geno Auriemma as the NCAA’s Highest-Paid Woman’s Coach

The WNBA legend has had tremendous success as an NCAA basketball coach and now has the salary to prove it.

By

Jay Connor

Published

October 19, 2021
Culture, Sports

U.S. Women’s Basketball, 400-Meter Relay Teams Take Home Gold in Tokyo Olympics Finale

Allyson Felix became the most-decorated U.S. track star of all time, while Team USA earned its seventh-consecutive gold medal in basketball.

By

J.L. Cook

Published

August 8, 2021
Culture, Sports

Michael Jordan Is the Perfect Choice to Present Kobe Bryant at His Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony

Throughout the course of his NBA career, Michael Jordan was the ultimate competitor. As such, his only rapport with most players began and ended with abusing his opponents on the basketball court. But Kobe Bryant was different. “If you just watched them interact in a game, Kobe always was like a magnet going toward Michael,”…

By

Jay Connor

Published

April 16, 2021
Beauty + Style

Her Story Is Now History: Adia Barnes, Dawn Staley Become 1st Black Women to Coach in the Same Final Four Tournament

Simply put, the NCAA has been fucking up. At the onset of March Madness, NCAA officials were forced to apologize for “dropping the ball” after Oregon Ducks forward Sedona Prince put the entire tournament on blast for…well, this: There isn’t a chance in hell that men would be expected to perform at the peak of…

By

Jay Connor

Published

April 1, 2021
University of Missouri Athletic Director Claims South Carolina Fans Spit at and Yelled the N-Word at Women’s Basketball Team

The University of South Carolina Gamecocks and University of Missouri Tigers don’t like each other, and that’s a good thing, especially when it comes to sports. Natural rivalries are what makes sports entertaining, but on Sunday that intensity turned ugly as several reports claim that South Carolina fans spit at and hurled racial slurs at…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

January 31, 2018