• Williams sisters' father alleges racism at tourney
• Richard Williams: Indian Wells crowd was racist
• Richard Williams: Man threatened to skin us alive "When Venus and I were walking down the stairs to our seats, people kept calling me nigger," Williams is quoted in Monday's editions.

• Black college athletes losing in battle for a degree
  BY MATT MARKEY BLADE SPORTS WRITER

  They win a lot of football games at the University of Michigan, thanks in part to the efforts of black running backs, black wide receivers, and black defensive backs, among others. Michigan does a pretty good job of preparing some of these guys for a career in the pros. It’s the same at Ohio State.

  But, according to the NCAA, both of these college football powerhouses do a lousy job of getting their black athletes in position to walk across the stage in cap and gown and take home their diploma.
  

• Black Sports: Until the late 1960's, many of the best African-American athletes, especially those in the South, attended black institutions. With the advent of integration in the 1970's, many of the athletes began attending white institutions in the South. The contemporary juxtaposition of the black colleges with black players competing against predominately white institutions with nearly all black players is, in some minds, evidence of how thoroughly our ugly past has been eradicated. (NYT free reg)

• FIRING LINE Look to record, not race, for termination reason
  Here's an unhappy truth: Civil-rights groups that react to race when the issue is job performance are letting people down.

  They are, in essence, acting on the very kind of generalizations that, in a different context, they'd abhor. They're compromising the moral authority that's surely one of their most important assets. They're weakening their ability to influence institutions and opinion leaders, and to successfully advocate in cases where there's real evidence of bias.

  Brian Ellerbe was not fired because he's black.
  

• Black Sports and the NAACP: U-M basketball fans want to put Ellerbe in past
  by Terry Foster / The Detroit News
  There appeared to be almost universal agreement that the NAACP and the University of Michigan African American Alumni Council made the wrong move in supporting ousted men's basketball coach Brian Ellerbe.
  "in your eyes a black man was always right"
  "I get tired sometimes when people play the race card in certain situations."
  "Unfortunately when the NAACP gets involved or other black groups get involved and want to retain him solely because he is black, that totally minimizes other legitimate claims those groups may have. It's the old "boy crying wolf" syndrome. When black groups use racism as a crutch to protect a poor performer, those claims just fall on deaf ears in the white community."
  "Lack of appropriate city services, crack epidemic, failing schools, racial profiling, housing discrimination, affirmative action reversals, lack of enforcement of civil rights laws, black-on-black crime. And the top Detroit Chapter NAACP chairman (Rev. Wendell Anthony) is concerned over a basketball coach"

Georgia: MERIWETHER COUNTY: (item in middle of page)
Alleged rape of high school cheerleader by black basketballer investigated Greenville High School officials are under scrutiny following the alleged rape of a cheerleader in the school's band room by a varsity basketball player. The GBI is investigating allegations that school officials knew about the alleged Feb. 23 assault but didn't report it. The mother of the 16-year-old girl told authorities about the incident the following Monday. Maj. Chuck Smith of the Meriwether County Sheriff's Department said school officials did not report it. After the mother reported the attack, the girl underwent a medical exam. Smith said the doctor found evidence of ''forcible activity.''

Senior basketball player Martinez Donta Towns, 18, of Greenville, surrendered at the sheriff's department Saturday and was charged with one count of rape. He was released the same day under $30,000 bond, Smith said. Greenville High School Principal Charlie Glanton said Thursday he has ''no reason at all'' to think any school official tried to cover up the incident or interfere in the investigation.

The Negro Leagues: Dennis Biddle and Jim Cobbin are barnstorming again.
But it’s not like in their days with the Negro Leagues, when they would play in five cities a day and wow audiences with aggressive play, but stand in the shadow of Major League Baseball... The Negro Leagues folded about a decade after Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s ban on black players in 1947.

• Woods inspiring more minorities to play golf

Black Referee charged with stabbing white coach at basketball game
Oliver Lewis Wood pulled out a pocketknife with a 3-inch blade and cut Jerry Sweeney on the left forearm and neck, said Lt. Tom Kirkbride, spokesman for the Fayetteville police.

Sweeney was taken to Fayette Community Hospital, where doctors sewed 17 stitches to close his arm wound before releasing him.

Two coaches suspended after knifing in Fayetteville

On Tuesday, 7- and 8-year-old players watched as the black referee slashed the arm of a coach after a close game in a Fayetteville school gym. The coach was whisked away in an ambulance and given 17 stitches to close the wound in his left arm. Fayetteville police arrested the referee, Oliver Lewis Wood, 46, of Newnan. Wood, minister of Elim Baptist Church in Newnan, was released from the Fayette County Jail on $55,000 bail Wednesday night.

Although the youth basketball association has no formal oversight over the referee, police have charged him in the knifing of coach and Fulton County Marshal Jerry Sweeney, 48, of Tyrone.

Sweeney said he was trying to break up a fight between Wood and Mike Barfield, acting as his assistant coach.

After the meeting, Sweeney said he was disappointed because he was the victim.

"The biggest problem I have is not being able to watch my kids play. I was just trying to keep trouble down," he said.

A group of Fayette County parents came to the meeting at the Fayette County Recreation Park clutching formal complaint letters against Sweeney and Barfield. They said both men have a history of bad behavior at games. (reader-link)

• Black Sports: Latest study in black and white sure to wave red flag
  Jon Entine wrote a book about athletes, sports and no less a topic than human evolution.
  And in it, he concludes it is time to ``acknowledge and even celebrate the obvious:
  It's neither racist nor a myth to say that `white men can't jump.' '' If Entine, a former TV producer, weren't a self-employed writer and speaker, would he be worthy of being fired? Should he be protested? Ridiculed? Censored? Should his 2000 book, ``Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It,'' be burned?

From Fear of extinction by Taki at the Spectator - UK
As the Daily Telegraph so correctly pointed out, ‘Imagine that instead of declaring that the BBC was hideously white, Dyke had said that the British Olympic team was hideously black.’
Back in the Land of the Freebie and Home of the Depraved, professional and college sports are all-black affairs. Basketball, professional and college, is 99.9 per cent black. Football, both professional and college, is 80 per cent black, while track and field is 75 per cent black. Boxing, of course, is completely dominated by blacks and Hispanics, and baseball, the most lucrative of sports, has a majority of blacks and Latinos.

UW snared in black-and-white issue Top prospect Winslow's father notes scarcity of African-Americans among I-A coaching ranks. Black racist Winslow Sr. implied during the broadcast that he favored Michigan State because it had a black head coach and athletic director, thereby bringing race into the debate.

Black Sports: Black boxing champions
Jack Johnson was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1908 to 1915, the first black to hold that title. But some didn't like Jack's style. Number one, he married a white woman.
The government went after him and charged him with the Mann Act -- white slavery, taking a woman across a state line illegally to perform as a prostitute. They wanted to try him for that, so he fled to Paris with his wife.

When he finally came back, he served a year in federal prison. He died in 1946.

Demishea Tucker, 18, testified yesterday that she was 10 feet away from Blount during a fight at a high school basketball game, where Blount was beaten up by star football player Andre Wallace. Hours later, Wallace and his girlfriend, Natasha Marsh, both 17, were shot a total of seven times as they unloaded groceries in Marsh's driveway in Northeast Washington.

Black sports: S. Fla. Changes Racism Probe Policy
TAMPA, Fla. (AP)--The University of South Florida changed its policy of handling complaints of racial discrimination after an investigation of the women's basketball program

Black basketballer association suffering from Confederate Flag-a-phobia
ATLANTA (AP) -- The NCAA is making emergency plans for moving some idiot basketball tournament from Atlanta unless Georgia resolves the contentious issue of its state flag, which bears the dreaded Confederate battle emblem.

• Black sports: Carruth escapes execution, but faces up to 25 years in prison
• Black sports: Black coaches issue debated
• Jets Pick Black as Head Coach

• Apology From Camby Does Not Include Ferry (free reg required)
  
  
• Black Sports: Beauty and the Beast: Victory and Ugly Fight (free reg required)
  "The temptation is not to focus on Marcus Camby losing his senses and going after Danny Ferry, a violent scene that ended with Jeff Van Gundy laying on the Madison Square Garden floor, bleeding, defiantly telling the Knicks' trainers, "I'm all right, I'm all right." [reader explains:] Ferry is WHITE and you may have seen the clip on TV Ferry's back is turned to Camby when he goes to punch him. Little white guy Van Gundy, according to white NBA commentator Peter Vecesy on WTBS tonight, saved Ferry from at least being in the hospital serious hurt.
  

"NFL proves inhospitable to blacks who want to be executives"
Blacks who have almost totally taken over sports in the USA now seem to be demanding that there is no place for whites, even off the field in administration.

Man who defended black baseballer Aaron from racists dies NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Joe Andrews, a Fall River baseball player who helped superstar Hank Aaron weather racism in the early days of his career, died Monday. He was 68.

Two players say black basketball coach sodomized them
A preliminary hearing got underway Thursday afternoon in the criminal case against nationally renowned high school basketball coach Russell Otis, a Compton institution who is accused of molesting a player. The Dominguez High coach, who has pleaded not guilty, was charged Nov. 17 with felony counts of sodomy by use of force and oral copulation, allegedly committed in October at his Carson townhouse. Otis also faces a charge of misdemeanor child molestation stemming from a separate alleged incident involving the same player this fall. If he is convicted, Otis could go to state prison for as long as nine years and eight months.
The player's lawyer, Randy McMurray of Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.'s law firm, says Otis lured the teenager into sex with promises of cash and cars.

O.J. Simpson Appeals Civil Verdict O.J. Simpson has filed an appeal of a $33.5 million civil damages award levied against him following the death of his ex-wife and a friend four years ago

UT fights ESPN's subpoenas of students' records
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A lawyer for the University of Tennessee has asked a federal judge to stop ESPN's attempts to subpoena student records and university documents for defamation lawsuits against the sports network.

The Black Sports Cult and the American Dream
The University will not release 'academic records' of black athletes - many allege a conspiracy of coaches, teachers, administrators, alumni and the media to recruit illiterate
below-average intelligence blacks solely for the promotion of the 'Black Sports Cult'
that has become a 'religion' in American with millions of majority Americans 'brainwashed'
with their obsessed voyeuristic fixation on watching the scholastically retarded sports heroes jump up and down, bump into each other, perform ritualistic homosexual acts, do strange primitive 'victory dances' on the field and ritualistically follow the cabalistic magical numerics of the 'scores' of the games.

The Black Sports Cult promotes gambling, drinking in front of TV, Sports Bar alcohol syndrome, obesity and the shorting of life associated with this lifestyle.

This is reminiscent of the "Bread and Circuses" of the last days of the Roman Empire.
Today it is "Food Stamps and the Black Sports Cult".

The Barbarians will get tired of Foreign Aid. They have infiltrated their spies and are
sharpening their swords. One day America may be rudely awakened when the Barbarians
have sacked the cities, raped the women, eaten the dogs and enslaved those not too fat
for work in the slave labor camps.

- Sports Editor, New Nation News

Synopsis: In a book that is certain to ignite an explosive controversy, 
Herrnstein and Murray dare to reveal their belief that it is intelligence levels, not environmental circumstances, poverty, or lack of education that are at the root of many of our social problems.

"non-denominational" link: Hofstetter's Sports Jerk of the Week
"Criminals, racists, and overpayed gloryhogs are not what sports are about.
Here, we villify all that is wrong with sports, and have fun doing it."

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