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• Onward: Bill Walsh (1931-2007)

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:11 pm

  Tags: Onward The Obits, Race Matters, Nfl

  Three years ago, I had the privilege of appearing on a panel with Bill Walsh. Fittingly, it was during a conference on diversity at Stanford University, my alma mater. It was also the site of some of Walsh’s greatest triumphs, where he achieved greatness even before he was discovered by the NFL. The experience prompted an epiphany, the

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• They DID!

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:55 pm

  Tags: Race Matters, Ncaa

  It was really sweet…and cheesy. And a lot of us thought they’d never go through with it. Just minutes after scoring the winning points against my Sooners in the Fiesta Bow,l, Boise State running back Ian Johnson dropped to one knee and proposed to his girlfriend, cheerleader Chrissy Popadics. It was abut as Apple pie all-american

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• Cal Ripken, Jr. - Government Agent

  Published: August 13, 2007, 11:33 pm

  Tags: Sports Culture, Race Matters, Celebrity, Baseball

  The Conspiracy Clan who come here often will love this: Just a couple of weeks after being elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, Cal Ripken, Jr. was named today by the State Department as a “special sports envoy,” which means, far as I can tell, that our tax dollars are now at work sending Ripken around the world to make happy

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• Imus X: Bad Move, Girl

  Published: August 19, 2007, 11:33 pm

  Tags: Rutgers, Sports Culture, Race Matters, Ncaa, College Basketball, Celebrity

  “Thanks” to I-Man, girlfriend went on The Oprah Show! Seemed her name was pretty good back then. I’m not sure whether this is simply about a quick buck. (Okay, maybe it is.) Or whether it’s a mere case of a still impressionable young woman, a college student, getting bad advice. (All right, maybe it’s that, too). But

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• New Era and the Gang(s)

  Published: August 25, 2007, 12:17 pm

  Tags: Sportsbiz, Sports Culture, Nuff Said, Race Matters, Mlb, Baseball

  Sometimes people crack me up. Particularly people who say things that make ne believe they think we’re stupid. Consider the folks at New Era Cap, the company that manufactured the caps that were yanked from stories in East Harlem yesterday after it was discovered the caps were decorated with colors and symbols that represented gangs.

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• Michael Vick: Born Again … ?

  Published: August 27, 2007, 10:22 pm

  Tags: Race Matters, Celebrity, Spirituality, Nfl

  Write this down: Michael Vick’s return to the NFL in 2010 will be the league’s biggest non-Super Bowl Sunday. And it just might even be in a Falcons’ uniform. Loony as it might sound, I’m willing to say you read it hear first after watching Vick on the first day of the rest of his life. It wasn’t perfect, but it was

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• Goodell: Wide Right

  Published: September 15, 2007, 12:21 am

  Tags: Sports Culture, Sportsbiz, Race Matters, Nfl

  Bill Belichick should not be coaching this Sunday. In the brave new world of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, bad behaviors is punishable by taking away the thing NFL crave most: the game. He’s suspended Pacman, Tank, Vick and others for their off-field transgressions. But when one of the NFL’s most esteemed coaches committed a clear

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• Rutgers’ Nutty (and Racist) Professor

  Published: September 28, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: Bcs, Race Matters, Rutgers, Sports Culture

  question without mentioning race, I would like to hear it.” No word yet on whether Dowling will be allowed to continue infecting, uh, teaching young minds. In the 1960s, was actually arrested protesting in support of the civil-rights movement. Sorry, professors, your freedom fighter cared has been revoked.

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• Megan Williams:"If I screamed they would Kill Me"

  Published: October 14, 2007, 11:17 am

  Tags: West Virginia, Crime, Megan Williams, Race Matters, Racsim, Rape

  Megan Williams Interview by Final Call Newspaper  "They made me take a bath in a trash can outside. They poured scalding...read more

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• Injustice Undone!

  Published: October 26, 2007, 2:43 pm

  Tags: Nuff Said, Celebrity, Media, Ncaa, Race Matters, Sports Culture

  Genarlow Wilson - Free Again! He’s free! Genarlow Wilson was just 17 years old when committed the “crime” that obliterated what had been a promising future. Until then he was one of the good ones. Not perfect, mind you, but with a 3.2 GPA, solid credentials in high-school football and the admiration of his peers (he was

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• Applying Interdisciplinary Meanings of Race [Thus Spake Zuska]

  Published: October 27, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: Race Matters

  complex ideas about race and applied them to medical research, much of the work already done on disease and ethnicity might have to change dramatically. That is because the current research standard in medicine and medical research for assessing race is based on the simple fact of self-reporting. But the interrogation of race in the

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• Third Eye Opened.

  Published: October 30, 2007, 4:26 pm

  Tags: Blogroll, Public Enemy, Black Awareness, Chuck D, Hip Hop, P E, Race Matters, Rap

  Growing up in North Philadelphia, music was essential in the Glover household - during the week, my father would play everything from Stevie Wonder to Gil Scott Heron. Saturday nights and Sunday mornings, my mother saturated the walls with gospel music. I loved all

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• An Erroneous Exemption

  Published: November 1, 2007, 10:13 pm

  Tags: Baseball, Media, Race Matters, Sports And Culture, Sportsbiz

  Good for Kim Ng, vice president and assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers Good for De Jon Watson, who was named the Dodgers assistant GM about a month ago. And big ups to Joe Torre, the new manager of the Dodgers and no doubt the most qualified managerial candidate on the market, until today. I’m happy for them all. But not

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• Parental Extortion In The Post-Imus, Post-Baldwin Age [Kids These Days]

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Alec Baldwin, Bounty Hunters, Ireland Baldwin, Kids These Days, Race Matters, They Fuck You Up

  Another celebrity's potty-mouthed racism has been exposed, blah blah blah—especially since we're not sure that "Dog" the Bounty Hunter, the latest "gotcha" tabloid victim, really qualifies as...

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• What's Hot Now: Drawing Jews And Hispanics In Convertibles [This Thing Looks Like That Thing]

  Published: November 9, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Caricatures, Cover Art, David Blum, Drew Friedman, New York Observer, New York Press, Race Matters, This Thing Looks Like That Thing

  Left: Last week's New York Press cover story about how things are sorta sucky for Jerry Seinfeld. Right: this week's New York Observer cover (drawn by Drew Friedman) for a story about how things are...

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