Date of Release: September 29, 2009 (Special to ESPN.com) by Richard Lapchick In the course of researching a book on Hispanic athletes, I expected to find a strong Latino presence in baseball, soccer and boxing, and I did. The area that surprised me most, though, was the Latino presence, success and influence in the X…
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Date of Release: September 25, 2009 (Special to ESPN.com) by Richard Lapchick The New York Jets are off to a 2-0 start and the media is in a frenzy over quarterback Mark Sanchez, especially after he outgunned superhero Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in Week 2 of the NFL season. More…
Date of Release: September 24, 2009 (Press Release) The NFL received its highest overall grades ever in the history of the NFL Racial and Gender Report Card. The National Football League achieved… Download Press Release – Adobe PDF
Date of Release: September 17, 2009 (Special to ESPN.com) by Richard Lapchick America lost a champion for student-athletes, for Title IX and for civil rights in sports with the passing of Dr. Myles Brand on Wednesday. No one did more to make college sport live up to its ideals. We knew he’d been fighting deadly…
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Date of Release: September 14, 2009 (Special to ESPN.com) by Richard Lapchick In Johannesburg earlier this month, all the sports talk was about the 2010 World Cup. It dominated the sports pages and TV time. And yet, the NBA created its own space here with the arrival of its Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Program. More…
Date of Release: September 14, 2009 (SportsBusiness Journal) by Richard Lapchick I recently returned from Johannesburg, South Africa, as part of the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders program. It was the sixth time I visited South Africa, a country I came to love while helping lead the sports boycott of its apartheid-era government during the 1970s,…
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Date of Release: July 23, 2009 (Press Release) The WNBA remained as the best employer overall for women and people of color in sport. They have set the standard for sport with their combined A+ grade… Download Press Release – Adobe PDF
Date of Release: June 15, 2009 (SportsBusiness Journal) by Richard Lapchick I am unabashedly a fan of the NBA and the Orlando Magic. I grew up in a house with a father who was a coach in the early days of the NBA. Basketball was part of our lifestyle. I love the game but also…
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Date of Release: June 10, 2009 (Press Release) The NBA remains the industry leader on issues related to race and gender hiring practices according to the Racial and Gender Report Card for the National Basketball Association for the 2008-09 season… Download Press Release – Adobe PDF
Date of Release: May 22, 2009 (Special to ESPN.com) by Richard Lapchick In December, I wrote a column calling for a civil rights movement in college football. It focused on the small percentage of African-Americans and other coaches of color among the 119 Bowl Subdivision schools in football, relative to the 46 percent of college…
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