Date of Release: December 7, 2009 (Press Release) Updated: December 22, 2009 Overall academic progress continued while the gap between white and African-American football student-athletes increased slightly for the 68 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools (formerly known as Division I-A schools) playing in this year’s college football bowl games according to a study released today…
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Date of Release: November 24, 2009 (Press Release) This is the 16th issue of the Racial and Gender Report Card (RGRC), which is the definitive assessment of hiring practices of women and people of color in most of the leading professional and amateur sports and sporting organizations in the United Sates. The report considers the…
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Date of Release: November 17, 2009 (Press Release) The key leadership positions at Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools and conferences remained overwhelmingly white and male even though there was a record number of nine head coaches of color in the 2009 college football season at the FBS schools (formerly Division IA) according to a new…
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Date of Release: November 10, 2009 (Press Release) The Scholar-Baller® Program, in conjunction with the NCAS announced the winners of the Academic Momentum Award. Seventy-nine nominations were received from 50 different colleges and universities across the country. A male winner was chosen from all of the NCAS’ 10 regions and a female winner was chosen…
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Date of Release: October 26, 2009 (SportsBusiness Journal) by Richard Lapchick It is still hard to believe that Myles Brand is no longer with us. We all lost a warrior for student athletes, Title IX and civil rights in sports. On Wednesday, thousands will gather in Indianapolis to pay tribute to his life and achievements.…
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Date of Release: October 20, 2009 (Press Release) MLS earned a third consecutive solid A (92) for racial hiring after getting A’s in the categories of MLS League Office, players, head coaches, team president/CEO and team professional administration. MLS had 93.4 points for racial hiring practices in 2008 and 93.3 in 2007… Download Press Release…
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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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