Black History Month- Mark Pavlovich
Black History month is here and, for many of you that have listened to us on SportsNetUSA.net and to Friday Nite Mics, you have heard us discuss the plight of black athletes and coaches on a variety of topics. We have discussed Negro baseball and have wondered out loud how good some of the old Hall of Famers would have been in baseball if they would have had to face every athlete of their time. If we go back in time we have wondered how many NCAA Championships would have been won by certain teams if segregation had not been the law of the land. We still wonder about golf (country club) policies across this country that, in 2010, some clubs are still closed to people of color.
As for coaches of color, no one has hollered louder than TitleIX and the Buddha of Babble about equality in the coaching ranks for college and professional teams. So to all of the great athletes of our time, the ones from the past and to those of you in the future, we throw in our thoughts and the thoughts of others on Black History Month:
Here’s a link to “Top 75 Althletes and Pioneers of Sports Inclusion” an article written by Leland Stien III originally published by the Los Angeles Sentinel. http://www.afrogolf.com/top75blackathletes.html
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February 10th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Gentleman,
My grandfather wants to thank you, He enjoyed your in between halves talk about John McClendon. He found the fact that Coach McClendon was the first three time consecutive winner in a major college category interesting, but he would like to know more about the secret “DUKE game”. Maybe you can pass it on during your next Vanguard Broadcast
February 11th, 2010 at 10:57 am
In 1993 Nelson Mandella shared the Nobel Peace Prize for taking apart and destroying the system of apartheid in South Africa, a year later he became the President of South Africa. But before either he endured 27 years of prison in the South Africa’s Victor Verster for his activities with the African National Congress. His crime a political fight for the ending of a apartheid based goverment