Gophers/College

Anucha Browne, one of four NCAA female vice presidents and one of four Black vice presidents, was named in 2012 vice-president of women’s basketball championships.

The 2016 WNBA Draft is Thursday this week. Former Gopher teammate Amanda Zahui B. was the second overall pick last year by Tulsa, now Dallas, and for the second consecutive year a Gopher could be among the first players picked.

I had a chance to meet her and spend some time with her at the Final Four, and looking at her frame, I think she has a huge upside and a potential…”

“There’s a need for size around our league. If you want to compete for championships in our league, you’ve got to able to deal with [Brittney] Griner, Tina Charles and some of these great post players, preferably without a double team. So I think she brings value.”

Too many locals and others love to compare U-M redshirt senior Rachel Banham and current Minnesota Lynx guard Lindsay Whalen. Both Minnesota natives played their entire college career at the state’s only Division I school.

I witnessed first hand Connecticut’s first ever national championship in 1995. Tuesday we saw the Huskies capture the program’s 11th national title here on the Indiana Fever’s court, making it a clean sweep as all three division champions finished their season unbeaten.

The cold, hard fact is that most visitors rarely venture beyond downtown for at least two reasons: One, Black-owned establishments usually aren’t located within their “safe zone” (translation: not located downtown), and two, the local chamber of commerce and event organizers haven’t put them in their visitors’ guides.

Spring football at Hamline University starts April 9 and will be led for the first time by the school’s first Black head football coach.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — UConn isn’t the only unbeaten team here in Indy. The Huskies go into Tuesday’s finals as the last team still playing with a zero in the loss column. Lubbock Christian (Division II) and Thomas More (Division III) also came to town over the weekend with unblemished records. Both squads left Monday still […]

Indianapolis — After nearly a month, it is now down to two teams to battle for ‘last team standing’ rights.

While most eyes are on the Lone Star State, some of us would rather turn our eyes toward Indianapolis, the site of the 2016 Women’s Final Four, which begins Sunday at the arena shared by the Indiana Fever and the Indiana Pacers: UConn vs. Oregon State followed by Syracuse vs. Washington.

The semifinals are set for Sunday, and the championship game next Tuesday — in between the Division II and III title games will also be played on Monday. I hit the road, a 700-plus mile trek to this year’s Women’s Final Four in Indianapolis for the first time in a dozen years. It was 2004, a […]

Consider this: What if the April 4 Men’s Final Four championship game next week, with the whole world watching, suddenly didn’t take place as scheduled?

Black athletes, then and now, are willing or unwilling tools in a college sport machine, reflected the architect of the 1968 Olympic boycott, Dr. Harry Edwards.

Are Black athletes in college really being prepared for life after athletics? This is a question being asked by Dr. Billy Hawkins, a kinesiology professor at the University of Georgia.

It’s so easy to ramble in print or media in general, offering uneducated guesses on who might win the NCAA men’s basketball championship, endlessly echo well-worn clichés, whine about who didn’t get in or teams getting bad seeding positions.

The first game was a “what could have been” contest between St. Cloud State and Ferris State. “In a one-and-done tournament…it’s going to rip your heart out,” bemoaned SCSU Coach Bob Motzko after his team’s 5-4 overtime loss.

The NCAA for three weeks each March unleashes its propaganda machine, vainly extolling how much they care about student-athletes.