By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor A group of high school tennis team players in Telfair County, Ga., will be disciplined by the school superintendent after posting a “racist” photo online last week, according to news reports. According to CBC affiliate 13WMAZ, https://www.13wmaz.com/mobile/article/news/local/superintendent-telfair-county-students-will-be-disciplined-for-racist-photo/93-553057097 several White players for Telfair County High School were seen in a photo wearing white […]
Author Archives: Perry Green
AFRO Sports Editor
Posted inAfro Briefs, National News
25-Year-Old Arrested After Posing as Homeless to Play High School Basketball
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com A man in his mid-20s pretended to be a homeless victim of Hurricane Harvey so that he could register as a 17-year-old student to play high school basketball in the Dallas, Texas area, according to reports. According to Fox 4, 25-year-old Sidney Bouvier Gilstrap-Portley posed as a 17-year-old kid name Rashaun Sidney […]
Posted inAfro Briefs, Sports
Supreme Court Ends Law that Prohibits Sports Gambling
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com It looks like sports gambling may be on its way to Maryland, and every other state for that matter, as the Supreme Court decided Monday to ban laws that prohibit states from legalizing betting on sports. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of ending the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports […]
Posted inAfro Briefs, Sports
Did ESPN Hire Sage Steele to Appease Racist Viewers?
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com ESPN announced over the weekend that it will be hiring Sage Steele and Kevin Negandhi as the new lead anchors for the 6 p.m. edition of its SportsCenter show. Steele and Negandhi will serve as the permanent replacements for former SportsCenter anchors Jemele Hill and Michael Smith, who both left the […]
Posted inNational News
John McEnroe Says Trump Once Offered Him $1Million to Face Serena Williams
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor Most folks who’ve seen tennis superstar Serena Williams play before thinks that she could probably beat just about anyone, men included. Williams is the only tennis player ever, male or female, to have won 10 Grand Slam singles titles in two separate decades, and her 23 career Grand Slam championships […]
Posted inAfro Briefs, Sports
Mother of Duke Star Wendell Carter Compares NCAA to Slavery
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com The NCAA has been under fire lately as several high profile figure and celebrities have criticized the association for making billions in revenue off of college athletes, while restricting the actual players from profiting from their talents. Even NBA megastar LeBron James spoke out bashing the NCAA, calling it flat […]
Posted inAfro Briefs, Sports
Former College Player Threatens to Sleep with Coaches’ Wives If He’s Not Signed
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com A Florida man had his house raided by a Police SWAT team after threatening to sleep with the wives of the Dallas Cowboys’ employee staff. According to TMZ, the Melbourne Police Dept. confirmed that a SWAT team was sent to the home of Keyon Reed, a 26-year-old former linebacker for […]
Posted inNational News
Trump Wants to Talk Race with Kaepernick at White House Summit
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor President Donald Trump wants Colin Kaepernick to attend a summer summit at the White House to discuss race, according to People.com. Darrell Scott, a Cleveland-based pastor and adviser to the president, was the first to share the news of Trump’s summit plans, telling People that there will be two separate […]
Posted inNational News
Eric Reid Joins Kaepernick in Suing NFL for Alleged Collusion
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor It looks like the NFL’s owners will be facing another grievance suit alleging collusion, this time filed by Colin Kaepernick’s former teammate Eric Reid. According to TMZ Sports, Reid has decided to follow Kaepernick’s lead in suing the league for alleged collusion, as both players remain unsigned following their decision […]
Posted inCollege
MSU Softball Wins First MEAC North Division Title in School History
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com The Morgan State Lady Bears softball team is headed to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Championship Tournament and they’re favorites to win it all after finishing the regular season with easily the best record in the MEAC. Morgan State edged out crosstown rival, Coppin State, 1-0, in the regular season finale […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Another Young White Athlete Caught Casually Saying the N-Word
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com Apparently young White folks just can’t get enough of saying the N-word. In the latest episode of “I Should’ve Deleted My Twitter,” new NFL draft pick Josh Allen, a 21-year-old White man from Firebaugh, California, was recently exposed for repeatedly saying the word “n*gga” in multiple tweets from […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
NFL Legend Jim Brown Says He Wouldn’t Sign Kaepernick
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com Jim Brown recently said that if he was a general manager of an NFL team that he wouldn’t sign Colin Kaepernick. Brown, a former Pro Football Hall of Famer for the Cleveland Browns, appeared as a guest on the Rich Eisen Show radio podcast and discussed how a recent meeting […]
