By Tim Lacy, Special to the AFRO A potpourri of sports was available for the viewer’s pleasure last weekend. It was hard to make a choice with The Kentucky Derby, the NBA Playoffs and the NHL playoffs assaulting your TV at the same time. Throw in a little golf and you pick ’em. I enjoyed […]
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LeBron’s Not Jordan, He’s Better
By Stephen D. Riley, Special to AFRO The LeBron vs. Jordan debate has raged since James’ rookie season back in 2003. It’s time to cut it out, LeBron’s better. No, he’s not better skill-wise and probably will never have the amount of rings, MVPs and accolades that Jordan has. But it’s LeBron, he’s just better. Where’s […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Who Has Had the Better Playoff Run: Boston or LeBron?
By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley, AFRO Sports Desk The Boston Celtics are missing two all-stars and the Cleveland Cavaliers are missing consistent contributors around LeBron James, yet both teams stand a game away from meeting up with each other in the Eastern Conference Finals. The two teams have turned adversity into advantages and are steamrolling […]
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District Sports Teams Living up to ‘Scandal’ Series
By Stephen D. Riley, Special to AFRO Sex, bigotry and racism—Washington, D.C., has it all, and I’m not even talking about politics. If you’re a sports fan trapped in the District I don’t know who you’re more ashamed of after the first week of May, the Wizards or the Washington football team. If allegations from the […]
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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 […]
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Wasn’t It Sweet Watching Ozzie Newsome Use His Last Ever First-Round Pick on a Black Quarterback?
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor Isn’t it fitting that Ozzie Newsome would use his last ever first-round draft pick on Lamar Jackson? Just think about it: The very first African-American general manager in NFL history used the very last first-round draft pick of his 22-year executive career on a super talented, yet sidelined Black quarterback. […]
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Should the Ravens Start Lamar Jackson on Day One?
By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley, AFRO Sports Desk With former Louisville signal caller Lamar Jackson in tow, the unofficial stopwatch is on Joe Flacco’s tenure as the Baltimore Ravens starter. After the Ravens’ failed to make the playoffs for the last three seasons, the sizzle on a proud career from Flacco has lost some of its zip. With injuries and incumbent play becoming the […]
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Another Viewpoint: Jim Crow Is Still Alive on the Golf Course
By Tim Lacy, Special to the AFRO Jim Crow is alive and well and stalking the fairways of America’s golf courses. Recently a foursome of Black women were attempting to enjoy a round of golf at Grandview Golf Club in York, Pa., when they were approached and informed that they were playing too slow. Since they […]
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Washington NFL Team Actually Got Better with 2018 NFL Draft
By Dion Johnson, Special to the AFRO As a lifelong fan of the Washington Football Team, it is hard as hell to offer any sort of praise for a franchise that has continued to deliver mediocrity and dysfunction throughout my adult years of watching them play. Yet, amazingly, the front office seems to finally have done […]
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From Shazier to Shaquem, NFL Draft Full of Headlines
By Stephen D. Riley, Special to AFRO The NFL has been under so much scrutiny the past few years for health concerns, domestic violence accusations and social issues that it feels almost unfair to pile on during a weak moment but heck, why not? The NFL Draft continues to be pimped out by the league at […]