“In a sport dominated by Black/African-American players, White America has rallied around Caitlin Clark. The support looks mostly amazing, sometimes fanatical and territorial, sometimes racist.

Otto Black, of Brighton, and Brett White, of Grand Rapids, were among the four players to advance out of Monday's qualifier.

Only 6.1% players on this year’s opening-day rosters are Black, 58 of the 945 players on the active, injured and restricted lists, the smallest percentage since 1955, according to a study by USA ...

While some major sports leagues and governing bodies roll back their anti-racism initiatives, the BWPC is doing the exact ...

Her new book, Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA, is an exploration of how Black basketball players changed the sport in the 1970s.

I’m not usually a big sentimental person, thinking about times gone by or the glory days. However, my youngest sister, ...

Several players the AP interviewed noted the gap between the proportion of Black athletes in the NFL -- 53.5% in 2023, according to The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport -- and that of ...

The average black player does not accumulate much more than half the managerial experience that all other former players do. A black manager is 41% more likely to be fired than a white manager ...

In the NBA, where about 70% of players are Black, 11 of 30 teams — 37% — have a Black coach. In Major League Baseball, three of 30 teams have a Black manager.

Black players created their own leagues after being kept out of MLB from 1920 to 1948 by segregation laws. MLB announced in 2020 it would officially recognise seven of those leagues.

“In a sport dominated by Black/African-American players, White America has rallied around Caitlin Clark. The support looks mostly amazing, sometimes fanatical and territorial, sometimes racist.