Long before Jackie Robinson, Black jockeys dominated and changed horse racing
In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
Melissa Ludtke blazed a trail in MLB that women in sports media are still following
Just 24-years old and the only woman on the full-time MLB beat at the time, Ludtke won.
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The best NBA announcers and analysts of all time
An ABA champion coach with the Kentucky Colonels in 1975, and two-time NBA Coach of the Year (1978, 2004), Brown is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a contributor ...
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America's Top Black Sportscasters Through the Years
From Greg Gumbel to Robin Roberts, these Black sportscasters have done an excellent job of sharing and narrating the sports ...