Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio With an acid-tongued remark, Tommy Tuberville put to the lie all the sweet talk he used to lure Black athletes.
People are also reading… “They want to control what you have. They want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that,” he said, punctuating that baseless accusation with a barnyard epithet. “They are not owed that.” In the same state, former pro quarterback Brett Favre has been accused of diverting welfare money meant for Mississippi’s poorest residents toward causes such as a new volleyball stadium at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, where his daughter was on the volleyball team.
Even with college athletes finally being able to cash in on their name, image and likeness and having more freedom of movement from school to school, “everybody knows kids sign with the coach,” said Kevin G. Adams, activities director at Varina High School, speaking for himself and not in his capacity at the Henrico school.
Jean-Pierre said it’s important that the colleges do their due diligence when hiring coaches. Financial considerations make it difficult for families to stand on integrity in making college choices, he said. Schools are more interested in won-lost records — and filling stadiums and athletic department coffers — than the content of a coach’s character.Williams: Kanye West's fashion statement says more about his narcissism than about white lives. "In a toxic political landscape already populated by Clarence Thomas and Herschel Walker, Black folks hardly need Ye trolling us," writes The Times-Dispatch columnist Michael Paul Williams.