CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams Parker (L) and MEAC Commissioner Sonja Stills The Get In The Game Sports Business Career Conference, hosted by SBRnet and First and Pen, is excited to announce its featured session, “The State of HBCU Athletics,” led by the HBCU conference commissioners from the Central Intercollegiate Athletic ...
Read More »Ripken’s ‘Unbreakable’ Streak Honored With TOPPS Card Set
When Lou Gehrig halted his consecutive game streak at 2130 in May 1939, it was, as his Yankee Stadium monument reads, a record that “…should stand for all time.” The carvers didn’t know that less than 200 miles to the southwest, in Aberdeen, Md., a three year old Cal Ripken lived who would one day sire ...
Read More »Great Dunbar HS Teams Chronicled In New Book
Good things come in small packages. That’s how’s the saying goes, but when it comes to basketball, it usually doesn’t apply. Enter Muggsy Bogues, the “missing link” that completed the Baltimore Dunbar High School basketball squad that 35 years ago began a two-year undefeated reign as the consensus national champions. ...
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