football

Double standard for Black NFL quarterbacks

Quarterback Lamar Jackson’s row with the NFL franchise Baltimore Ravens has been making the rounds as of late. Recently, the…

February 22, 2023

Super Bowl can’t disguise systemic racism, big profits

The most popular one-day sports event in the U.S. happened on Feb. 12 this year in Glendale, Arizona — Super…

February 13, 2023

Black NFL coaches face increased injustice

At the beginning of the 2022 season, there were only three Black head coaches in the NFL, whose players are…

January 17, 2023

Pelé meant the world to us Africans

By Tafi Mhaka The following article first appeared on aljazeera.com on Dec. 31, 2022. The death of football legend Pelé…

January 13, 2023

Activists disrupt UPenn/Yale football game

Students and community activists working to tackle climate and housing crises put a temporary halt to a major Ivy League…

October 25, 2022

Slap on Sarver’s wrist, funds for Favre – capitalist culture in sports

U.S. sports — whether professional or amateur — like almost every institution under capitalism, is all about making profits before…

September 21, 2022

Social implications of Brian Flores’ lawsuit vs. the NFL

The single most popular sports event in the U.S., amateur or professional, is the annual Super Bowl, where the National…

February 8, 2022

Out in the NFL: Carl Nassib’s impact

It only took 100 years. The National Football League, founded Sept. 17, 1920, at last has its first openly gay…

June 23, 2021

Syracuse, N.Y., ‘Black Athletes Lives Matter!’

Syracuse, N.Y. Hundreds of Syracuse University students marched through snow during a Black Athletes Lives Matter (BALM) action against police…

April 29, 2021

Megan Rapinoe: soccer star, political activist

Megan Rapinoe’s captivating autobiography, “One Life,” traces how her upbringing and lifelong joy of playing soccer led to stardom and…

April 2, 2021