Kevin B. Blackistone

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney laughs during a news conference on Jan. 10, 2017, in Tampa, Fla., a day after the Tigers defeated Alabama 35-31 in the College Football Playoff national championship game.

Martin Luther King Jr. would’ve frowned on Dabo Swinney profiting off of black labor

June 6, 2018 at 12:59 p.m.

They wanted recognition of their right to unionize, which they'd done. They wanted their labor commensurately compensated rather than leaving them at the poverty line, or below. They wanted what...

TV industry has no moral high ground to claim in Erin Andrews case

June 9, 2018 at 5:07 a.m.

A whirlwind day of auditioning and interviewing for an on-air television sports reporting job was winding down for a young woman I know. One of the would-be producers for the...

Cochran left mark on NFL

August 22, 2021 at 10:38 p.m.

Until he invited Marvin Lewis in to chitchat a few years ago, Bengals President Mike Brown said he'd never interviewed a black man for any position of authority with the...

Chaney must do right thing

August 22, 2021 at 10:01 p.m.

A few years ago at an NCAA tournament regional in Buffalo, John Chaney was railing against bad behavior in sports. "Dennis Rodman. Bad hehavior," the Temple coach charged. "This team...

Give NBA stars a break

August 19, 2021 at 6:42 p.m.

The Olympics are a lot of things. They are a reward for having achieved excellence. They are an opportunity to be marveled at and celebrated by the world. They are...

Baker speaks out of school

August 21, 2021 at 4:45 a.m.

Halfway into his first season of having to manage those dog-days-of-summer afternoon ballgames at Wrigley Field, there is evidence that Dusty Baker has been standing out in the sun far...

CRIMINAL TAG DOESN’T FIT

August 21, 2021 at 1:31 a.m.

Most everyone knows two NFL players have been arrested on murder charges. Their stories were national news. Some people know a couple of players last season were linked by federal...

NO GOOD GUYS IN NBA LABOR SPAT

August 11, 2021 at 4:34 a.m.

Well, to Siberia with NBA owners and players, too. . . . This (NBA labor squabble) isn't about a rookie pay scale or a veteran minimum wage or whether marijuana,...

CHANGE IS CONSTANT IN BASEBALL NOW

August 11, 2021 at 12:25 p.m.

There is little to stand in the way of continued innovations such as massive realignment in baseball, save a few fuddy-duddy owners who might not want to play ball by...

A JOKE, RIGHT?

August 9, 2021 at 5:54 p.m.

First, the good news: Major-league baseball-you do recall that sport, don't you?-held a meeting Tuesday in Chicago. Now, the bad news: The meeting the grand ol' game convened was to...

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