Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

HBCU alumni have been supportive of recruitment activities, including participating in HBCU Night held at NBA arenas. HBCU Night not only stages events with NBA teams, such as the Brooklyn Nets, it is expanding to other sports leagues and businesses.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The report asks where all this money is going, how it’s going to be spent, if higher ed is going to move to an employee or revenue-sharing model, and how this will impact other sports. Meanwhile, the NCAA will govern all other sports. This isn’t a proposal to dismantle every conference.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“I don’t think anyone in college sports has ever witnessed a bigger blunder on the part of a university or a more unfair punishment aimed at the players—the only people in this mess who did everything right,” Mars wrote in the statement posted online. But this is the college sports equivalent of doing just that.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Sports communication: The Class of 2026 has always known LeBron James as the most recognizable sports icon on the planet. LeBron James entered the NBA in 2003, and in 2004, the year many of the Class of 2026 were born, his jersey topped the best-seller list for the first time; in 2022, James’s jersey still tops the list.

Arts And Sciences 102

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2022

More than 15,000 athletes from all sports entered their names in the transfer portal in the first year it was created. They may be able to play more and gain greater visibility for their efforts thereby increasing the likelihood of being a high draft pick by the NBA. And, of course, there is the monetary angle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

During the years she played high school basketball, Chayla collected NBA and NCAA men's basketball trading cards. She is originally from Tennessee, raised in a family of athletes -- men and women -- so she was always around sports, and grew up hearing stories about her mother’s sisters playing basketball in high school.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I noted in my remarks that in professional sports public flare-ups involving controversial speech (such as an NBA player’s recent antisemitic tweets ) are relatively rare. What is the opposite of death threats? Athletes are given media training within an inch of their lives.

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