The Associated Press approached more than a dozen coaches in the leadup to March Madness to ask them simple questions: How is ...

“Now that you mention it,” McLaurin said, “I’ve never had a Black head coach in high school, college or the NFL. Coordinators and position coaches only.” McLaurin, like the majority of ...

Coach after coach, from Miami’s Jim Larrañaga to Virginia’s Tony Bennett to Villanova’s Jay Wright, have walked away from ...

University of Iowa women’s basketball assistant coach, Raina Harmon, was named to the 2025 ABIS (Advancement of Blacks in ...

He believes he’s just as professional as an assistant who sports a buzz cut. He says when peers look at him, they don’t see a threatening Black man. They see a football coach. So he doesn’t ...

Among his regrets — across his 22-year career as a head coach at Georgia Tech, Alabama, Kentucky and Georgia State, there were Black assistant coaches on his staff that he should have promoted ...

Are football teams being shortsighted in their hiring processes? The first Black coach to win a Super Bowl thinks the best candidates aren’t always given a chance to succeed. When Notre Dame ...

The former point guard and Hall of Famer is an unapologetic model for this generation of Black coaches and players, and the ...

Matthews was the first Black coach in University of Texas athletics ... Matthews started 78 games throughout his professional playing career, posting 13 interceptions and two pick-sixes.