1 week ago Banned college basketball player admits role in betting scheme

Dae Dae Hunter admitted on Good Morning America that he deliberately underperformed in games

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1 week ago A trooper’s shove showed stardom doesn’t protect Black athletes from police

When I was a college basketball player, some believed we were treated differently from other Black and Brown people. An event last weekend suggests otherwiseIt was 1996, my first day stepping foot on Syracuse University’s campus. I saw a big student protest was taking place so, with my freshman’s inquisitive mind, I ventured over to see what was going on. I listened to a passionate sista named Kathy Ade, the president of Syracuse’s student African-American Society. She stood there with her Bantu knots and a megaphone addressing the crowd, discussing the fact that campus security was now going to be able to carry pepper spray. In the 90s – which my daughter Baby Sierra calls “the 1900s,” just to keep me humble – campus security carrying pepper spray was a big deal. Now, they all carry guns. The fear was that they’d use the spray on Black and Brown students without hesitation, at the slightest perceived sign of trouble.Syracuse’s campus newspaper, the Daily Orange, printed a photo of ...

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1 week ago A trooper’s shove showed stardom doesn’t protect Black athletes from police | Etan Thomas

When I was a college basketball player, some believed we were treated differently from other Black and Brown people. An event last weekend suggests otherwiseIt was 1996, my first day stepping foot on Syracuse University’s campus. I saw a big student protest was taking place so, with my freshman’s inquisitive mind, I ventured over to see what was going on.I listened to a passionate sista named Kathy Ade, the president of Syracuse’s student African-American Society. She stood there with her Bantu knots and a megaphone addressing the crowd, discussing the fact that campus security was now going to be able to carry pepper spray. In the 90s – which my daughter Baby Sierra calls “the 1900s,” just to keep me humble – campus security carrying pepper spray was a big deal. Now, they all carry guns. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Player banned by the NCAA for his role in a sports betting scheme acknowledges he point

One of the college basketball players banned by the NCAA for participating in sports-betting operations has acknowledged his role in a gambling scheme

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3 w. ago NCAA revokes eligibility of 6 more college basketball players as it continues sports betting probe

The NCAA has revoked the eligibility of six men’s college basketball players for allegations of sports betting in three separate cases at New Orleans, Mississippi Valley and Arizona State

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3 w. ago Florida’s 7ft 9in Oliver Rioux becomes tallest player in college basketball history

World’s tallest teenager debuts for national champsRioux, 19, plays two minutes in Florida’s 104-64 winFlorida coach Todd Golden had people yelling at him at halftime Thursday night to get 7ft 9in center Olivier Rioux in the game.Golden relented with 2:09 to play – and made history in the process – after chants of “We Want Ollie” swept through the O’Connell Center. Continue reading...

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