Sentences with phrase «black football player»

Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for starring in The Blind Side, a 2009 film ostensibly about a black football player overcoming social inequity and bigotry.

Jerome Holland was the first black football player at Cornell University.

Black churches remind me of the endzone dance after a black football player scores a touchdown.

Trice is the only black player on the Iowa State football team, the first black varsity athlete at Iowa State College (as Iowa State University was then known) one of only a few black football players in the country at the time playing against white opponents.

It's just the beginning, of course, but the university's inability to resolve its differences with black football players plus the shellacking it took from Houston last week make the future look hopeless

Not exact matches

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Clad in black and maroon game jerseys, Eagle football players descended upon the Miami Dolphins training facility, taking center stage for the...

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There's a huge racial divide in football — while 13.3 percent of the country's population is black, 70 percent of professional football players are.

And then this weekend, the school's football team — in many ways, is the face of the university — got involved: Around 30 black players said they will no longer play football until the president resigns.

The last 24 hours had seen football players, coaches and even team owners kneeling in solidarity during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against black people.

Artur Grigoryants, head of the Russian Football Union's disciplinary committee, made the startling statement in response to questioning about why black players in the country were being handed bans for their reactions to the hostile crowds, that seemingly now plague the game in the country.

After all, roughly 1,800 athletes have lost a year's eligibility to Proposition 48 to date, and 86 % of the football and basketball players have been black.

«I am not surprised, Gyan have been one of the excellent players in Black Stars, to me he is one of the best strikers in Africa,» began Sarpong — who oversaw Gyan's development at the Accra Academy — to Kasapa FM [as per Football Ghana].

In December three white players — goalie Bryan Masotta, defenseman Shawn Mansoff and center Matt Oliver — were charged with leaving a message replete with racial slurs on the answering machine of a black Maine football player.

The city's football team, the Browns, was dominating the All - America Football Conference with several black football team, the Browns, was dominating the All - America Football Conference with several black Football Conference with several black players.

Ask him about the responsibility of black players outside football, and he says, «Black players in this league are sucblack players outside football, and he says, «Black players in this league are sucBlack players in this league are suckers.

In fact English football in general is awash with pacy creative black players.

All the football players on the football team are good kids, both the black and white ones.

That's not the case in college football, where black men are nearly half of Division I's football players, but only 14 are head coaches in the FBS — about 11 percent.

Chapman rooms with Bennett, who's black; he also likes the Fat Boys, has dated black coeds and wears so much gold that when he walked into the dining hall recently, a Wildcat football player was heard to crack, «Here comes Rex in his Mr. T starter's kit.»

a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.

And on a Friday night in a South Carolina town, his encounter with a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.

this is just daft walcott is english so is welbeck gnabry is German campbell is costarican djorou is from Switzerland and if your cpmplaining of the amount of black lads in the academy then take it up with the yoputh system because these kids work their asses off to be football players so obviously you are racist

But days later owner Andrew Black put the club up for sale and on transfer deadline day Di Canio saw moves for three players fall through because the Football League wouldn't clear the deals.

«The Plantation» is how some Colorado players refer to the school's athletics facility, because that's where largely black football and basketball teams make the money that supports largely white non-revenue teams.

He has been linked with a move to Sunderland [Sunderland Echo]-- a move which may allow him to adapt to the Premier League and prove himself in English football — and the local newspaper report that the Black Cats have been keeping tabs on the player for the last six months.

Ken I accept that the players are responsible and there is no excuse for the debacle such as at Swansea last week.Of course Wenger didn't coach them to make these mistakes but when it is week in week out you have no option other than to look at the root of who where and why and it alls comes down on Wenger.These are all very good players who have all played and play international football for their respective countries, so the odd mistake is part and parcel but it is more than this and the evidence is there in black and white for all to see.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

«We want to honour Keshi today as a deserving hero of the league and Nigerian football during our Match Day 21 fixtures with a minute silence before kick - off and the wearing of black armbands by all players».

We can be extremely critical at times with Paulo, but sometimes we have to remember that the player is only 23 years old and will almost certainly become one of the stars of European football in the coming years, and he plays in our black and white stripes.

Black Star players celebrating a goal Ghana are one of the biggest and most loved names in world football, but they are not heading to Russia this summer to take part in the 2018 World Cup.

I also would like a black and red plaid shirt like I see around so much on celebs... * think 90s grunge... I also wanted a black blazer but I also tried one on at H&M and I looked like a football player because I have broad shoulders... maybe a blazer isn't a good idea or I just need a different style... So this giveaway was awesome because all these prizes are great for me lol!

A vintage oversized black / navy blazer that originally had long sleeves and shoulder pads so big you can easily be confused with a football player.

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I'm a black male 5 «11 buff brown eyes shave trim good looking smile I'm a football player I'm an outstanding male very mature I'm 23 years old

I'm 19, light skin, 5» 8, muscular, mixed with white / Black / Hispanic, football player, track athlete, can cook, well hung, romantic etc...

However, some successful black men like football players, movie stars, are dating white girls.

It's an underdog story that's a bit formulaic but very well set in its moment, and it tells of a very human experience: though it's about racism - Davis being the first black player to win the Heisman trophy - it's not too heavy - handed, and it's just as much about football, and built on a deep love and understanding of the game.

DVD Releases for January 20, 2009 The Express Rated PG - 13 for thematic content, violence and language involving racism, and for brief sensuality Available on DVD and Blu - ray Based on the true story about Ernie Davis, the first black college football player to win the Heisman Trophy, The Express follows Ernie's life from his childhood to its sad conclusion.

In Stonewall, a hunky football player boards a Greyhound in an all - American, cornfields - and - horn - rimmed - glasses picture of the mid-century Midwest, and arrives in a New York of Lou Reed characters, where coverage of the Apollo space program warbles out of every black - and - white TV set and J. Edgar Hoover haunts the...

Clad in black and maroon jerseys, Stoneman Douglas football players filed in two by two to the front of the church where 17 candles — one in honor of every victim — lined the back of the stage.