Sentences with phrase «black players»

A special exhibit showcases the contribution to baseball made by black players.
They had great black players from all over the country and were good enough to have put us all out of business.
Perhaps there would have been a reference to racial imbalance — the great bulk of the cocaine stories have dealt with black players, and the four suspended players are black.
That look is of a skinny, Russian blonde player, as opposed to a curvy, muscular black player.
For instance, 70 percent of black players had low vitamin D, compared with 13 percent of white players.
Sylvester Harris wasn't just the first black player on the Scooba team; he was the first black to attend the college.
He shows us as black players in the NFL that he gets it.
Fifty Years Ago, over Fourteen Games in May, Jackie Robinson Erased Any Doubt that He Belonged in the Majors, Clearing the Path for Other Black Players
In the Black Odyssey series, Bearden establishes an artistic bridge between Homer's poem — arguably the definitive work of classical mythology — and African - American culture by depicting Homeric characters as black players on the timeless stage of antiquity.
He will be the only black player on Northrop Field tomorrow.
A timely piece Scott, I always feel frustrated when listening to pundits talk about black players not only for our club but in general being described only in terms of physical attributes.
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.
After less than a season of Class A ball at Modesto, Calif., Reggie went on to Double A Birmingham at a time when black players were housed separately from white players, an injustice that Reggie took with quiet equanimity.
Bear Bryant got his first black player at Alabama in 1970.»
The city's football team, the Browns, was dominating the All - America Football Conference with several black players.
During a 2004 friendly between England and Spain, the Spanish support were particularly keen on abusing black players Ashley Cole and Shaun Wright - Philips.
In 1966, the NBA had not just black players, but a black head coach, Bill Russell.
While black players had been prominent in previous NCAA finals — the University of San Francisco's championship teams of 1955 and»56 were led by black stars Bill Russell, K.C. Jones and Hal Perry — they were still considered to be something of an aberration.
Also Arsenal is a cool sounding name, and i like that all my favorite black players played for them....
Until the likes of Tavecchio leave the game, and Arigo Sacchi who recently said there were too many black players at youth level in Italy, things can't change.
We had two young black players — Hensley Meulens and Gerald Williams — who were sent to Columbus after spring training.
«The Dodgers chose Jackie not because he was the best black player around, but because he would take the verbal taunting and physical abuse and just play harder.
Rose's comments about «Duke only recruiting black players that were Uncle Toms» during the Fab Five documentary was discussed by Duke's Brian Davis, who responds with a shot back at the Michigan team (at the 2:15 mark).
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.
The embellishment held, as articulated by another Register columnist, Chuck Offenburger, that Trice was «a great black player of another era — an era when blacks were often beaten to death, as Trice essentially was, because of his skin color.»
Is this taking away from Trump doing his presidential duties by bashing black players and starting a culture war?
In fact English football in general is awash with pacy creative black players.
When Coach Lloyd Eaton of Wyoming's unbeaten football team suspended his 14 black players after a bitter dispute he started a controversy that has aroused passions throughout the state
«Liverpool is not a club that welcomes black players, unless they are English — but if they are not they don't stand a chance.
At one time «Big Ron» had done so much for emerging black players in the racist backdrop of the 1970s, but he quickly undid all that good work with a poor choice of words regarding Chelsea stopper Marcel Desailly.
When you are pandering to black players @CoachJim4UM in your AI jerseys & inviting rappers, but you don't respect the struggles they have?
He's like, «Nah, I'm a part of this fight, but these [black players] are the generals.
+ The 12 - 2 (Green) team took FIRST place at NCVA's 2015 Bay View Classic + City Beach 17 - 1 (Black) took FIRST place at NCVA 2015 Regionals as well as THIRD at the 2015 AAU Nationals in 17 Open + 17 - 1 Black players Hannah Turnlund and Chanti Holroyd each earned All - Tournament Honors at AAU Nationals
On the other side, Penn State's greatest tradition — the «We Are» chant — was born in 1948, when All - American guard Steve Suhey is said to have shot down SMU's request to meet about the Nittany Lions taking black players to Texas.
It fits right in with a man who was unsuccessfully sued for wrongful termination by former general manager Elgin Baylor, who claimed, among other things, that Sterling once said, «I would like to have a white Southern coach coaching poor black players,» and that Sterling would bring women into the locker room to gaze at his players» «beautiful black bodies.»
Toure later said he did not exclude the possibilty of black players boycotting the 2018 World Cup in Russia as a result of their treatment at the hands of Russian fans.
Lukaku isn't the first and is unlikely to be the last black player to have his intelligence unfairly questioned though.
However, the anti-discrimination FARE Network has said there were chants mocking an injured black player.
An opportune time, then, to ask Stan Horne about (among other things) his experiences as the first ever black player for a trio of current Premier League clubs: Villa, Fulham and his beloved Man City.
The Russian side tweeted a video of black players training in the sun with the caption translating as: «See how the chocolates melt in the sun.»
Williams, 21, became only the second black player in history to play for Athletic, and the first to score while wearing their colours.
Synopsis: Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) is a white basketball hustler who banks on black players underestimating his skills on the court.
Major League Baseball did not officially exclude black players from the game in the 1940s, but there was an unwritten rule among owners.
Spring training has just begun and Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) has decided to make the bold move to break the color line and bring the first black player into the National League.
Basketball drives 17 - year - old Sticky, a white boy among mostly older black players, in this well - paced coming - of - age novel.
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