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BCA Responds To Misrepresentations

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by Glenda K. Wilson
It is not the practice or policy of Black Coaches and Administrators to contact coaches with a promise of employment. This fraud includes subsequent conversations by the perpetrator with hopes of befriending the individual via gaining their confidence by claiming to be concerned about their future employment and the promise of a recommendation for a specific coaching position.
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Clarence NewsomeNewsome Honored For Daring To Dream
by Off the BASN Wire By AJ Carr
In acknowledgement of Black History Month, Newsome -- now president of Shaw University -- Jackson, former basketball player C.B. Claiborne and former football player William Turner were honored at halftime of the Duke-St. John's game Saturday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.


ACCACC's Black Coaches Living The Dream
by Dr. Debby Stroman, Ph.D.
For the second consecutive year, seven African-Americans are leading the charge of the men’s basketball programs at Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami, N.C. State, and Virginia.


Percy ZacharyZachary, Minnesota Sports Pioneer Passes Away
by Marcus R. Fuller
In University of Minnesota sports history, Percy Zachary is remembered for one season, 1952, when he became the school's first African-American to earn All-Big Ten Conference honors.


Black Student-Athletes Are Making Strides
by Gregory Moore
Much has been written and said about whether African American male athletes take their academic studies seriously. For several years, Dr. Richard Lapchick has provided the sports world with non-biased studies on graduation rates and their comparisons to their White male athlete counterparts. In this week’s editorial, BASN’s Gregory Moore writes how this year’s study shows that there is some improvement but that more improvement is still needed.


Floyd KeithThe BCA Comments On Misconceptions Of Black Student-Athletes
by BASN Wire Services
In particular, the professor's comments stating that "(he) was always appreciative of the supposed opportunity it (athletics) gave minority students to get an education, but when they get a fake education, it undermines it" was most disturbing because it reinforces an unfounded and inaccurate public perception about the student-athlete, and in particular, the black student-athlete.


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