Courtesy of The Athletic, a report on how the Celtics' Jaylen Brown aims to attack the socioeconomic stratification in Boston:
As a crowd of high school kids dressed in neon pink surrounded the dais, the man of the hour was [...]
July
24,
2023
Courtesy CBC, a report on trailblazing hockey player Mel Wakabayashi:
Mel Wakabayashi, a Chatham Sports Hall of Famer who played hockey for the Michigan Wolverines, passed away earlier this month at 80.
He's being [...]
Via The Washington Post, a look back at Jim Brown - one of the 10 most important athletes ever to put on a jersey - who was an athletic collage of speed, power, agility and fearlessness on the field. Off the field, he leaned hard [...]
July
22,
2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a look at how Megan Rapinoe’s incandescent career changed more than women’s soccer:
The tattoo, petite and scripted in cursive, reads: “Nature ran her course.” Megan Rapinoe had the [...]
Via Bloomberg, a look at how Black baseball players integrated White leagues and brought with them a different philosophy that helped shift the power dynamics between teams and talent:
No matter what happens before Major [...]
July
17,
2023
Via The New York Times, a look at the documentary: ‘The League,’ Black Baseball’s Field of Dreams
Sam Pollard’s documentary “The League” introduces audiences to the teams, stars and little-known figures who [...]