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Motorsports coach and manager Rod Reid has announced the development of a Black-owned race team that will be hiring Black engineers, drivers and mechanics to compete at the 2021 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship – the first step towards the NTT IndyCar series. The team is called Force Indy and they are partnering up with Penske […]

The NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, NFL’s Green Bay Packers, and MLB’s Milwaukee Brewers, are working with Microsoft Corp., creating the Equity League. A networking initiative with an emphasis on supporting Black and Latino entrepreneurs. Packers officials say 1% of venture capital-backed startups have Black founders and less than 2% are Latino. Only 3% of employees at […]

Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians are getting rid of their team name. According to David Waldstein and Michael S. Schmidt of The New York Times. Cleveland’s official announcement regarding the change could come this week, sources told Waldstein and Schmidt. Cleveland has used the controversial name since 1915. The franchise already stopped using the “Chief Wahoo” logo […]

Since his recent ACL injury back in October, Odell Beckham Jr. has had plenty of time to take on other endeavors while he’s busy healing up. The three time Pro Bowler has since become a professional streamer, joining up with colleagues like Dr. Disrespect and sharing all of his hours on Call of Duty with […]

Vicki Johnson has been hired by the Dallas Wings to be their new head coach, making her the first and only Black woman currently holding the title in the entire WNBA, which is made up of 70% Black players. The turnaround comes after coach Brian Agler couldn’t take the Wings to the playoffs last season […]

For the first time in their NBA careers, Rochester natives Thomas Bryant and Isaiah Stewart will be playing against each other — an event 60 years in the making. On Friday the first half of the 2021 NBA schedule was released and it showed the first of three Wizards vs Pistons matchups. The last time […]

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has finally announced that basketball legends Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan will be inducted in May 2021. The induction was originally supposed to take place in August, but since COVID-19 has stuck around for so long, it kept getting postponed. Now ESPN is reporting that the […]

On Saturday, Roy Jones Jr. and Mike Tyson got in the ring for an exhibition boxing match that was very difficult to predict. It turns out, the heavyweight legends are pretty evenly matched. The fight was called at a draw after eight, two minute rounds full of signature moves from both fighters. Sources say that […]

Retired NBA player Lamar Odom and film producer Jojo Ryder have teamed up to create a documentary that follows Odom’s sports career and personal life. The film will showcase Odom’s rise to fame and will also highlight the hard times when he dealt with substance abuse and his marriage to Khloe Kardashian. According to the […]

This weekend former champions Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. meet in an 8-round exhibition match from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Tyson, was one of the most feared heavyweights in history, dominating the division over the late 1980s, becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history with brutal punching power that carried him to a […]