The latest TIDES’ college sport study showed that a primary reason why there continues to be a low numbers of Blacks in key sports leadership roles is because the positions of power held by White men.
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Grady to voice Wolves TV play-by-play
The radio station’s nighttime host also will do a ‘Life in the Pack’ podcast for the second consecutive season on WCCO Radio.
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MLB’s racial, gender hiring earn mediocre grades
‘Baseball has put a lot of money and effort into trying to increase the popularity at the youth level, but the numbers are still plummeting.’
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Sports report card finds racial hiring up, gender hiring down
‘We’ve been advocating for more diversity, and the NCAA has consistently said that the individual schools won’t agree to it.’
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Social justice commitment graded in NBA report card
Carmelo Anthony, now with the Los Angeles Lakers, was the inaugural winner of the award that will be given annually to a current NBA player who pursues social justice, equality, respect, and inclusion.
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COVID exacerbates Black-White graduation gaps
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) last week released its Keeping Score When It Counts’ annual report that showed ‘troubling statistics.’
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NBA and WNBA lead in diversity and inclusion
The WNBA and the NBA have for several years set the standard for diversity and inclusion in pro sport, consistently getting high marks in racial and gender hiring.
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Will calls for change improve diversity in sport front offices?
‘Are we playing fair when it comes to sports? Does everyone, regardless of race or gender, have a chance to make and run the team?’
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A rare sighting of Black head coaches
History was made last week on the University of Minnesota campus, but it was virtually ignored by the locals.
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WNBA sets the bar high for racial, gender hiring
The WNBA has earned top marks for racial and gender hiring with A-pluses across the board — racial, gender and overall — says The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES).
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Black-White grad gap shrinks
While countless Americans bemoaned their busted brackets on the road to the Final Four that winds up here in Minneapolis next week, two elephant-in-the-room issues still get overlooked annually: The players still don’t get a dime of the millions they generate, and the graduation disparity gaps between Black and White male and female basketball players still exist.
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A call for action to force more diversity in college sport leadership
The 2018 College Sport RGRC moreover shows that Whites hold over 85 percent of the 395 campus leadership positions, and White men hold 73 percent of the 130 presidents.
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Baseball growing more diverse off the field, if not on
Conclusion a two-part column Despite its overall paucity of Blacks on the field, baseball has shown a significant increase in racial hiring off the field. According to the 2018 MLB Racial and Gender Report Card by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES), nearly 34 percent of MLB Central Office professional staff are […]
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A changeless ‘dark cloud’ hangs over sports media
Racial and gender diversity remain stuck on stupid First of a two-part column The 2018 Associated Press Sports Editors Racial and Gender Report Card sadly shows little progress for Blacks in key positions over the last three years. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) earlier this month published its sixth report card […]
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Grad racial gaps stagnant among Sweet Sixteen men
Women have nearly closed the gaps The Sweet Sixteen round begins this week in men’s and women’s college basketball. But nary a word has been said about the continuing graduation disparity gap between Black and White players. Our March Madness coverage continues this week not on the games, but rather on the fact that while […]
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Introducing a new college bowl game: the Disparity Bowl
It’s that time of year in the waning days of the college football season when talk of coaches being fired and hired, the fairness or unfairness of the current four-team playoff system, and other such subjects are oft-discussed. But buried under such talk is the ever-existing graduation-rate gap between Division I Black and White football […]
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WNBA again earns top grades for gender and racial diversity
The WNBA has since its inception been the sports industry leader for racial and gender hiring practices. It recently got an A for its overall race, gender and combined grades for the 13th consecutive year from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES). The league received five A-plus grades in five categories for […]
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Major League Baseball builds ‘diversity pipeline’
Fourth in an occasional series Longtime columnist William C. Rhoden has written on The Undefeated.com about the “blinding Whiteness in virtually every sector” of college sport, including key leadership and other essential positions, calling it the “diversity conundrum.” MSR’s multi-part series expands on Rhoden’s observation. This week…WANTED: male or female of color looking to break […]
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Timberwolves show improvement in 2017 diversity report card
The National Basketball Association under Commissioner Adam Silver’s leadership remains the undisputed racial and gender hiring leader, according to the latest “Racial and Gender Report Card” (RGRC) by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES). “Generally speaking the NBA tends to improve on both racial and gender hiring practices” each year, noted TIDES […]
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U of M athletic director talks the talk of ‘community engagement’
Time will tell if he also walks the walk Mark Coyle later this month will celebrate his first-year anniversary as Minnesota athletics director. He was hired last May. The MSR historically, through sports columns and in its commentary section, has published writers who have called out the University of Minnesota about its culture, especially in […]