Brando Simeo Starkey
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HBCUs getting serious about preparing their students for esports future
With much to gain for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) by delving into the esports space, then owning it and making it theirs, conferences a… → Read More
Two Black rugby stars aim to showcase their skills and the game to America
Naya Tapper and Perry Baker, two of America’s star rugby players, want to catapult their sport into the sports mainstream. The Premier Rugby Sevens, a new domes… → Read More
Who is the next Cameron Payne, a player who elevates his game and helps make a team an NBA title contender?
In the NBA, one team’s castoff can become another team’s critical piece in building a championship-caliber team: witness Cameron Payne of the Phoenix Suns. Duri… → Read More
The Olympics will introduce the world to rugby star Naya Tapper
When the USA women’s national rugby sevens team, the Eagles, compete for gold at the Tokyo Olympics, one of the team’s top players will be 26-year-old wing Naya… → Read More
This NBA season format guarantees more must-see games, drama and fun for fans
Pretend the NBA season was a television series. Does it feel like one with few stakes until the final episodes — the postseason — where suddenly everything matt… → Read More
Two trailblazing women part of NBA 2K League this season
On Wednesday, the NBA 2K League will begin its fourth season. As is true throughout the sports world, the NBA 2K League has had to reckon with issues of gender … → Read More
Wendi Fleming’s gaming dreams lead her to US Esports national team
Perseverance defines the journey of Wendi Fleming, an NBA 2K gamer and the only woman on the USA Basketball E-National Team that will compete this weekend in th… → Read More
Esports leagues growing on HBCU campuses
There is growing evidence that historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are getting involved in the video game and esports space, recognizing that o… → Read More
Why the Black Lives Matter movement should claim the 14th Amendment
Black Lives Matter — the chant that has drowned out all other sounds in this moment of racial reckoning — must transcend the language of morality and adopt the … → Read More
This is what white people can do to end racism
Four hundred years later, America’s congenital demon still bedevils it. A nation built for white people, though reliant upon Black sweat, remains unable to exor… → Read More
Mental stress is an unspoken part of the game for esports athletes
Pinned to the top of his Twitter page, Brad “Scar” Vaughn, a professional Mortal Kombat 11 player, sends a pertinent message to his followers: “Mental health &g… → Read More
‘Smug’ Huggins’ mastery of ‘Street Fighter’ brings all kinds of shine on Twitch
“I had to do what I had to do,” Bryant “Smug” Huggins, a professional Street Fighter V gamer, quipped dryly after pummeling a competitor four times in a row dur… → Read More
How the slavery-era Ancestry ad is part of a larger problem of race in commercials
This is just the most recent instance of a company using interracial couples as a hollow vessel to signal racial progress. That’s what I thought on April 18, wh… → Read More
After three years, it makes no sense there are no black female characters in Overwatch
The second season of the Overwatch League, perhaps the world’s most popular esports league, has commenced. Ahead of the league’s second week of play, one questi… → Read More
What does it mean when white police are convicted of killing blacks?
In her book White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960, Lisa Lindquist Dorr tells the story of Nannie Strayhorn, a black woman living in Ji… → Read More
Even with no playoff wins, Marvin Lewis is still the best coach for the Cincinnati Bengals
What happens when a team sticks with a coach year after year? Just pooh-poohs the incessant advice from fans and sports media to fire him and instead remains lo… → Read More
What we can learn from LeBron James, school superintendent and the greatest of all time
How do we create more LeBron Jameses? Not LeBron the dominant basketball player. But the LeBron who helped open a public school, The I Promise School, geared to… → Read More
The real future of football is as an esport
Football will disappear. Maybe not tomorrow, but at some point, football will practically vanish from popular culture. Not like a snap of the fingers, but gradu… → Read More
Dak Prescott isn’t a race traitor because he thinks there’s a better way to protest
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott told reporters during a July 27 training camp news conference that he opposed protesting racial injustice during the nat… → Read More
OKC keeping Paul George means nothing for Toronto’s chances at re-signing Kawhi Leonard
In the wake of the Kawhi Leonard trade to Toronto, Raptors fans should not take comfort from the Oklahoma City Thunder re-signing Paul George. That’s not how co… → Read More