Sports
NFL Network’s treatment of Jim Trotter shows NFL fails on race issues. By Mike Freeman / USA Today
The Racial Politics of the N.B.A. Have Always Been Ugly. By Jay Caspian King / The New Yorker
Willis Reed, Hall of Fame Center for Champion Knicks, Dies at 80. By Harvey Araton / NYT
Magic Johnson joins Josh Harris’s bid to purchase Commanders. By Nicki Jhabvala, Mark Maske and Liz Clarke / Wash Post
Deion Sanders’ take on why he left Jackson State football for Colorado. J.T. Keith / Mississippi Clarion Ledger
Dusty Baker, World Series champion: On life, baseball and all the love he’s received. By jayson Stark / The Atheletic
Jaylen Brown on Basketball, Activism and Being Black in Boston. By Sopan Deb / NYT
Michael Jordan in talks to sell majority stake in Hornets, sources say. By Adrian Wojnarowski / ESPN
Being a Black women’s basketball player in the Ivy League. By Sean Hurd / Andscape
NFL Owners Are Making an Example of Lamar Jackson. By Jemele Hill / The Atlantic
James Blake’s success, influence in tennis continue after his standout career. By Andrew Jones / Andscape
Africa’s basketball stars are making their mark on the NBA. By Daniel Renjifo / CNN
Building an all-Black World Baseball Classic team. By Clinton Yates / Andscape
An all-Black Little League team made history without playing a game. By Chris Lamb / Wash Post
Tears flow as Howard men earn first NCAA bid since 1992. By John Feinstein / Wash Post
Black former Iowa football players vindicated by settlement Lawyer says. By Chad Leistikow / Hawk Central
After the N.B.A., J.R. Smith Was Lost. Golf Became His Guide. By Jonathan Abrams / NYT
Frederick Patterson was an Ohio State football and auto pioneer. By Branson Wright / Andscape
Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis’s culture wars. By Kevin B. Blackstone / Wash Post
Black Soldiers Cycled 1,900 Miles Across the U.S. So He Did, Too. By Nina Burleigh / NYT
Ja Morant turned himself into an icon. It’s time to act like one. By Jerry Brewer / Wash Post
Quarterbacks Bryce Young, C.J. Stroud and Anthony Richardson are set to make NFL draft history. By Jason Reid / Andscape
Brian Flores’s Discrimination Case Against the N.F.L. Can Move to Court. By Ken Belson and Jenny Vrentas / NYT
After Three Decades of Waiting, Dana Brown Gets His Shot. By Tyler Kepner / NYT
He Was Billed as the Next LeBron. But Will Emoni Bates Make It at All? By Billy Witz / NYT
‘It’s all worth it’: Brad Daugherty savors his historic victory at Daytona 500. By Marc J. Spears / Andscape
