The most encouraging thing is finally [the racial performance gap is] narrowing. |
The most encouraging thing is finally it's narrowing. |
The most encouraging thing is finally it's narrowing. This is something I've been writing about for so long, and it's been the most discouraging thing about athletics and academics -- that gap has been persistently wide, and has in some cases gotten wider. |
The study shows that the vast majority of the most powerful people in college sports are still white. |
There's been a general improvement in the leagues over a period of time. |
There's been a general improvement in the leagues over a period of time. I think the glaring gaps are at the college level at what are considered to be the top positions. |
They are making their own career decisions to choose basketball and football over baseball. |
They're giving the impression that minorities are not capable of doing these jobs, and that's obviously not true. |
We are seeing the early positive results of the initiative. |
Whether or not anything happened, just staging an event like that is a problem. They are representatives of their university and schools have an understood code of conduct, and these guys obviously thought they were going to get away with it and thought it wasn't a big deal. That is unacceptable. |
Women come from a culture where society has told them all these years that at whatever level you have to be better, you have to work harder, you have to outperform everyone else in order to break through all the gender barriers. In a basketball male culture, it's almost not cool to study. I think it's taken a lot of programs the NCAA has implemented to let those players and their coaches know, 'We've got to perform or we're going to lose scholarship. |