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December 20, 2008

Barkley is Bananas

http://blogs.forbes.com/sportsmoneyblog/2008/12/barkley-is-bana.html Charles Barkley’s recent comments that race was the main criteria for Auburn University in picking its football coach are potentially very destructive. On December 13 Auburn named Iowa State’s Gene Chizik as its head coach rather than Turner Gill of the University of Buffalo. Barkley wasn’t at any of the coaching interviews. He hasn’t…
Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
December 20, 2008

BCA chief building case for possible violations of federal Civil Rights Act

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3780386 INDIANAPOLIS — Floyd Keith is tired of waiting for more black coaches to be hired to lead major college football programs and is hoping to make a federal case out of the issue. After years of attempting to persuade university administrators into hiring minority football coaches, the executive director of the Black Coaches and…