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No. 19 Miami (Ohio) survives another scare, nips Toledo in home finale Peter Suder scored 19 and Brant Byers added 13 as No. 19 Miami (Ohio) overcame sloppiness throughout to outlast Toledo, 74-72, in Mid-American Conference play and remain as the nation's only unbeaten team Tuesday night in Oxford, Ohio.,Antwone Woolfolk added 14 for Miami (30-0, 17-0), which committe...

6 Decades Before Jackie Robinson, This Man Broke Baseball's Color BarrierSixty-three years before Jackie Robinson became the first African American in the modern era to play in a Major League Baseball game, Moses Fleetwood Walker debuted in the league on May 1, 1884 with the Toledo Blue Stockings in a 5-1 loss against the Louisville Eclipse. Walker, a 26-year-old African...

Death, taxes, and Kirk FerentzSpeculation about Kirk Ferentz retiring from coaching has been going on since the Obama Administration, when Iowa inked its longtime head man to an extension through 2025. Even with the caveat that it was “a few years off,” we’ve seen ideas tossed out for who might eventually take the helm in Iowa C...

Derek Chauvin’s conviction wasn’t progress, and silence from white athletes about Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Ma’Kiah Bryant, and Andrew Brown Jr. proves it

Welp, here we go again. Yet another video of the police using a person of color as target practice is devastating a community and Black America. But this time, I want you to pay attention to who you don’t see or hear from, which are white athletes. ...

Jackie Robinson would be condemning police terror and white America were he alive today

Yesterday was April 15th, Jackie Robinson Day, baseball’s annual event of empty tributes to cover up the fact that 90 percent of teams refuse to hire Black or Hispanic executives or managers despite Jackie’s dying wishes. ...

NBA reportedly offered Jimmy Butler an All-Star spot, but he turned it down because Bam Adebayo wasn’t also invited

How The Crooks, The Cons, And The Legends Built America's Largest Stadium For The Beating Of The Century

Toledo was a place where you could fight a man for money....

College Runner Who Almost Burned To Death Reaches NCAA Final Two Years Later<em></em>

Probably the easiest sports story to write is one about a meteoric improvement. The Wow This Person Got A Lot Better At Sports story is one that works in every sport, honestly, but it tends to be most common in ones like running or swimming. (Stories about rapid improvements in those sports generall...