Category Archives: Culture
Huge Gap Between Drafts In NBA, MLB
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By DERON SNYDER Jan Vesely’s magic moment came when he kissed his girlfriend on ESPN and shook hands with NBA commissioner David Stern. Bobby Lucas‘ magic moment came when he attended a pre-game reception at Nationals Park and shook hands … Continue reading
Reading Fights Summer Learning Loss
By VANESSA W. SNYDER I’m grateful and humble that my daughters enjoy reading. However, there are times when I fear the computer and other technology might be hampering their interest in reading. Since I’m a teacher and since it’s summer … Continue reading
Happy Father’s Day, To A Dad I’ve Never Known
By DERON SNYDER An open letter to my father, Stanley Howard Snyder: Hi. Another Father’s Day has come and gone, yet another that I spent wondering how it would’ve been having you in my life. Ma says that you liked … Continue reading
Mavs’ Victory Good For NBA, One For The ‘Ages’
By DERON SNYDER You don’t have to be a LeBron James/Miami Heat hater to be glad that the Mavericks won the NBA championship. You don’t have to detest the conspiracy among James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to be happy … Continue reading
NCAA Athletes Strictly Amatuers At Entitlement Game
By DERON SNYDER Their high-profile positions give them access to gifts and services not available to everyone else. They know they’re not supposed to accept the extra benefits, but they do so anyway, often bringing shame to their institutions when … Continue reading
LeBron’s Big Crime? He’s More Like Other ‘MJ’
By DERON SNYDER The folks at Nike were amazingly prescient in November 2005 when they unveiled a 110-foot high by 212-foot wide billboard to introduce their new ad campaign for LeBron James – “We Are All Witnesses.” Yet they couldn’t … Continue reading
HBCU Athletics Not Keeping Up With Academics
By DERON SNYDER Fifty or so years ago, before they became commonplace at major colleges such as Louisiana State, the University of North Carolina and the University of Florida, the nation’s top African-American student-athletes played at HBCUs such as Grambling, … Continue reading
Being Gay In Sports Won’t Matter One Day
By DERON SNYDER In other news, Phoenix Suns president Rick Welts announced that he’s gay. He’s undoubtedly not the only such executive in the league. Surely other teams also have homosexuals on the payroll. About the only thing remarkable would … Continue reading
Cultivating curiosity in kids
By VANESSA W. SNYDER Intellectual curiosity. According to Urbandictionary.com it is a desire to learn more about a person, or a thing, or a way of life. That’s what I love to see in my children and the children I … Continue reading
Blacker Berries And Bitter Juice
By DERON SNYDER Here we go again. Just two months after ESPN’s The Fab Five documentary sparked a controversy involving Jalen Rose and Grant Hill, we’ve suffered another instance of black athletes sorting our dirty laundry in public. This time … Continue reading →