Frankly, the school has too many hoops legends, both Black and white, to make itself a prisoner of the past by eternally clinging to Rupp.Moving into the future isn’t an option for the Rupp apologists, though. Kentucky State University teams participate as a member of the Division II Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.The school's mascot are the Thorobreds.

Wrong! Jefferson’s racism stretched from the plantation to education. This week, the Hoover grad put pen to paper and will be the newest slot receiver for West Virginia State University.Bonner held his National Letter of Intent signing ceremony alongside his parents with more friends and family watching.The state commit says his heart is in two places right now – he will play football and be a walk-on for basketball.Bonner is Hoover’s all-time boys leading scorer in program history, and finishes his high school career with more than 1,100 points.He is known for basketball and he says even he was shocked when coach John Pennington wanted him to join the Yellow Jackets football team.

While two Power 5 conferences have already postponed football and other sports, the Big 12 announced Wednesday that it is staying the course. !”Admittedly, no one really knows where this necessary national re-examination will end. After founding the University of Virginia, he decreed Blacks should never be allowed to attend.Even the country’s national anthem is a pro-slavery song written by Francis Scott Key, another slaver, who wanted to deport all free Blacks and keep slavery intact. Many Wildcats fans came for the professors like Christian Laettner stomping Aminu Timberlake’s chest in 1992.As always, the recycled arguments began with the utter denial that Rupp was a racist at all. I’m gonna have to get used to them in college.”Copyright 2020 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This week, the Hoover grad put pen to paper and will be the newest slot receiver for West Virginia State University. They argue Rupp’s name has come to stand for racial exclusivity and it would be advisable to move away from it. “Just the playbook that’s the difference between playing basketball and football is being able to learn the playbook and certain techniques that I’m not used to. Who didn’t back then?

It’s utter madness, according to many Big Blue Nation faithful.The African American and Africana Studies faculty didn’t actually center on Rupp in their cogent 10-point plan to make “an immediate impact on racial equity” at UK that included suggestions on faculty, staff, administrative leadership and joined the growing nationwide call for all undergraduates to take a required course on race and inequality. Jevon Carter is the winner of the 2020 Majerle Hustle Award, given annually to the Phoenix Suns player who “most personified the same hustle, grit and determination that Suns Ring of Honor member Dan Majerle displayed as a player,” according to the team website.

You’ll want to destroy Washington and Jefferson next!

Eventually you’ll be saying Jesus wasn’t white! To be sure, American racism and white supremacy run deep and wide.Like a good percentage of America’s “Founding Fathers,” Washington and Jefferson were both slavers – owning hundreds of slaves between the two of them. I almost forgot  ... Jesus WASN’T white. This makes sense for a school whose basketball team has been mostly populated by Black athletes for some time now, right? That doesn’t make him racist!”Some flail and claim Rupp was just fine because he recruited a handful and actually signed ONE black player at UK. The Battle for the Bluegrass. A group of professors in the University of Kentucky’s African American and Africana Studies Program has resurrected the debate over Adolph Rupp in the basketball-crazed Bluegrass State … Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, and indoor and outdoor track and field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field, softball and volleyball. Why are ‘you people’ being so sensitive? Kentucky State University sports news and features, including conference, nickname, location and official social media handles.

Bonner only had one year of high school football experience in his junior year.“I was very surprised considering I only got to play one year in high school, but after talking to him really liked the coaches.

The University of Kentucky was scheduled to play UCLA in men’s basketball in the CBS Sports Classic on Dec. 19. Washington’s “softening” views on slavery are largely mythical. We spoke with Executive Director of the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission, Bernie Dolan, once again on Thursday to get the latest on where things stand regarding high school sports in West Virginia. They’ve angrily drawn their line in the sand.

Some even went so far as to claim “The Baron of the Bluegrass” was actually a racial champion who fought the Southeastern Conference’s entrenched Klan-style bigotry for decades.

Sorry. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. The University of Kentucky took on Kentucky State University in a preseason exhibition men’s basketball game in Rupp Arena on Friday night.