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Jackie Robinson’s crossing of the Rubicon

Posted 1 month, 1 day ago.

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Sometimes it is possible to change everything simply by showing up. A person can symbolically right generations of wrongs by just walking through an open door. Continue Reading

Tags: Branch Rickey Brown v. Board of Education Dodgers Jackie Robinson Jesse Owens Major League Baseball

Who we’re rooting for on Super Tuesday

Posted 2 months, 11 days ago.

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We at the Constitution Daily sports desk feel it is our duty as educators, citizens, and sports fans to ensure that voters can cast an informed vote in this campaign. As such, we have assembled this Sports Fans’ Guide to the Republican Primary. Continue Reading

Tags: Mitt Romney NASCAR Newt Gingrich Rick Santorum Ron Paul Super Tuesday

A look back at a fighter’s unforgivable blackness

Posted 2 months, 17 days ago.

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Arguably no athlete in American history has engendered the extremes in emotions that Jack Johnson–“The Galveston Giant”–created. He was either loved or reviled, and the choice was mainly determined by the shade of one’s skin. Continue Reading

Tags: Jack Johnson Jim Jeffries John McCain Mann Act Seaborn Roddenberry

The athletic dream team you’ve never heard of

Posted 2 months, 22 days ago.

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On June 4, 1967, a cadre of America’s most outstanding African American athletes gathered in the offices of the Black Economic Union in Cleveland, Ohio. Although the meeting took place in the offices of an organization dedicated to increasing economic opportunities, money was not on the agenda. Continue Reading

Tags: Bill Russell Bobby Mitchell Jim Brown Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Muhammad Ali

Pitchers, catchers…and signers report: a Founding Fathers baseball dream team

Posted 2 months, 25 days ago.

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If the framers of the Constitution were a baseball team, who would they be and what position would they play? Continue Reading

Tags: Alexander Hamilton Benjamin Franklin George Mason George Washington Gouvernor Morris James Madison James Wilson John Dickinson Jonathan Dayton Major League Baseball Roger Sherman

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