Author: Mike Freeman, USA TODAY

There are many times we don’t think of NFL players as human beings. The injury to Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin should change that forever.

Pelé was a hero to the world and the best soccer player of all time. He was also something else: an inspiration to Black soccer players in America.

Brittney Griner is the biggest sports story of the year and she also represents a continuing problem: the pay disparity between WNBA and NBA players.

Brittney Griner has started her nine-year prison sentence at a penal colony in Mordovia. We shouldn’t forget her as she disappears into that hellhole.

The Indianapolis Colts hired former player Jeff Saturday as interim head coach. In doing so, the team passed over far more qualified Black candidates.

There is a strain of antisemitism that runs through the Black community. We’ve seen it from Black athletes like Kyrie Irving, and it has to stop.

In the end, this ugly Kanye story is about one thing: hate. It’s also about how a Black man, of all people, should know better than to traffic in it.

The Miami Dolphins’ mishandling of Tua Tagovailoa’s head injury harkens back to when NFL teams and players downplayed the impact of concussions.

An ugly moment at a Duke-BYU volleyball game featured a number of people who failed, but also a hero in Blue Devils player Rachel Richardson.

Serena Williams isn’t just a hero to many in the Black community. African Americans watched Williams fight racism and see themselves in her.