Sports
NBA East and West Final games are set
Miami Heat returns back to The NBA East Final championship after coming from behind to beat the Pacers 4 to 2 in the semifinal round. They will defends their championship against the veteran and talented Boston Celtic team who downed the Philadelphia 76ers in a close game in dramatic fashion.
The Miami Heat returns back to The NBA East Final championship after coming from behind to beat the Pacers 4 to 2 in the semifinal round.
They will defend their championship against the veteran and talented Boston Celtic team who downed the Philadelphia 76ers in a close game in dramatic fashion.
While the Celtics are playing very good and scrapie physical basketball, they will have their hands full as they try to stop the much younger Miami Heat and the sensational Lebron James.
Lebron has absolutely went wild and is playing at a supernatural level.
Lebron must have been listening to Ervin Magic Johnson, one of greatest basketball player who ever played the game, to take over the game against Indiana Pacers to win that series 4 to 2. Magic knows what he is talking about!
NBA Eastern Conference Finals – Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat – Home Game 1
Monday, May 28 6:30p
at TD Garden, Boston, MA
The NBA West finals collide the Oklahoma City Thunder against the veterans San Antonio Spurs.
Can the veteran play of Tim Duncan and Tony Parker with their undefeated streak stop the younger Thunder team lead by the brilliant play of Kevin Durant?
The young Thunders are very hungry to win after after falling to last year’s NBA champions Dallas Maverick .
The 2012 NBA Western Conference Finals will get underway Sunday with Game 1 between the Spurs and Thunder. San Antonio holds home court advantage for the best-of-seven series.
Who do you think will win the NBA East and West finals?
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Black Excellence
Rajah Caruth is breaking barriers and driving change in Nascar
Rajah Caruth is breaking barriers and driving change in his field, from his humble beginnings on a simulator to racing against the crème de la crème in motorsport racing.
Rajah Caruth is breaking barriers and driving change in his field, from his humble beginnings on a simulator to racing against the crème de la crème in motorsport racing.
Making a name for himself in motorsport racing
“I’ll be on the other side of the fence someday.”
That was the caption of a 2017 Instagram post by avid NASCAR fan and Student-Athlete Rajah Caruth while at a Dover Motor Speedway event in 2017.
Caruth was 15 then and couldn’t get enough of race car driving. His passion for the sport started from a tender age, and his parents nurtured his interest by purchasing his first book about the sport: NASCAR: The Complete History. He was always engrossed in the book. His obsession was evident with signs of wear and tear on the book.
How Rajah Caruth got his start in motorsport racing
Unlike other race car drivers, Caruth got his start on a simulator and tested his skill against other racers on iRacing.com.
He said: “You need connections and
individuals that will get you to practice to get into race. I didn’t have any external funding or connections. But I had passion. I used my school laptop and a $80 wheel from Best Buy. I learned how to configure the computer’s hard drive to set up the program. The rest is history.”
Competing professionally
Fast forward from his days on the simulator, Caruth competes full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and part-time in the Xfinity Series. He is also a full-time student at Winston Salem State University, majoring in Motorsports Management.
But how does one go from virtual racing to competing professionally? Caruth explains:
“My passion for this sport drives me every day. It’s the first thing I think about in the.morning and the last thing I think about in the evening. I love it with every bit of my mind, body, and soul”.
Rajah Caruth also has a passion for fashion
Caruth loves to express his creativity through fashion outside the race.
Caruth is one of the drivers in NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity Development program and is the 8th Black Driver in NASCAR history to compete in a race.
In 2023, he raced full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for GMS Racing and Chevrolet, earning 4 top 10s and finishing 16th in the final standings. On March 24, Rajah Caruth became the third Black driver to win a NASCAR national series race in Las Vegas.
For further information, visit: https://www.rajahcaruth.com
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Sports
Gymnast Morgan Price becomes the first HBCU athlete to win national collegiate title
Gymnast Morgan Price is now the first athlete from a historically Black college or university team to win a national collegiate championship.
Gymnast Morgan Price is now the first athlete from a historically Black college or university team to win a national collegiate championship.
History making gymnast Morgan Price
The Fisk University student won the title with an all-around score of 39.225 – and became “the first USAG Collegiate National Champion from an HBCU! ” said USA Gymnastics.
She was among athletes from 12 college teams joining the competition at the USA Gymnastics’ 2024 Women’s Collegiate National Championships in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Making the switch to HBCU
Price joined the first HBCU intercollegiate team at Fisk in 2023 after graduating from high school. She initially signed with Arkansas before making the switch to attend Fisk, ESPN reported, after Coach Corrine Tarver asked her the simple question: “Do you want to make history?”
“I have learned that it is enjoyable to be around your culture. Since we are the first, we have a lot of eyes on us, and our support system is excellent. Seeing the fans and little girls cheering us on was super fun,” Price said in 2023.
Featured Photo by Ivan Samkov: https://www.pexels.com/photo/picture-of-gymnastic-rings-4164644/
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Social Justice
After more than 60 years, a championship HBCU men’s basketball team visits White House
An all-Black Tennessee A&I men’s basketball team won three back-to-back national championships at the height of the Jim Crow era, but were never recognized or invited to the White House. That changed on Friday.
This past weekend, the Tennessee A&I men’s basketball team, an HBCU squad that won a title more than 60 years ago, got a White House visit.
Tennessee A&I made history
The living members of the Tennessee A&I Tigers basketball team were honored by Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House.
“This is the greatest day of my life,” said George Finley, a player on the Tigers team, said to CBS News.
The Tennessee A&I Tigers men’s basketball team was the first HBCU team to win a national championship in 1957, and made history again by becoming the first college team to win three back-to-back national titles from 1957-1959.
“I thought this would never take place,” said Finley, who was part of the 1959 championship team, told the network. “[Winning] the championship was big, but it wasn’t as big as being here with [Vice President] Harris today.”
The challenges
In a time of segregation and the Jim Crow era, Black teams were often not recognized for their achievements but the team finally got their just due.
Harris hosted six members of the team in a meeting along with their family, friends, and those close to the group of former athletes. Henry Carlton, Robert Clark, Ron Hamilton, Ernie Jones, George Finley, and Dick Barnett joined Finley in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.
Tennessee A&I is now known as Tennessee State University.
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Miami Fan
May 27, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Miami and Oklahoma in the Championship game. Miami to win it all. Unless someone can convince me otherwise then that is just the way it is! Go Miami Go!