Sports
NFC And AFC Championship Week
This is not the Super Bowl! This is Championship week and last time I checked, only one of those two quarterbacks will be in this year’s big game
Brady versus Manning…. Brady-Manning XVII. This is not the Super Bowl! This is championship week and last time I checked, only one of those two quarterbacks will be in this year’s big game. However, it seems as though the world of football failed to realize that the top two voted Pro Bowl Quarterbacks, one who led their team to the best overall record and the other who has the top quarterback rating overall, are not named Brady or Manning, but instead are named Cam Newton (Carolina Panthers) and Carson Palmer (Arizona Cardinals). I would have to say that the NFC is the real Super Bowl and not what the AFC Championship game and everything that it entails is being made out to be.
Possibly being Peyton Manning’s final time lining up behind center and the last time that Tom Brady and Manning will step on the field to face each other and no one will diminish the meaning of what this means to the game, which is the reason it is being highly talked about as much as it is. However, the game that everyone should be focused on and really talking about is the game between the Carolina Panthers and the Arizona Cardinals because the winner of this match up, in my opinion, will be your Super Bowl 50 Champions.
Now, you have to appreciate the seasons that the Carolina Panthers and the Arizona Cardinals have had. On one hand, the Panthers have been dabbing their way through the regular season by scoring points, shutting down opposing offences and passing out souvenir footballs along the way all while being led by Cam Newton, who has probably had the best year of his career and does not seem to be showing any signs of being satisfied with just getting this far. While on the other hand, the Cardinals, being led by Carson Palmer and a group of veterans, have done the same as what the Panthers have seemed to accomplish by scoring points and shutting down opposing offences but with more of a conservative approach.
Not to take anything away from Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, let’s give credit where credit is due, just like all of the fans have done, and take into consideration that the game that has the most significance is the game that decides the fate of Cam Newton and Carson Palmer. Who will be the quarterback to lead their team to this year’s Super Bowl 50? The quarterback whose alter ego is that of a superhero, Superman, who has been passing out footballs to fans in the stands after every scoring touchdown while dancing and having fun in Dabbling fashion, which has transcended throughout the entire team of the Carolina Panthers. Or will it be the quarterback with the league’s best passer rating, who has seemed to resurrect his career and having, arguably, the best season of his career all while doing so completely opposite of his opposition, conservatively?
Besides Super Bowl 50 at stake and, in my opinion, the Super Bowl 50 Champion, this NFC Championship game will also be showcasing who I believe will be the NFL Most Valuable Player, Cam Newton or Carson Palmer. What more could you ask for or want in a Championship game, besides wishing it was on the bigger stage and actually be Super Bowl 50. Get ready for Pre-Super Bowl fireworks by these two explosive, innovative offences or a fight amongst two of the top defences!
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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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