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«A handful of athletes were willing to stand up for social issues. The price they paid is one reason that today's [black] athletes, including Tiger Woods, find it's safer to be more neutral.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
«The study shows that the vast majority of the most powerful people in college sports are still white.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
«The emphasis on Division I athletics director experience automatically puts minorities at a disadvantage. As a result, it is unclear whether the best possible candidates are being considered for top jobs. And we end up with people making decisions who don't reflect the athletes on the playing field or courts.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
«They're giving the impression that minorities are not capable of doing these jobs, and that's obviously not true.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
«It's not good that they don't have any minorities in the final pool because our research shows there are a lot of qualified minorities out there and available for these types of jobs, but it's slightly less bothersome because New Mexico has had such a good record when it comes to minority administrators.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
«We are seeing the early positive results of the initiative.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
«It provides a more accurate picture of the success student-athletes have in the classroom.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
«Women come from a culture where society has told them all these years that at whatever level you have to be better, you have to work harder, you have to outperform everyone else in order to break through all the gender barriers. In a basketball male culture, it's almost not cool to study. I think it's taken a lot of programs the NCAA has implemented to let those players and their coaches know, 'We've got to perform or we're going to lose scholarship.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
«Whether or not anything happened, just staging an event like that is a problem. They are representatives of their university and schools have an understood code of conduct, and these guys obviously thought they were going to get away with it and thought it wasn't a big deal. That is unacceptable.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
«The most encouraging thing is finally it's narrowing. This is something I've been writing about for so long, and it's been the most discouraging thing about athletics and academics -- that gap has been persistently wide, and has in some cases gotten wider.»
Author: Richard Lapchick
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