NFL

Jan 12, 2023

Here’s What You Missed

SZA’s SOS History Making Album On Dec. 9, Grammy Award-winning artist SZA released SOS, her sophomore album. The New York Times describes this album as  “a roundelay of infidelities and reunions, betrayals and connections, self-doubt and self-affirmation.” SOS debuted at No.1 on the 200 Billboard albums chart earning 318,000 equivalent album units. This is the…

Feb 14, 2019

Cardi B Boycott Hypocrisy Symptom of Larger Issue

Despite making public statements about her own personal opinion of how the NFL treated Kaepernick, Cardi B still participated in six different Super Bowl events, including a commercial for Pepsi and Amazon that aired during the Super Bowl and attending a Pre-Super Bowl event.

Jan 23, 2013

Rooney Rule in Ruins

Jenice Jamison |Technician Sports Editor   The underrepresentation of minorities in positions of power in the National Football League has come under scrutiny over the years, specifically in the 2000s. Sixty-seven percent of its players are African-American, but less than 10 percent of the direct leaders of these men, the head coaches, are from the…

Jan 23, 2013

Affirmative “Play Action”

Alfred Anderson | Staff Writer The Rooney rule requires that all NFL teams interview at least one minority candidate for head-coaching and senior football operations jobs. Named for Dan Rooney, the chairman of the league’s diversity committee, this regulation was established ten years ago in order to give minorities more leadership opportunities within the organization. Despite…