Why stipends are ideal solution for student athletes…
October 16, 2010 by Staff
Filed under News, Sports, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) The biggest sports story of the week has been Sports Illustrated’s piece on Josh Luchs, the agent who admitted to paying more than 30 NCAA football players money from 1990-1996. Every reporter, analyst, talking head and person with a forum has weighed in. Paying players is a major recruiting violation. It’s also a […]
Single-Minded: On Turning the Big 3-0…
October 16, 2010 by Staff
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Tweet (Akiit.com) What’s the big deal, anyway? In two weeks I’ll be 30. The big three-oh. The end of my 20s. The dirtiest of birthdays. But I can’t for the life figure out why this is such a big deal. Back in December, when The Washington Post profiled me, my sarcasm didn’t quite translate perfectly […]
Has Farrakhan’s stock fallen in the black community?
October 16, 2010 by Staff
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Tweet (Akiit.com) It was vintage Louis Farrakhan. The controversial Nation of Islam leader delivered a free-wheeling, take no prisoners speech at the sold out Atlanta Civic Center speech on June 26 to a wildly cheering audience. He knocked Jews for allegedly controlling the entertainment industry, and lambasted black athletes and entertainers as slaves and racial […]
T.I. headed back to prison for 11 months…
October 16, 2010 by Staff
Filed under Entertainment, News, Weekly Columns
Tweet (Akiit.com) ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge revoked rapper T.I.’s probation Friday and ordered him back to prison for 11 months, according to a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office. The Atlanta native, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., was in federal court here following his arrest last month in Los Angeles on […]