Richard Lapchick
Richard Lapchick
Richard E. Lapchick is a human rights activist, pioneer for racial equality, internationally recognized expert on sports issues, scholar and author. He is the son of Joe Lapchick, the original Celtic center who became a coach for St. John's and the New York Knicks. Lapchick is married to Ann Pasnak, his second wife, by whom he has one daughter, Emily. By his first wife, Sandy Miller, he has two children and four grandchildren...
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We are seeing the early positive results of the initiative.
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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.
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I am rarely surprised on issues of race and gender that the movement is so slow to get more people of color and women in those top positions.
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I think in general, where he has had the influence, baseball has done well. Where he hasn't had as much influence, at the team level, there's a lot of room for growth there.
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I think in general, where he has had the influence, baseball has done well.
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I can tell you I go on a lot of college campuses and I see a lot of very handsome-looking cars driven by a whole lot of athletes. I must admit it makes me wonder how are these guys driving these beautiful cars, and I don't know the answer to it.
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Had I guessed, I probably would have guessed the West would have the largest percentage based on the image, at least, of free-thinking universities. That's a pretty astonishing figure.
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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.
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I would make the analogy that if my son or daughter had legal problems, I would try to get the best representation possible, and that's the way universities view these firms.
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The study shows that the vast majority of the most powerful people in college sports are still white.
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His defense in this case, so quickly, seemed like an about-face, from taking a stand to a ridiculous statement a fan might make to another fan in a bar. It certainly didn't seem like he thought that one through.
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They're giving the impression that minorities are not capable of doing these jobs, and that's obviously not true.
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There's been a general improvement in the leagues over a period of time. I think the glaring gaps are at the college level at what are considered to be the top positions.
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There's been a general improvement in the leagues over a period of time.