{"id":144,"date":"2020-05-06T15:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2025-03-22T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:23:36","slug":"sports","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The following are Analyses, Commentaries, Dialogues, Expos\u00e9s<\/strong>, <strong>and Reports on Sports from a Black economics perspective. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Analytical Essay:  <a href=\"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/BESports\/finhlt6032125.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Headline Thoughts No. 6: Racism, MM, and IBMs&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>  (March 21, 2025)  [FINHLT6032125.pdf]  It is an excavation of the annual March Madness (MM) ritual that reveals our blindness to its embedded Racism, and it exposes an ongoing, devastating, and burgeoning phenomenon\u2014the production of Irrelevant Black Males (IBMs).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Expos\u00e9<\/strong>:  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"&quot;Lamar Jackson's Worth&quot; (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.BlackEconomics.org\/BELit\/ljworth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lamar Jackson&#8217;s Worth&#8221;<\/a>  (September 2, 2022)  (636 KB)  [LJWORTH.pdf]  Exposes the racially based exploitative and discriminatory practices of professional football toward Black American quarterbacks using a detailed and comprehensive statistical analysis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Report:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BlackEconomics.org\/BESports\/bqbauep.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"&quot;Black NFL Quarterbacks' Attrition and Unequal Pay&quot; (opens in a new tab)\">&#8220;Black NFL Quarterbacks&#8217; Attrition and Unequal Pay&#8221;<\/a>  (May 5, 2020)  (407 KB)  [BQBAUEP.pdf]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dialogue:  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"&quot;Dialogue on Professional Sports and Black Economics with Mr. Rob Robinson&quot; (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.BlackEconomics.org\/BESports\/dopsbe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dialogue on Professional Sports and Black Economics with Mr. Rob Robinson&#8221;<\/a>  (May 3, 2020)  (310 KB)  [DOPSBE.pdf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are Analyses, Commentaries, Dialogues, Expos\u00e9s, and Reports on Sports from a Black economics perspective. Analytical Essay: &#8220;Headline Thoughts No. 6: Racism, MM, and IBMs&#8221; (March 21, 2025) [FINHLT6032125.pdf] It is an excavation of the annual March Madness (MM) ritual that reveals our blindness to its embedded Racism, and it exposes an ongoing, devastating, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/sports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sports&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackeconomics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}