AltWeeklies Wire
Baseball: Where Have All the Black Guys Gone?new
Consider it fallout from the epidemic of black dads abandoning their families. Today, about 50 percent of black kids are raised in female single-parent homes, versus 16 percent of white kids. That trend wreaks unique havoc on baseball. As Indians ace C.C. Sabathia puts it: "It's a sport you play with your daddy."
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
06-13-2008 |
Sports
A Cleveland Cure for the Sneakerhead Cultnew
Welcome to Cleveland's Got Sole. Billed as a "shoe summit and showcase," it aims to court an obsessive cult: people who have taken their devotion to athletic shoes to scholarly heights.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
03-21-2008 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
The NFL's Forgotten Forefathersnew
Football players like Leroy Kelly are left crippled and broke -- and abandoned by their own union.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
01-18-2008 |
Sports
Madden Mannew
All he wants to be is a video-game hustler. Adulthood keeps getting in the way.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
12-04-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
