You may have thought Cuba Gooding, Jr.’s public profile took a nosedive after “Jerry Maguire,” but you’d be only partly correct. See, it’s pretty typical…
The last time I saw hockey and hip-hop mixed together 50 Cent was rapping from the penalty box in an Onyx video. But leave it to Drake to bring the two entities back together. What Do Black Folks Do In Canada? The Toronto native performed at the 2012 NHL All-Star game bringing the total of […]
Dustin Byfuglien looks around the Atlanta Thrashers locker room and sees something unusual. A bunch of guys who look like him. “The way we look at it, we’re not any different than any other team. It’s just the color of our skin that makes us different,” Atlanta’s all-star defenseman said. “But we do joke around […]
On January 18, 1958 the first African American played for the NHL. Read the story of Willie O'Ree here.
Atlanta Thrashers rookie Evander Kane was selected fourth overall in the NHL Entry draft, and at only 18 years of age, he is one of the youngest players on the Thrashers roster. Named after Atlanta boxing legend Evander Holyfield, it’s only right that Kane launches his career in Atlanta. The Versus network is chronicling Kane’s rookie season on their Web site in a video titled “Rookie Diaries: Evander Kane!”
