Native Americans
Belmont Stakes entrant Hot Rod Charlie takes a training run on the main track ahead of the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Hot Rod Charlie being run in Belmont in memory of Jake Panus

By Stephen Whyno Jun. 03, 2021 04:19 PM EDT

Syracuse University appoints diversity director for sports

By John Kekis Jul. 10, 2020 02:01 AM EDT
Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack has added a position to his department, bucking a trend toward athletic cuts during the coronavirus pandemic. ...

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2014, file photo, students play basketball at Little Singer Community School in Birdsprings, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. Basketball is woven in the fabric of Native American life. Now, during a global pandemic, the balls have all but stopped bouncing. Already hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, Native Americans are faced with life without basketball — or any other sport - for the forseeable future. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
As Native Americans fight virus, basketball takes a timeout

By John Marshall May. 23, 2020 12:11 PM EDT

In this Nov. 8, 2019 photo, Jashawn Pease, right, embraces his brother Jayton, as they celebrate their 74-39 victory in the All Nations Football Conference championship in Vermillion, S.D. Jashawn and Jayton Pease shed tears as the Crow Creek Chieftains won the first All Nations Conference championship, and then remembered their older brother _ one of too many American Indians to die by suicide on a reservation with the highest suicide rate in South Dakota. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves)
Football brings some peace to Sioux family after suicide

By Stephen Groves Nov. 16, 2019 11:23 AM EST

Protesters, including Marcy Hart of the White Earth Nation, march from Peavey Park to US Bank Stadium to protest the use of "Redskins" in the name of the Washington NFL football team, before Washington's game against the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, in Minneapolis. Protesters also had signs about the Kansas City Chiefs, the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves. (Richard Tsong-Taatrarii/Star Tribune via AP)
Hundreds protest Washington NFL team name in Minneapolis

Oct. 24, 2019 07:41 PM EDT

In this Dec. 18, 2018 photo, the Golden Moon Hotel and Casino, part of the Pearl River Resort is lit in Philadelphia, Miss. The sports book owned by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the first to open on tribal lands outside of Nevada following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year, a no-brainer business decision given the sports fans among its gambling clientele. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Indian casinos across US wary of betting on sports books

By Regina Garcia Cano Dec. 26, 2018 11:40 AM EST

Jerome Souers stepping down as Northern Arizona's coach

Nov. 19, 2018 05:42 PM EST
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Northern Arizona coach Jerome Souers is stepping down as head football coach after 21 years of leading the Lumberjacks. The...