November 2, 2007

Minority Hiring Still Lags; New Standards May Help

By BRAD WOLVERTON

Every year the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, at the University of Central Florida, issues a report on minority hiring in college sports. And every report says basically the same thing: White men continue to hold the vast majority of the most-powerful positions in intercollegiate athletics.

This year's report, released last week, echoes the findings from previous years — with one exception. For the first time, the biggest athletics departments are taking a

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