By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Last week, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, became the latest $100 million man in the NFL, joining a list...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Unbelievable! That was my immediate response to the most talked about, scrutinized, celebrated, disrespected, revered and underappreciated professional athlete in...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist I’ve lived in Charlotte, N.C. with my family now for the past 15 years and owned season tickets to...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist I woke up this Tuesday morning to another bomb of sports news dropped on the NFL: “Four-time Super Bowl winning...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist The revolutionary and iconic stance of the great Muhammad Ali rang in my mind this morning as I woke up...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Nearly a decade ago, my wife and I took our two basketball fanatic sons to the local movie theaters...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist For the seventh year in a row, I drove out to the North Carolina Western Regional Basketball Championships to watch...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist The NBA trade deadline for the 2014-15 season expired on Thursday, February 19 at 3 p.m., and was followed by...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Each year in mid-February, the NBA All-Star Game plants itself in a different American city and takes over for a...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist For the past five weekends, my wife and I have sat through countless hours of indoor track and field meets,...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist It doesn’t matter that I am just now writing about Super Bowl XLIX—the championship crowning professional football game that more...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist At age 36, superstar Los Angeles Lakers basketball player, Kobe Bryant, is apparently at the end of his rope. On...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist African-American quarterbacks have come a long way in American football, not just to play and to start, but to win...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist In the middle of turmoil between police officers and unarmed African-Americans is the need for ex-pros Charles Barkley and Mike...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist In the middle of an American turmoil between the police force and African-American men, what I would like in 2014...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist I wrote a sports column earlier about domestic violence, triggered by the NFL case of Baltimore Ravens star running back...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Over the past weekend, I had a chance to a representative of the National Alliance of African-American Athletes (NAAAA) to...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist My admiration of Marion Barry Jr., who died Nov. 23, began long before I co-authored his autobiography, Mayor for Life:...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist During the month of July, the NBA Player’s Association elected Attorney Michele Roberts as their first African-American female executive director, putting...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist As an African-American entrepreneur who has made a living writing books under contracts, the ongoing contract disputes and negotiations between star...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist It seems like we’ve been hearing these classic, “Hi, Mom,” shot-outs from college and professional athletes forever. They look straight into...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist I was prepared this week to write an article on sports and fatherhood. Instead, I was struck by the Cleveland Cavaliers’...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson, published a revealing article a month ago on ThePlayersTribune.com in which he discussed being...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist As Major League Baseball rolls through the post-season toward crowning another World Series Champion, its biggest national news story was...
