In college basketball, the scene of an African-American coach cutting down nets to celebrate a national title is nothing new.

The National Football League has urged teams for years to hire more minority head coaches.

The National Basketball Association set a league record for most head coaches of color in the past year, helping it earn high grades in an annual diversity report.

An annual study reviewing diversity hiring for Major League Baseball reported a record low of Black players on opening day rosters for the second straight year.

A diversity study finds women are still significantly underrepresented in leadership positions at the Football Subdivision level of college athletics.

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport has announced that the WNBA received an A for its overall racial and gender practices for 2022.

An annual diversity study has found the NFL posted significant gains in hiring women for positions in coaching, front offices and league headquarters.

Dusty Baker is deeply disturbed that there project to be no U.S.-born Black players in this year's World Series.

No U.S.-born Black players are projected to be on World Series rosters when the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros meet this week.

Two of the NBA’s most significant dynasties emerged in the second decade of the 2000s.

MIAMI – Kim Ng started her Major League Baseball career as an intern, and three decades later she's still on the rise while shattering ceilings. Ng became the majors' highest-ranking woman in baseball operations when she was hired Friday as general manager of the Miami Marlins. “After decades of determination, it is the honor of my career to lead the Miami Marlins,” Ng said in a statement. “We look forward to Kim bringing a wealth of knowledge and championship-level experience to the Miami Marlins,” Jeter said in a statement. “All of us at Major League Baseball are thrilled for Kim and the opportunity she has earned with the Marlins,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.

ORLANDO, Fla. Its been an exciting few months inside The Bubble as the NBA restarted its season, but winning a championship hasnt been the only focus for the players. Social injustice, inequality and police brutality have been discussed ever since the players started to arrive at Disney, and especially when every team boycotted a playoff game over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconson. Dr. Richard Lapchick, the chair of the University of Central Floridas DeVos Sport Business Management, told anchor Justin Warmoth on The Weekly on ClickOrlando.com that last weeks protest could be the most important social justice statement by sports in half a century. To have an entire team, then a league and its players association decide that they were going to stop the play to emphasize the importance of the moment was nothing less than historic, Lapchick said. It reminded me of Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the victory stand in Mexico City in 1968 and Mohammed Alis refusal to go to Vietnam.Watch the full interview Sunday at 7:30 a.m. on News 6.

ORLANDO, Fla. – One day after several NBA teams boycotted their games while fighting for racial equality, a person with knowledge of the situation said NBA players decided on Thursday that they want to continue the season. Also on Thursday, several referees led marches on Disney’s campus, where the NBA is currently holding games, in support of the players’ fight for justice. The boycotts come amid nationwide protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. “We have to look at racism every day because it’s not going to go away. He said that reason and others are why he calls the NBA the most progressive sports league in the country.