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When Nick Saban, the legendary University of Alabama football coach, announced his retirement at age 72 in January 2024, various analysts and colleagues depicted his departure as the end of an “epic era” of coaching. “WOW! College football just lost the GOAT to retirement,” the outspoken University of Colorado coach, Deion Sanders, stated on X. Sanders went on to lament how college football has changed so much that it “chased the GOAT away.” Without a doubt, Saban’s college coach ing record of 297 wins, 71 losses and 1 tie – not to mention seven national championships – puts him in an elite group of college coach es. However, as the author of a book on the racially exploitative nature of college sports, I don’t see Saban as having been “chased away.” Rather, I see Saban’s retirement as his stepping away from an evolving college sports system that is increasingly empowering athletes in ways that he vocally condemned. Saban was no champion for college athletes’ ri

More time has been tacked onto an eight-year prison sentence for a New York woman who fatally shoved an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach NEW YORK -- A New York judge sentence d a woman who pleaded guilty to fatally shoving an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach onto a Manhattan sidewalk to six months more in prison than the eight years that had been previously reached in a plea deal. During Friday's sentencing of Lauren Pazienza for manslaughter, Manhattan state Supreme Court Judge Felicia Mennin said she was unconvinced that the 28-year-old Long Island woman took responsibility for her actions on March 10, 2022, when she pushed the vocal teacher, Barbara Maier Gustern, to the ground. Gustern, whose students included “Blondie” singer Debbie Harry, lay bleeding on a sidewalk. She died five days later. Pazienza pleaded guilty on Aug. 23. She could have been sentenced to 25 years had she been convicted during a trial. Pazienza, a former event planner originally from Long Island,