Roland S. Martin's Blog, page 244

Rutgers Bball Coach Cusses Out, Physically Assaults Players

Source: Don Van Natta Jr. / ESPN NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In several dozen hours of video of Rutgers men’s basketball practices obtained by “Outside the Lines,” coach Mike Rice is seen hurling basketballs from close range at his players’ heads, legs and feet; shoving and grabbing his players; feigning punching them; kicking them; and screaming obscenities [...]

SALON: Will Ware Be Stuck With The Bill?

Source: David Sirota /  Salon Louisville sophomore Kevin Ware’s injury today in the Midwest Regional finals of the NCAA tournament will likely be remembered alongside Joe Theismann’s career-ender as one of the most tragically gruesome in sports history. But that’s not the only tragic and gruesome part of this episode, because unlike Theismann, who was working under a guaranteed contract, [...]

Georgia City Council Votes To Require Gun Ownership

Source: Kate Brumback / ABC News Backers of a newly adopted ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights. The ordinance in the city of Nelson — population 1,300 — was approved Monday night and goes into effect in 10 days. However, [...]

ROLAND S. MARTIN: After The Love Is Gone

by Roland S. Martin Special to TheShadowLeague.com I used to love baseball. No, not “like,” really, really love it. As a kid I was a star pitcher and first baseman for a Little League team called the Padres. My brother played in the older division for the Pirates. We used to play countless games of catch in [...]

Byron Pitts: ABC “Talks the Talk” On Diversity; Network Makes Official Its Poaching From CBS

Source: Richard Prince’s Journal-isms / Maynard Institute ABC News officially named CBS correspondent Byron Pitts as an anchor and its chief national correspondent Monday, moving Pitts to a network where “diversity is as important as it is to me” and leaving one, he told Journal-isms, that has lost half the number of black correspondents it [...]

ROLAND S. MARTIN: Don’t Allow Personal Drama To Interfere With Your Worship, Faith In God (VIDEO)

Over the past hour, we’ve heard some amazing stories. Some things will make you laugh, some make you cry, some that will leave you outraged. But the most important lesson for all of us is to understand the church is a place for us to come together to worship, for healing, for prayer, for salvation. [...]

DRAMA IN THE CHURCH: Pastors Panel Discussion On How To Deal With And Overcome Drama In The Church (VIDEO)

Imagine getting a phone call from a fellow pastor saying, “There’s a woman in my hotel room, and I don’t know how she got here.” What about dealing with the ego of congregation members who think they run the church, and you don’t? During this segment Roland Martin talks to three pastors who give us [...]

DRAMA IN THE CHURCH: Bishop T.D. Jakes Discusses How To Deal With Church Drama In The Media (VIDEO)

We’ve been focusing on real-life drama in the church. What often happens is when that drama spills over and gets out and is published in the newspaper, on the Internet, all of a sudden it becomes the focus of movies and television. Roland Martin talked to Bishop T.D. Jakes, though, about how he deals with [...]

DRAMA IN THE BLACK CHUCH: Pastor Ralph Douglas West On Conflicts Over Church Direction (VIDEO)

Drama in life can also play out in the church. In our last story, a conflict at Jericho City of Praise began with the death of the pastor. The rise of Houston’s Ralph Douglas West began with the stress of a birth and led to a congregation of nearly 20,000 people. The story of this [...]

DRAMA IN THE BLACK CHURCH: Pastor Joel Peebles Literally Cast Out Of Jericho City Of Praise (VIDEO)

In the church, we dedicate babies. We celebrate weddings and anniversaries. We also bid farewell to those who passed away. What happens when the pastor of the church, the spiritual leader, dies? That then puts the church in turmoil. Jericho City of Praise in Landover, Maryland, once one of the largest mega churches in America; [...]