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As Muhammad Ali turns 70, here's a call to action to today's professional athletes: Use the sense of social justice shown by "The Greatest" to create an enduring legacy.

Hopefully, our anger over the child abuse allegations at Penn State will result in badly needed reforms. But we should productively channel our outrage about violence against women, too.

Satch Sanders should have been in the Hall of Fame as a player a long time ago. His story will now be retold to a new generation that needs -- but rarely does -- to see athletes who stand up for their communities.

College football in May is unusual enough. College football in May in Tanzania was a life-altering experience for the Drake University Bulldogs.

On the anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision, we remember legendary coach Dean Smith's role in helping to break Topeka's racial barriers even before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

The lessons that onetime BCS coach Fitz Hill learned from sports, from the military, in school and in life have since been put to use building entirely different and more successful programs at Arkansas Baptist College.

Higher graduation standards and restrictions on tournament payouts based on achievement would challenge schools to improve academics alongside athletics.

It's a non-conference game between teams that aren't in the national title picture, but history will be made when Mike London's Cavaliers play host to Ron English's Eagles on Saturday.

NBA stars such as DeSagana Diop, Luc Mbah a Moute and Hasheem Thabeet brought the joy of hoops to Senegal in the latest Basketball Without Borders trip to Africa.

One expert watched the Super Bowl ads in February and was dismayed by their lack of diversity and sensitivity. Three months of intensive research later, he's taking on Madison Avenue.

Darryl Williams died last week. His legacy will live on for the manner in which he turned the tragedy of a hate crime into a triumph of love and a life of activism.

It could not be more appropriate that the Eddie Robinson Museum opens in Grambling, La., right in the middle of Black History Month 2010.

Dennis Brutus fought apartheid in South Africa with sports, and was an inspiration and mentor, Richard Lapchick writes.

The hirings of Charlie Strong at Louisville and Mike London at Virginia represent great progress for college football.

With strong roots in the Latino community, action sports are a natural for Hispanics in L.A.

The Mark Sanchez sensation in New York just might shed some light on the Hispanics who came before him in pro football.