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...that Coleman, now 22, is an exception to the rule is a vast understatement. Few black kids have made the same choices as him. Even fewer face this decision in the first place, since most African-American kids ignore hockey altogether. "I just never thought about playing that sport," says DeQuanta Higgins, 14, after a game of pickup hoops with his brother and cousins in Atlanta. "It's just fun playing basketball...
...players on NHL rosters today, only 12 are black - a level that has remained flat over the last decade. "Sport as an institution doesn't just fall out of the sky," says Earl Smith, a Wake Forest University sociologist who wrote about blacks in hockey in his 2007 book Race, Sport and the American Dream. "It has to be embedded in the community, in the society the sport is trying to reach. For the NHL, it's a losing proposition...
...even if it's true that more blacks have taken up hockey, the sport still lacks a fan base in urban areas. And luring more blacks to hockey might be an impossible task. The sport hasn't been particularly kind to blacks. The game is littered with racial hostilities toward black players, from both fans and opposing players. While the vitriol isn't as vicious as it was in O'Ree's day, Coleman has heard the n-word on the ice; just five years ago, some slob threw a banana at ex-Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Kevin Weekes during...
...Bill Clinton said he hoped the rhetoric will "mellow out," though he understands that "we're going to have a few arguments - this is a contact sport. Sometimes when you have a family feud it's harder than when you have a feud with someone in a different clan because you have to dig deeper to find where the difference...
...annual profits, has handed out $350 million over the last decade to more than 1,500 good causes across the northeast. From its $2 million endowment of the gleaming Sage Gateshead concert hall, to the $300,000 it funneled into help for local prostitutes, "almost anything that happens in sport, in the arts, the community, charities," says James Ramsbotham, chief executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce, "they are at the heart...