Issues specific to African-American and other minority athletes are not a priority.

That, he implied, was why there were higher percentages of minority athletes in football and basketball than in other sports at Maine.

That judgment is likely to be questioned by those who believe appearances by minority athletes and musicians is a positive development.

Most alarming is the effect the information gap has on minority athletes.

High schools, coaches, and minority athletes rose to the challenge of higher standards.

In time, a sympathetic relationship also developed between minority athletes and minority sportswriters working for predominantly white newspapers.

One of the tradeoffs may be that it means restricted access to minority athletes.

This time, the proposal has the support of the committee on financial aid and amateurism, which emphasized a need for added opportunities for minority athletes.

This remains a significant psychological hurdle for minority athletes to clear.

Among the side effects, Kannerstein said, is the inadvertent exclusion of many inner-city and minority athletes.