Adam Lindner | Staff Writer Sept. 5, 2019 Per a 2016 article by The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears, more than 74% of players on NBA rosters were black men during the 2015-16 season. Roughly 69 years ago, however, the league’s racial barrier had yet to be broken. So, when Chuck Cooper — a Duquesne basketball star from 1946-1950 — was drafted in the second round … Continue reading Duquesne’s Chuck Cooper headed to Hall of Fame
Raymond Arke | Editor-in-Chief 10/23/18 Duquesne University, donors and public officials celebrated the announcement of the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse, set to replace the existing A.J. Palumbo Center, at a special event on Oct. 23. The extensive renovations of the arena will begin in March 2019. The new Fieldhouse will feature a radically different and modernized facade, new concession and team shop areas, premium seating options, … Continue reading Duquesne announces “transformation” of Palumbo Center into the new UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse
Ollie Gratzinger | Features Editor 11/09/2017 “Before LeBron James, before Stephen Curry, there was Chuck Cooper.” Spoken by Chuck Cooper III, President and CEO of the Chuck Cooper Foundation and son of the NBA legend, these words are sure to resonate with any basketball fan or sports history buff here at Duquesne. When the Boston Celtics chose Pittsburgh native Charles “Chuck” Cooper as the 14th … Continue reading First African American NBA draftee attended Duquesne
By Andrew Holman | The Duquesne Duke One hundred years of Duquesne basketball tradition all started back on Jan. 9, 1914 when the Dukes defeated Bethany College 43-28, recording their first win in program history. The score shows that a lot has changed since the Red & Blue’s first tipoff. Back before the City Game, before the existence of the Atlantic 10 Conference or the … Continue reading Storied history began with charismatic coaches
By Julian Routh | Editor-In-Chief In newspapers all over the country on April 26, 1950, a small footnote was buried in the sports section beneath stories of New York Giants baseball, quarterly boxing revenue and the 76th Kentucky Derby. The footnote read, in most instances, “First Black Player Drafted to NBA,” with a few sentences underneath about a 6-foot-5, 200-pound African American man with agile … Continue reading From the depths of prejudice, Cooper rose above
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