on Saturday on her way to a race on Magic Million

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The NBA remains the best among its professional sports peers when it comes diversity hiring.According to the report released Thursday by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, the NBA received an A-plus for the second year in a row for racial hiring and dropped to a B in gender hiring practices. The leagues overall grade of A was its eighth in row as the NBA scored higher than other professional sports league in all three categories.Reports are also issued on the NFL, MLB, MLS, WNBA and college sports.The NBA has been the leaders in pretty much both areas since weve been doing the report card and they are still ahead of everybody even in gender, said Richard Lapchick, who authors the Racial and Gender Report Card released by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. The NFL had a C-plus last year and MLB had a C-plus. MLS is the only one close with a B but they only had 80.1 points as opposed to the 83.7 the NBA has got. College sport was the worst of all with 78.8 points with a C-plus.Even in maintaining the best stands, the NBA did some dips in diversity hiring practices with the biggest coming in gender hiring. The NBA went from a B-plus grade in gender hiring in 2015 to a B this year with drops coming at the team levels and senior leadership positions. In 2015, the NBA scored 88 points but this year only received 83.7 points on the report card.Women comprised 39.6 percent of all professionals in the NBA league offices in this past season, which was slightly down from 40.9 percent in 2015. But women continued to hold just a small percentage of team vice president positions, comprising just 21.5 percent of the team vice president titles. Still, there were five women who served as team presidents/CEO during the 2015-16 season, which is the highest of any mens professional sport.The fact there was sort of slippage with the NBA, not only was the grade low but there was actually a decline in the grade is definitely an area of concern, Lapchick said of the overall dip in gender hiring. I think its particularly an area of concern at the team level and senior leadership positions.The NBA, which is the first sports league to have two minorities as majority owners, also had small losses in the number of head coaches and general managers of color this year. The number of general managers went from six in 2014-15 to just four this past season. 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Trainer Kelly Schweida is noted for taking a low-key attitude to his horses but he is upbeat about Miss Cover Girl as she heads to Doomben for her second start since her Group One Tatts Tiara win.The mare runs in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes (1350m) on Saturday on her way to a race on Magic Millions day, January 14.There are three races for her on that day, the Magic Millions Cup, the fillies and mares race at the QTIS race. They are all worth $1 million, Schweida said.But first she will be out to reverse her luck after her first run of the campaign in the Group Three George Moore Stakes at her last start.Damian Browne waited for an inside run which was fair enough because the fields have been opening up at Eagle Farm, Schweida said.As it turned out she had no luck in the straight and finished fourth. But in hindsight I suppose Damian could have got going early to get clear.dddddddddddd.Miss Cover Girl has banked $812,000 prize money and Saturdays first purse would take her to $907,000.She is already a valuable broodmare but if she can win a couple more stakes or feature races she could well be worth over $1 million as a mum, Schweida said.Schweida has elected to bypass Saturdays Calaway Gal Stakes with Magic Millions 2YO Classic hopeful Cellargirl.Cellargirl won her only start at Eagle Farm last month and is well in the Classic markets at $17.She is only a light filly and if I ran her on Saturday she would need another start before the Millions, Schweida said.This way I can run her on Saturday week and then go straight into the big one. ' ' '