Andscape at the Olympics is an ongoing series exploring the Black athletes and culture around the 2024 Paris Games. PARIS — Seattle Storm guard, two-time WNBA champion and six-time WNBA All-Star Jewell Loyd is the latest player sharing insight into her life on and off the court through a video diary with Andscape during the...
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2024 WNBA All-Star game shatters viewership records
The 2024 WNBA All-Star game was the most watched ever in history. X Instagram Photo Credit: Nick Davis/ Ballislife This year’s All-Star game was one to remember. With record-breaking temperatures, the WNBA brought the heat to Phoenix. The 20th annual game drew 3.4 million viewers on ABC, making it the most-watched All-Star game in WNBA...
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Leroy Chalk came to France to revive his pro basketball career and never left
Black Americans in France is an ongoing series highlighting African Americans living abroad during the 2024 Paris Games. PARIS — Leroy Chalk was born in Big Sandy, Texas, and moved to France in 1977. Unlike many Black expatriates, Chalk did not set his eyes on Paris at an early age and did not leave the...
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‘She’s Broke … Now, She’s F—d Up’: Deion Sanders Jr. Exposes His Mom’s Shocking Financial Struggles Following Divorce from Coach Prime
Deion Sanders Jr., the oldest son of NFL legend and Colorado football coach Deion Sanders, turned some of his famous family’s private issues into public matters. According to Deion Jr., his mother, Carolyne Chambers, has spent much of the past quarter of a century in financial turmoil. Sanders Jr., who his father routinely refers to...
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Andscape at the Olympics: Talking USA Basketball, opening ceremony
Andscape at the Olympics is an ongoing series exploring the Black athletes and culture around the 2024 Paris Games. PARIS – Welcome to Andscape at the Olympics, a video series in which Andscape columnist William C. Rhoden, senior NBA writer Marc J. Spears and Andscape/ESPN commentator Ari Chambers will discuss the key topics about Black...
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How Victor Wembanyama’s unearthly size and still-growing feet made him Nike’s ‘Alien’
As soon as “Wemby” landed in conversation, Nike CEO and president John Donahoe beamed in fascination of basketball’s French-born, 7-foot-4 anomaly, Victor Wembanyama. The moment occurred in early April at Palais Brongniart, the former home of the Paris Stock Exchange. Donahoe reaffirmed Nike’s early investment in Wembanyama, who signed with the Swoosh years before his...
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Novelist Jake Lamar followed his Black writing role models to France
Black Americans in France is an ongoing series highlighting African Americans living abroad during the 2024 Paris Games. PARIS — “There are three types of Black folk living in Paris,” novelist Jake Lamar told me recently when we met at a cafe near his home in Montmartre. Lamar, 63, became part of a long rich...
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Washington Wizards guard Jordan Poole holds youth basketball clinic for Washington-area children
WASHINGTON — A child is waving his hands and shaking his head at Washington Wizards guard Jordan Poole while waiting in line. In the middle of Poole’s free basketball clinic at the team’s practice facility in southeast Washington, the very small child — barely 3 feet tall — is clearly talking trash to the former...
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Brittney Griner ‘blessed’ to return to Europe for Olympics
Andscape at the Olympics is an ongoing series exploring the Black athletes and culture around the 2024 Paris Games. Brittany Griner is back in Europe for the first time since being detained in Russia. But this time with USA Basketball’s women’s national team, she feels safe with her sisters and she is focused on a...
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Langston Galloway helps USA Basketball prepare for the Olympics
The experience of a lifetime for former NBA guard Langston Galloway as a member of USA Basketball’s Olympic team ends tonight in London. However, the memories of playing in exhibition games wearing a USA jersey and having handshakes with Vice President Kamala Harris and Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James will last a lifetime. “I’m...