WASHINGTON — As Grant Hill stepped to the podium in the main concert hall at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he thought about all the great moments he experienced in the facility where his mother, Janet Hill, had served on the board of trustees. “She absolutely loved this place,” Grant Hill...
A week ago tonight I sat here and wrote about why I didn’t want to touch on the Memphis Grizzlies getting into a verbal altercation with Shannon Sharpe during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The point of that article was to illustrate why it’s important to stay current on issues that actually matter....
ballislife King of the Court | Kam vs J Smoove vs Nas | 1v1 Event Jay Smoove, Hezi God and Kamsosmoove are facing off Saturday at 6 PM PST live ONLY on Caffeine at https://bit.ly/3q1dFtj Catch up on weeks 1 through 13 on Caffeine.tv @ https://caf.tv/ballislife Who’s coming out on top with that big check?...
Does the NBA owe Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf an apology? “I can care less about the apology,” Abdul-Rauf recently told Andscape. “That’s like government apologizing for the 300 and something years of unpaid labor and not paying taxes for slavery. And these people don’t want their apology. Apologies are only as good as what you back it...
At only 24, Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs became the youngest quarterback in NFL history to have a Super Bowl title, a Super Bowl MVP award and a league MVP award. Now 27, the superstar signal-caller is expected to win the league MVP award for a second time after leading the NFL in...
Choosing between women’s and men’s sports is a false choice. If you’re a certain blogger for Glenn Beck’s conservative Blaze media, revisionist history can be a comfort zone that vilifies feminism in sports as your woke sports boogeyman, but makes you look like a headass instead. Jason Whitlock’s resentment-driven… Read more…
There’s a bright spot out West amid the dim landscape of diversity in college sports leadership. The West Coast Conference has an initiative called the Russell Rule, which requires schools to interview candidates from underrepresented groups when hiring top coaches and athletic administrators. It’s named after the late Bill Russell, who starred at the WCC’s...
If you aren’t familiar with @FootyScran on Twitter, and judging by their follower count you probably are, you should correct that. It’s a Twitter feed that documents some of the horrors, and the rare joys, that pass as food at various soccer stadiums around the globe. If you think you know what the English define...
For sports fans who believe that NBA basketball has been “too playground” since Larry Bird retired in 1992, this year’s All-Star game is doing the opposite of reaching out to those fans. Read more…
Longtime NFL safety Rodney McLeod explains upfront that he’s not claiming to be clairvoyant about the rise of star Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts. McLeod always takes heed to temper his public comments about Hurts so as not to put more pressure on the young passer’s shoulders. After meeting Hurts, however, McLeod became convinced that...