Hip Hop at 50 is our yearlong look at the people, sound, art, and impact of hip-hop culture on the world. Hockey jerseys, a ’90s hip-hop fashion trend, have returned, with their vibrant colors framing logos from lightning flashes and bears to leaves and sharks. Some of the biggest names in music such as Snoop...
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KING OF THE COURT | 🏀 MALCOLM VS SKOOB VS HOODIE QEL 🏀
ballislife King of the Court | Malcolm vs Skoob vs Hoodie Qel Uncle Skoob, Malcom Stevenson and Hoodie Qel are facing off THIS Wednesday at 6 PM PST live ONLY on Caffeine.TV at https://bit.ly/3q1dFtj Catch up on weeks 1 through 14 on Caffeine.tv @ https://caf.tv/ballislife Who’s coming out on top with that big check? The...
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‘It couldn’t make me happier’: Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts have Doug Williams excited for a Black QB Super Bowl For the first time, two Black quarterbacks will play in the NFL’s biggest game
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The caller couldn’t even get in a question late Sunday night before Doug Williams made his feelings clear – both loudly and repeatedly. The Kansas City Chiefs had just completed a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship Game, which followed the Philadelphia Eagles’ 31-7 dismantling of the...
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Mahomes and Hurts’ Black Quarterback Super Bowl showdown has been decades in the making
With all due respect to the Salt Lake City NBA All-Star Weekend, Glendale, Arizona is 2023’s “Black Super Bowl.” A week before NBA superstars and celebs descend on Utah, Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes will take the field as the first pair of black quarterbacks to start against one another in a Super Bowl. Read...
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Joel Embiid wants all of Nikola Jokić’s smoke
Following a double OT loss to the lowly Houston Rockets on Dec. 5, the Philadelphia 76ers were a .500 ball club. Doc Rivers, Joel Embiid, and James Harden all had that sad, whiny look on their faces as if you just told a 3-year-old no. Skip ahead nearly two months and 24 games, and they’re...
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‘She was a force of nature’: Janet Hill remembered as a leading voice, level-headed and a loving mother Hill’s memorial in Washington drew Hillary Clinton, Chris Webber, Andrew Young among others to honor her legacy
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...
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Player and team activism may be lost on you, but you’re not everyone
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....
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KING OF THE COURT | 🏀 KAM VS J SMOOVE VS HEZI GOD | 1V1 EVENT 🏀
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?...
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In ‘Stand’ documentary, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf wants to leave ‘something for them to think about’ Former NBA guard reveals how his life spiraled downward after his national anthem protest in 1996
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...
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Patrick Mahomes is on an all-time great trajectory … but the Bengals have the Chiefs’ number Can Kansas City’s MVP favorite end a three-game losing streak to Cincinnati and Joe Burrow?
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...