“I don’t know who told you I like candles.” Jordan Poole tells me this with a wide smile after I tell him an unnamed source told me the Washington Wizards guard likes to make candles in his free time. Poole isn’t ashamed of his hobby, he just enjoys being mysterious, and this discovery cuts into...
Written by Sara Jane Gamelli X Instagram TikTok Twitch Two-time Pac-12 Player of the year, Cameron Brink officially declared for the WNBA Draft on Tuesday afternoon. Jineen Williams / Ballislife Cameron Brink’s left her legacy at Stanford University ,and she is set to make her mark in professional women’s basketball. Stanford University star Brink has...
PRETORIA, South Africa – There was a quick scene in the 2022 Disney movie Rise where a young Giannis Antetokounmpo was asked to pay a fee on a computer to use the internet at Amadou Café in Athens, Greece. Rise director Akin Omotoso told Basketball Africa League president Amadou Gallo Fall on March 8 that...
“Do you understand serendipity? Everything has been like this for me,” Wilfried Nancy says, leaning in as we sit at the Goat Tree café in Santa Barbara, California, on a sun-kissed day. The Columbus Crew head coach’s journey is punctuated with firsts. Of the eight Black coaches in MLS’ 29-year history, Nancy is the first...
Claude “Thunderbolt” Patterson, a Black pro wrestler who was blacklisted from one of the most well-known promotions in the 1970s in part due to deeply ingrained racism in the business, will be inducted into the WWE’s Hall of Fame next month. Patterson, 82, a burly, smooth-talking wrestler will join inductees Paul Heyman, Bull Nakano, the...
PRETORIA, South Africa – Two-time NBA All-Star Joakim Noah, NBA champion Ian Mahinmi and former NBA center Ruben Boumtje Boumtje were in the house when the Basketball Africa League’s 2024 season debuted March 9. The best basketball player of everyone at SunBet Arena and perhaps the entire continent of Africa on this day, however, was...
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Written by Sara Jane Gamelli X Instagram TikTok Twitch No. 5 USC Trojans defeat No.2 Stanford Cardinal 74-61, earning their second and final Pac-12 championship. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MARCH 10: The USC Trojans pose for the media after defeating the Stanford Cardinal 74-61 in the championship game of the Pac-12 Conference women’s basketball tournament...