It’s not quite as impactful or scandalous as Ime Udoka getting sidelined before Boston’s season last September, but a year later another Eastern Conference contender has lost an influential coach on the eve of the season. Milwaukee’s serendipitous reunion of longtime Portland Trail Blazers head coach/current Bucks… Read more…
When Jasmine “Jazz” Young escorted up-and-coming rapper Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace to the main YardFest stage at Howard University’s 1993 homecoming, it gave the then-senior marketing major a preview of her future career with Def Jam Recordings, a career that ultimately led the native New Yorker back to her alma mater. In the 30 years...
Tonight, The New York Liberty will matchup against the Las Vegas Aces at home for game 4 of the WNBA Finals. Up 2-1 in the series, the Las Vegas Aces have the opportunity to capture their second consecutive championship. The Liberty got their first finals win since 1999, and will look to even the series. Here you...
James Harden usually waits until the spring to vanish. Whenever you need him most, he’s gone. In a tense series game, you can always count on Harden bouncing when the going gets tough. Read more…
Tennessee State University football coach Eddie George has been a model of football consistency – and intensity – in Nashville, Tennessee, for more than a quarter century. On Saturday, when he questioned TSU fans’ love of football in a 90-second, angst-filled sermon, I interpreted his message in four words: Keep that same energy. “I’m hoping...
The Las Vegas Aces currently hold a 2-1 series lead over the New York Liberty. With game four on Wednesday, the Aces will be without two starters due to foot injuries. Written and edited by Sara Jane Gamelli Twitter Instagram TikTok Breaking: Las Vegas Aces Kiah Stokes and Chelsea Gray will be out for Game...
Utah Jazz fans, your team lost to the Chicago Bulls 25 years ago. Friends conversed about Michael Jordan’s game-winning shot in the 1998 Finals on AIM, and Karl Malone teamed up with Diamond Dallas Page to take on Dennis Rodman and Hollywood Hogan at WCW’s Bash at the Beach a month later. Let the past...
Are 3D mammograms better than standard 2D imaging for catching advanced cancers? A clinical trial is recruiting thousands of volunteers — including a large number of Black women who face disparities in breast cancer death rates — to try to find out. People like Carole Stovall, a psychologist in Washington, have signed up for the study to...
A great team is only as strong as its weakest link. At least that’s the consensus among every motivational coach I’ve ever heard. But for the sake of this space, it’s true for NBA contenders as well. I’ll examine the weak spots in some of the most iron-clad lineups in the NBA entering the 2023...
Yale University alumnus Calvin Hill and Morgan State University alumnus Mark Washington first met as college football rivals in the 1960s when Baltimore native Hill worked out at Morgan State’s Hughes Memorial Stadium. They later bonded as NFL teammates on the Dallas Cowboys and have maintained a lifetime friendship rooted in respect for their respective...