The United States women’s national basketball team ended FIBA World Cup group play on a relative high note. The United States women’s national basketball team took advantage of a reality Czech at the end of FIBA Women’s World Cup group play. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) Behind an early onslaught from Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart and complementary...
I wanted to laugh at Daejon Love — if that’s his real name — and his impersonation of a San Francisco 49ers wide receiver. I really did. I did laugh at a meme that was posted after Aaron Donald announced his return to the Los Angeles Rams. The top caption read “all this,” with Donald,...
Team USA survived a scare from Italy on Sunday evening, escaping its Group D showdown with a 55-52 win. The Americans were far from their best, but found resilience down the stretch after the Italians gave Team USA a solid test, using physicality to match talent and depth and keep the game close. The 55...
Cathy Engelbert is set to announce her retirement as WNBA commissioner. Who could succeed her in the W throne? While some of its prominent stars compete in the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup, the WNBA brought forth some intriguing news back stateside on Friday. (Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images) Cathy Engelbert, the league’s first...
On The Radar Hoops has been getting it done for a minute now. Founded in 2010 by former UAB football player Shun Williams, who has quickly taken the company to another level. It is undoubtedly the top independent event company in the Southeast Region because it is professionally ran and has countless former staffers who...
The NBA’s announcement Wednesday of severe penalties against the Los Angeles Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer for circumventing the salary cap reminded me of a defining league discussion of the past 15 years: player empowerment. Aside from LeBron James, former Clippers star Kawhi Leonard — a central figure the salary cap circumvention controversy — may...
The WNBA made yet another splash last week when they unveiled a brand new logo for the Finals, ending an eight-year run for the rather generic white text logo we’ve had since 2018. As the league approaches its 30th Finals, the new logo feels like a callback to some of the classic championship logos we’ve...
NEW YORK (AP) — Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died. She was 70. Dubbed America’s best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the boundaries of traditional blues-based jazz and worked effortlessly across folk, pop, R&B, country and beyond. At the heart of...
Listen to this story Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Darryl “Brotha D” Glover is dialing in from the mecca, or at least the holy land for sneakerheads. At the time of the call, Glover is in Beaverton, Oregon, for The Gathering, an annual event that unites some of the footwear industry’s most...
After months of investigation, deliberation and having to keep up with “Pablo Torre Finds Out”, the NBA finally decided to levy its punishment on Steve Ballmer, Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers organization for their salary cap circumvention and did so in historic fashion on Wednesday. The competitive sanctions imposed on the organization are...