BALTIMORE – In her first season leading the women’s basketball program at her alma mater, Winston-Salem State University head coach Tierra Terry delivered a moment over half a century in the making for the devoted “Ramily” fan base. Winston-Salem State (25-3 overall, 14-2 CIAA) capped its historic season by winning the program’s first Central Intercollegiate...
It’s getting increasingly difficult to deny the Rookie of the Year case for Kon Knueppel after his latest accomplishment. Leave it to a Charlotte Hornet to steal some buzz. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images) Kon Knueppel further cemented his place in Queen City royalty on Thursday night: with the sixth of eight 3-pointers in this...
Floyd Mayweather Jr., by boxing standards, had the perfect swan song. Fifty fights. Fifty wins. Zero losses. And, most importantly to Mayweather, more money than anyone in the sport had ever made. When the boxing legend retired in 2017 following his Las Vegas spectacle of a match with Conor McGregor, a return for Mayweather was...
At 22 years old, it’s not surprising that Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren is lacking patience on the basketball court. The NBA All-Star isn’t expecting the Pistons to have any more growing pains. In fact, he believes the Eastern Conference leaders are ready to win a title now. “I appreciate where we are at in...
Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokić is averaging 28.8 points, 12.5 rebounds, and 10.5 assists per game. Victor Wembanyama is putting up 24.0 points, 11.2 rebounds, and nearly three blocks a night while anchoring a San Antonio Spurs team playing at a 59-win pace. Both entered the season as obvious award contenders. Now, both sit one...
It’s officially NBA time! The NFL season is over and the focus has shifted to the home stretch of the NBA regular season. This is the time when teams are starting to assert themselves as the cream of the crop. Stars are making their cases for MVP and All-NBA while trying to make sure they...
With the NCAA National Player of the Year race all but wrapped up in favor of Duke’s freshman phenom Cameron Boozer, the bi-weekly NPOY Ladder will now shift into a Top Prospect Tracker, rounding up the top performances of the best college players that are expected to enter the upcoming NBA Draft in June. The...
When Carlotta Ruff first stepped onto Alabama State University’s football field as a freshman member of the Sensational Stingettes dance line in 2002, she never imagined that more than 20 years later her daughter would follow in her footsteps and make history. Ruff and her daughter, freshman dancer Cailyn Harris, are the first mother and...
SEATTLE — Everett Fitzhugh had never thrown a fish before. He had certainly never caught one either. But on this new year’s holiday week, the only full-time Black play-by-play radio broadcaster in the NHL was breaking new ground personally, at the Pike Place Market. A recognizable face to the mongers of the establishment, a week...
Things have gotten real at Unrivaled. In the final full weekend of the regular season, there were still three teams vying for one final playoff spot on the final slate of Monday games going down at the Sephora Arena in Miami. Vinyl, The Lunar Owls, and The Breeze all competed for the sixth seed–as well...