Continuing on my series of Texas players to monitor the rest of the scholastic season and into the spring, I named 13 fine players for 2026, I name 11 players that aren’t heavy in the national scene yet as talented Texas sophomores (2028). For this selected 11, these next two years are critical and will...
Andrea Odom doesn’t hesitate when asked what sparked the idea she now hopes becomes a movement. The moment arrived just before the 2023 Major League Baseball draft, as agents began recruiting her son, Dylan Campbell of the University of Texas, and it came with a hard lesson her family didn’t expect to learn. “We had...
Sabrina Ionescu did not return to the second season of Unrivaled, the league co-founded by New York Liberty teammate Breanna Stewart. Some were concerned when a certain Duck didn’t fly south for the winter. (Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images) Unrivaled, the Miami-based three-on-three women’s basketball league co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart,...
It’s been a dream for Laila Edwards since she was 6 years old, watching women’s hockey in the Winter Olympics and dreaming she could one day wear the Team USA jersey. “You dream it, you work towards it,” said Edwards, who will turn 22 this month. “But as you dream it, you’re not exactly sure...
For the first time this offseason, there seems to be a legitimate light at the end of the tunnel in the hotly contested CBA negotiations between the WNBA and the league’s players association. Walking the red carpet at the SI Sportsperson of the Year Award ceremony in Las Vegas on Tuesday, New York Liberty star...
A little more than a month after guaranteeing free-agent quarterback Kirk Cousins $100 million, the Atlanta Falcons shook up the 2024 NFL draft by selecting passer Michael Penix Jr. with the eighth overall pick. On the heels of committing to Cousins, the drafting of Penix was a shocker, and the unspoken part was clear: For...
With just three days remaining, the WNBA and Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) have until Jan. 9 to reach a collective bargaining agreement. With an extension already in place, several outcomes are possible. Lunar Owls and Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier expressed her opinions and beliefs on the matter Monday night. Photo Credit: Shawn...
We’re nearing the halfway point of the NBA season, and it’s time to establish what’s real and what’s not in a given week. The season seemed like it was going chalk: The Thunder were going to run away with a championship, the Knicks were running away with the East, and the Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic was...
We didn’t have to break up the rankings and start fresh, but there is nearly an entire new order in the middle of the pack in the third edition of the FAB 50 National Team Rankings powered by Ballislife.com for the 2025-26 season. The first rankings of calendar year 2026 show explosive movement and 10...
Throughout 2026, Andscape will explore the recent rise of Black agents in sports — the challenges they’ve faced in this once white-dominated industry, and how they’ve come to represent some of the biggest stars in football, basketball and beyond. About a decade ago, Tamika Hrobowski wanted to pivot from being an attorney to a sports...