Gotham FC player Midge Purce has a robust résumé. After suffering a season-ending ACL injury in March 2024, she returned to the pitch in April and Saturday helped lead Gotham FC to their second NWSL championship in the past three seasons. The 2023 NWSL championship MVP is also a former Harvard soccer standout who now...
LAS VEGAS — Shedeur Sanders has earned the right to be given a fair opportunity. He’s earned the right to finish out the season as the Cleveland Browns‘ starting quarterback. He earned that right with a solid performance on Sunday against the Las Vegas Raiders. Yes, the Raiders are a struggling team, but so are...
Rodney Rogers was an All-American at Wake Forest before earning the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year title in 2000. Wake Forest University announced the passing of former basketball star Rodney Rogers this weekend. Rogers was 54 years old and, per the Associated Press, died of natural causes linked to a spinal cord injury that...
Two NCAA women’s basketball Top 10 teams, No. 1 UConn Huskies and No. 6 Michigan Wolverines, face at the Basketball Hall of Fame Showcase at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut on Friday. The basketball Hall of Fame Showcase also features Syracuse and Utah. (Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images) UConn Faces Michigan for First Time Both the...
In his first season as Norfolk State’s head football coach, Michael Vick and the Spartans’ running backs coach, Vick’s former Virginia Tech teammate Andre Kendrick, are writing the next chapter of a brotherhood that began nearly three decades ago in Blacksburg, Virginia. What started as a college friendship has turned into a reunion on the...
The New York Liberty will bring on Golden State Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco to serve as its new head coach. Down by the Bay, the New York Liberty reportedly found its new head coach. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) Per Shams Charania of ESPN, the Liberty will name current Golden State Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco...
Mike Herard could not believe it. For weeks, the veteran A&R man who operates the estate of late Harlem hip-hop great Big L, was unsure if the verse would ever come to fruition. Last summer Nas’ team told Herard that the acclaimed Grammy-winning wordsmith and co-founder of Mass Appeal Records had been obsessed with a...
The way Atlanta Hawks forward Jalen Johnson sees it, good things come to those who wait and truly work. Johnson didn’t live up to his hype at Duke and was picked later than expected in the 2021 NBA draft. He was sent to the G League as a rookie. He finally gained confidence thanks to...
Orlando Magic big man Wendell Carter Jr. addressed the gossip surrounding his relationship with WNBA All-Star Angel Reese. Is romantic magic brewing between Orlando Magic big man Wendell Carter Jr. and WNBA All-Star Angel Reese? Photo by Daniel Bartel/Getty Images The former offered a non-committal, if not intriguing, response when questioned about the gossip by...
LAS VEGAS – With Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders scheduled to make his first start Sunday against the Las Vegas Raiders, NFL pioneer Doug Williams hopes the rookie passer takes a step forward in his nascent career. But in a lengthy phone interview with Andscape on Wednesday, Williams – the legendary former signal-caller who was...