All 50 ranked teams written up with explanations for why they were placed in these positions with comparisons to preseason ranking. The FAB 50 National Team Rankings powered by Ballislife.com is the official rankings of the National Sports News Service, which date back to the 1952 season. CIA Bella Vista of Arizona is the 2025-26...
Listen to this story Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Deshaun Watson and Shedeur Sanders are engaged in one of the most intriguing preseason quarterback competitions in recent NFL history. The Cleveland Browns‘ starting quarterback battle is yet another footnote in the long evolution of Black quarterbacks climbing Jacob’s Ladder. This season, Watson...
The 1996 USA women’s national basketball team has gained immortality and Dawn Staley at least appreciates the timing. UNCASVILLE—Dawn Staley might not have liked the way it was drawn up. But, like many a broken play under her watch, somehow it worked all the same. (Photo by Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Staley is becoming...
Elena Delle Donne put up one of the greatest careers in WNBA history … one that almost never happened. UNCASVILLE—Basketball history may have shifted for good in 2008. This particular hallowed happening occurred not on any form of hardwood but rather the Delaware home of Elena Delle Donne. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images) At the...
The second season of the NBA on NBC’s third iteration gets underway with a star-spangled tripleheader on Oct. 20. The NBA on NBC is undeniably on a break but it’ll return with a vengeance on Oct. 20. (Photo by Ronald Cortes/Getty Images) Thursday’s release of the 2026-27 NBA schedule saw over 100 games added to...
Russell Westbrook, a force of nature and inevitable first-ballot Hall of Famer, retired from the NBA on Wednesday in a manner worthy of his career — with praise and prestige from a man named Michael Jordan. I mean, why not? Jordan Brand has often been a defining part of the Westbrook mystique. A decade ago,...
The fact that LeBron James is actually a member of the Philadelphia 76ers is starting to feel a bit more real, if only for the fact that the full NBA schedule was officially released on Thursday. We now have the entire picture of what this upcoming season will look like for LeBron, from Game 1...
Andscape senior NFL writer Jason Reid speaks to coordinators leaguewide about what meaningful advancement looks like for Black coaches at the highest level of football “I’m qualified, and I’m ready for it.” Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Vance Joseph is clear about his hope to lead an NFL team again, even as his priority remains the...
Listen to this story Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Zero. It isn’t a score. It isn’t a handicap. It isn’t the number of putts a player hopes to take from 6 feet. Instead, zero is the number of African American golfers who competed this year in the four men’s professional major golf...
Listen to this story Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Just weeks before his death, Nipsey Hussle stopped by Power 106 in Los Angeles to speak with Justin Credible and DJ Sourmilk of the L.A. Leakers. The biggest takeaway from the interview, one of the last of his short yet transcendent life, was...