Fall league basketball has taken itself to new heights, especially on the West Coast. Since the COVID pandemic, many players throughout the nation were left without anywhere to play during the fall and winter of 2020. While many states were shut down under state and county mandated precautions at that time, states such as Arizona...
For most of Friday night, the Minnesota Lynx looked like the team that had tied a WNBA record with 34 regular-season wins and entered the playoffs as the top seed. They were physical, disciplined, and carried a four-point lead into the fourth quarter of Game 3 against the Phoenix Mercury. Photo Credit: Shawn Mclurkin |...
It’s been seven years since Cardi B released her debut solo album, Invasion of Privacy. The project marked Cardi’s arrival as rap’s newest household name. She emerges in 2025 with her long-awaited follow-up, Am I the Drama?, as an even bigger star. The album is explosive, expensive and full of talking points only Cardi can...
The New York Liberty ended their 2025 WNBA season with a disappointing early playoff exit, falling to the Phoenix Mercury in the first round in three games. Despite opening the year with a franchise-record nine straight wins and finishing with a 27-17 record, the Liberty could not repeat their 2024 championship run and were eliminated...
As Chicago Bulls guard Coby White recently discussed his vision to aid the lives and minds of challenged Black and brown youth, he reflected on what kept him from overcoming the dangerous trappings of his younger years: Family, fear and basketball. “I always say that basketball saved my life,” White told Andscape a week ago....
Quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson – arguably the NFL’s top two players – have continued to dazzle early this season. The teams they lead? Well, not so much. Despite Mahomes’ typical playmaking wizardry, the Kansas City Chiefs have struggled during their uncharacteristically slow start. Likewise for the Baltimore Ravens, who haven’t provided much support...
The Phoenix Mercury pulled off an improbable Game 2 comeback in the best-of-five series, rallying from a 20-point deficit to beat the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday in Minneapolis. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Just five days ago, the Mercury eliminated the defending champion New York Liberty on their home court in a decisive Game 3,...
The 16 is an ongoing essay series on the record number of Black quarterbacks starting in the NFL during the 2025 season. RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York became the Mecca of African American quarterbacks during the offseason when the city’s two professional football franchises signed four Black quarterbacks: The Jets signed Justin Fields and Tyrod...
I spent time last Sunday at Lacore Logistics Gym for the Hoop DFW 60 Camp presented by Charles Campbell. This article isn’t necessarily a top performers or standout list, but more so a quick hitter on guys I evaluated. It’s plenty to cover so let’s dive in. Camp 2027 Evals Brayden Williams, 6’3 SG –...
When the Seattle Storm announced the firing of head coach Noelle Quinn on Sunday, the result was a discomforting front office reality for the WNBA: With Quinn’s exit, there are no longer any Black female head coaches in the 13-team league. The WNBA is still a majority Black league. In 2023, 63.8% of 141 WNBA...