The Indiana Fever’s playoff push continues to intensify, but the franchise remains without star guard Caitlin Clark, who is still sidelined with a groin injury suffered on July 17 against the Connecticut Sun. Clark has now missed 17 straight games and 25 overall this season. While she has recently taken part in pregame shootarounds and...
NEW YORK — To understand just how recognizable Taylor Townsend has become while advancing to Week 2 of the US Open for just the second time in her career, you need to look no further than a post over the summer on her Instagram page. There’s Townsend on the clip walking the grounds of the...
The Las Vegas Aces are rolling into September as the hottest team in the WNBA. Their 81-75 win over the Atlanta Dream on Wednesday pushed their win streak to 12, tying the franchise record set in 2012 when the team was still the San Antonio Silver Stars. Photo Credit: Jineen Williams | Ballislife A’ja Wilson...
Hyperbole. Prisoner of the moment. Whatever one would call it — and there is some element of truth to both, Micah Parsons’ shocking but none-too-surprising-in-retrospect trade somehow cuts deeper than the infamous “Dez Catch.” That’s because it’s difficult not to surmise Dallas Cowboys owner, president and general manager Jerry Jones didn’t get exactly what he...
NEW YORK — As Frances Tiafoe settles in for his third-round match at the US Open on Friday, Russell Lokko will do all he can — school schedule permitting — to find a television on the campus of the University of Louisville to watch. “I always looked up to him growing up,” Lokko said of...
The second edition of my recap from the TCU Elite Camp targets the 2027 class. A good pool of prospects were there and let’s dive into who stood out to me from the rising junior class. Jacques Mitchell Was The Best 2027 I Saw The Booker T. Washington (Tulsa, Okla.) point guard was, in my...
There’s a song on Ghostface Killah’s new, unabashedly nostalgic album Supreme Clientele 2 that perfectly encapsulates the boundless, manic brilliance of the Wu-Tang Clan spitter. On the self-produced, heart-racing “Georgy Porgy,” which samples the soulful 1978 Toto classic of the same name, Ghostface takes listeners inside a drug house robbery turned wild, bloody shootout. “A...
The Dallas Cowboys on Thursday traded superstar edge rusher Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers, parting ways with one of the NFL’s elite defensive players in his prime. That’s a whole lot to digest. Now, with the Cowboys preparing to face the Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles next Thursday in the league’s curtain-raiser, they’ll have...
Summer is on its way out, which means football season is here. High schools and colleges across the country officially begin their seasons this week if they haven’t started already, and the NFL isn’t far behind them with their season-opening game kicking off a week from Thursday. You might be wondering why Ballislife, a basketball-focused...
NEW YORK — When Dr. Shelby Chipman received the call inviting the Florida A&M Marching 100 to perform at the US Open’s HBCU Live, his affirmative response was immediate. “We have a busy schedule, but coming here is amazing,” said Chipman, who has been the band director at his alma mater since 2016. “And to...