The Portland Fire are turning to one of the WNBA’s most accomplished expansion builders to guide their new era. The franchise announced Monday that Vanja Černivec has been named its first General Manager. She will oversee all basketball operations — from hiring the inaugural head coach to assembling the roster — when she begins her...
Former North Carolina Central quarterback Davius Richard is back in Durham, North Carolina, in the same meeting rooms and on the same practice fields as when he played there. The former Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Offensive Player of the Year is now the quarterbacks coach at his alma mater, helping shape his successors. A number...
Amid the recent news that John Wall’s first post-retirement endeavor will be joining Prime’s desk of NBA analysts for its inaugural season of NBA coverage, I naturally began to wonder which players would be best suited for a potential career as an NBA broadcaster, analyst or talking head once their playing days come to a...
Hollywood’s fascination with sports legends continues as Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to develop With the 8th Pick, a biographical drama exploring one of basketball’s most pivotal moments. The film will chronicle the complex draft process that nearly altered NBA history when Kobe Bryant entered the league straight from high school. The project, penned...
For many years in the most prominent soccer leagues in the world, there was a better chance at witnessing a goalkeeper score a goal in a match than there was seeing any Black person manage a team. Despite a large number of Black players either directly from African countries or having a heritage that descends from...
Derrick Rose will officially reach Chicago immortality when the Bulls retire his jersey this season, marking the completion of a full-circle moment for one of the great icons in the city’s basketball history. Rose will see his iconic No. 1 raised into the United Center rafters on January 24, presumably at halftime of the team’s...
Filmmaker Evelyn Pollard-Gregory couldn’t walk away from it. Pollard-Gregory knew the Cleveland Buckeyes, one of the last great teams from the Negro Leagues, had a story to tell, and she intended to learn about their story and then tell it. If she could. … “I grew up in Cleveland, and I knew about all the...
The good news for Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson is that he still has time to recover from another major setback early in his career. Whether he does will depend on many factors, the biggest of which is Richardson’s next move. After the Colts this week named Daniel Jones as their Week 1 starter over...
When Chance the Rapper took to the Grammy stage in 2017 to accept the award for Best New Artist, yelling “independence is freedom” as the music signaled his speech was over, it was a declaration that the music industry’s newest disruptor was here to stay. Chance, real name Chancelor Bennett, took home three Grammy awards...
ABC and ESPN, the networks of the Walt Disney Company, will return to the duties of calling some of the NBA’s biggest games. The networks of the Walt Disney Company will continue to be the happiest place on Earth for NBA fans. ABC and ESPN will enter their 24th consecutive season of calling the Association’s...