Ice Cube has had a long love affair with sports. Pick a sport. Any sport. And if that sport is representing his beloved home of Los Angeles or, at the very least, the great state of California? Even better. But now, Cube — who together with his groundbreaking NWA rap collective made the all-black Raiders...
Walter Clayton Jr’s Clutch Play Lifts Florida Past Houston For NCAA Championship Florida guard Walter Clayton Jr. spent most of Monday night’s NCAA men’s national championship game being relentlessly hounded and frustrated by Houston’s defense. Yet in the game’s defining moment, Clayton came up with the defensive play of the night to seal a win....
RABAT, Morocco – A familiar face appeared on a television while George King was enjoying some down time from playing pro basketball in the Middle East. To the American’s delight, it was Boston Celtics guard Derrick White, and King videotaped his ex-University of Colorado teammate with his cell phone. King is enjoying Morocco while playing...
Chipotle Nationals closed out the 2024-25 season and it’s now time to publish our final FAB 50 National Team Rankings powered by Ballislife.com. Columbus of Florida met its season-long goal of winning the prestigious tournament to cap off a season in which it finished ranked No. 1 in the country. The results of the 10-team...
TAMPA, Fla. — University of Connecticut forward Sarah Strong is the best freshman in college basketball — men’s or women’s. That may seem blasphemous in a season where everyone has been saying that distinction belonged to Duke forward Cooper Flagg. But while Duke was eliminated from the men’s tournament on Saturday, Strong’s 24-point, 15-rebound performance...
Written by Aya Abdeen & Sara Jane Gamelli The Women’s National Championship game is set in Tampa Bay. On Sunday, the South Carolina Gamecocks will face the UConn Huskies in a rematch of the 2022 National Championship. Out of 24 Final Four Appearance for Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies, South Carolina head coach Dawn...
TAMPA, Fla. — “I think we built our program based on the standard. UConn is and was the standard in our sport. If you can beat UConn, you can beat anybody.” — Dawn Staley We often talk about the need for individual stars in women’s college basketball, but the lifeblood of sustainability is programmatic rivalry....
Dwight Howard will join Carmelo Anthony at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield. Dwight Howard’s Magic basketball journey will end in Springfield. (Photo by Greg Nelson /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)= Per Shams Charania of ESPN, Howard is among the Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025. Howard enters the Hall on...
SAN ANTONIO — It’s not common to feel cheated taking a team to the Final Four, but that’s exactly how Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson felt in 2021 when the Cougars earned a trip to championship weekend in the midst of a global pandemic. “We had to stand in line to get tested before every...
The biggest questions of the San Antonio Spurs’ offseason will be when will superstar Victor Wembanyama be healthy enough to play again and whether Hall of Fame head coach Gregg Popovich will coach again. Overlooked in the heaviness of those two Spurs’ futures is whether future Hall of Fame guard Chris Paul will be retiring...