Basketball Page 987 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
We Rank the Worst No. 1 Picks in NBA Lottery History
Since the NBA’s first draft lottery in 1985, there have been 11 first-overall picks who did not make an All-NBA team or appear in an All-Star Game. That number is a little inflated because Zion Williamson and DeAndre Ayton are just getting started, so when you’re trying to figure out which is the wo...
Trump Is The Main Reason We Won’t Have College Football
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that irony can be cruel....
Trash Talkin' Tuesday: The NCAA Should Have Shut This Down
Today, I’m trashing the NCAA....
Athletes' Voices Help Dismantle Abusive Culture at Texas Tech
Texas Tech fired head women’s basketball coach Marlene Stollings on Thursday after USA Today reported a culture of abuse and toxicity in the program. ...
WNBA Urges Voters: Kick Kelly Loeffler’s Terrible Ass Out of Congress
The WNBA pulls no goddamn punches....
Kelly Loeffler's White Supremacy Tour Continues - It's Time for the WNBA to Dump Her
It’s not like people aren’t aware of how awful Kelly Loeffler is. In addition to probably engaging in insider trading and trying to make a buck off Americans dying of COVID-19 (which both the GOP-controlled Senate and Bill Barr’s Justice Department declined to look into - quelle coincidence!), Loeff...
NCAA Robs Predominantly Black Football & Basketball Players of Billions in Generational Wealth — Damning Study Shows Athletes Deserve $1 Million Over Four Years
The average NCAA men’s basketball player should walk out of commencement with a diploma … and more than $1 million. Football players should have earned nearly the same....
WNBA Bubble Tip-Off: Stories to Watch This Season, on and off the Court
The WNBA season starts Saturday, with the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty squaring off to open a triple header that also includes the Los Angeles Sparks taking on the Phoenix Mercury and the defending champion Washington Mystics facing the Indiana Fever....
The WNBA Has a Privileged White Woman Problem and Her Name Is Kelly Loeffler
If Kelly Loeffler were a white man, she would have already been banned from the WNBA....
Everybody Hates Kelly Loeffler
In a different timeline, in a fairer world, Kelly Loeffler might be facing insider trading charges and a Senate Ethics Committee investigation for selling stocks after being briefed in January about the coronavirus, before the stock market tanked in late March amid concerns about the pandemic....
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Inside the Nasty, Bed-Bug Ridden WNBA Bubble [Updated]
A WNBA league source told Deadspin that the league’s “bubble” at IMG Academy, designed to keep the coronavirus out, has failed to do the same with bed bugs. ...
Racist College Coaches Are Getting Exposed by Their Players, and it's Awesome
Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy was just the tip of the iceberg....
HBCUs Need More than Makur Maker, They Need NBA Money Makers, Too
The only thing Historically Black Colleges and Universities need more than a five-star basketball recruit like Makur Maker is cash....
Who Are the Best Athletes to Come From an HBCU? We Found a Few
The decision of top college recruit Markur Maker to turn down scholarship offers from Kentucky, UCLA and Memphis to attend Howard University, in D.C., an Historically Black College and University, has put the focus on HBCUs, once home to some of the best student-athletes in the country. When souther...
5-Star Recruit Makur Maker Committing to Howard Could be Game Changer for HBCUs
Maybe Makur Maker’s decision will be the spark....
All Maya Moore Did Was Walk Away From Her WNBA Career to Help Free an Innocent Man
Maya Moore willingly gave up her WNBA career before the age of 30. ...
Pitino is the Voice of Reason: Delay College Hoops Until January
One of college basketball’s most contentious coaches is speaking out on the start to the 2020-21 season in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Days After SEC & NCAA Call for Mississippi to Remove Confederate Emblem from Flag, the State Legislature Agrees
The state of Mississippi legislature has voted to change its state flag due to the presence of the Confederate flag within it....
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WNBA’s McCoughtry Wants to Put Names of Police Brutality Victims on Jersey Backs [UPDATED]
The WNBA has put it out on Main Street: This is the time. Their words match their actions. Three of the WNBA’s biggest stars, Imani McGee-Stafford, Natasha Cloud and Renee Montgomery will not be competing in the WNBA’s 22-game hoop bubble season next month in Bradenton, Fla, citing this being the ti...
NCAA & SEC Hit the State of Mississippi Where it Hurts the Most
Allegiance to the Confederate flag is starting to become costly....