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The Beal-Porzingis-Paul deals feel like a D.C. psyops campaignAfter blundering through the last decade, The D.C. Universe is rebooting. Not the Snyderverse IP. I’m talking about the grotesque prospects for basketball in the District of Columbia. Hang around there long enough and you’ll catch me moaning about the bleak times facing the Commanders, Nats, and Wiz...

Hubert Davis' silence around UNC’s treatment of Ida B. Wells Society, Nikole Hannah-Jones is pathetic but expectedBeing the only one of your kind in “the room” is an honor as much as it is a burden. Ask women, Black people, or anyone from a minority group who has been in that position, and they’ll tell you about the pride that comes with being a needed representative for your community, along with the weight of...

NC State announcer Gary Hahn ruins a perfectly fine bowl game with a heaping dollop of racismFor those who turned on the North Carolina State radio broadcast to listen to a friendly voice narrate a bowl game, with a silly sponsorship, against a former conference foe — Maryland — who better to do it than Gary Hahn? He is in his fourth decade as the Wolfpacks’ play-by-play announcer, and sure...

Hey, NCAA: Let J.R. Smith play college golf already!

J.R. Smith never played college basketball. He jumped straight from high school to the NBA. Now that his NBA career is over, he’s making an effort to get a college degree. Smith will be attending North Carolina A&T — the largest HBCU in the nation, with just over 12,700 students — which consistently...

The Greensboro theory: Was the ACC Tournament a COVID-19 superspreader event?

If multiple people from different areas are testing positive for COVID-19 after all being in the same places a week ago, shouldn’t the focus be on that particular place?...

Trevor Stewart walks down Power Five in 4x400 relay, shows why NCAT Track is above the rest

Arguably the best HBCU track program of the past decade just made history again....

North Carolina Central finally gets its shine as basketball’s best HBCU program with ESPN+ docuseries

The ones in the “in-crowd” have always known, but in a few weeks, the rest of the world will be introduced to the real....

This Perfect High School Basketball Highlight Has One Block, One Dime, One Dunk, And Zero Dribbles

What can a highlight truther truther when the highlight has no dribbles? Let’s find out. Brandon Beidleman tried to take it to the rack as his Zebulon B. Vance Cougars played the West Charlotte Lions in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday night. Lions senior Patrick Williams swatted that shit, sending the ...