Category: Sports

Magic Johnson is leading the Los Angeles Lakers again after a major shake-up of the struggling franchise’s front office. Lakers owner Jeanie Buss fired general manager Mitch Kupchak on Tuesday and put Johnson in charge of basketball operations. Jeanie Buss also removed her brother, Jim, from his job as the Lakers’ executive vice president of […]

Candice Wiggins, the former Stanford University basketball star who retired from professional basketball last year, claimed she was targeted for harassment during an eight-year WNBA career because she was heterosexual. Candice Wiggins spent her final season in the WNBA with the Liberty in 2015. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek) Wiggins, who turned 30 last week, described the […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The NBA is going back to Africa. The league and the National Basketball Players Association announced Saturday that NBA Africa Game 2017 will be held on Aug. 5 in Johannesburg. It’s the second time the NBA is playing on that continent, after a sold-out event there in 2015. NBA AFRICA (Courtesy […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Older, wiser and more aware of the world, LeBron James is unafraid to let his views known on politics or social issues or even the business of basketball. It wasn’t always that way. Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) tries to get past Indiana Pacers’ Paul George (13) in the second half […]

Appearing on ESPN’s “First Take,” the Washington Wizards’ four-time All-Star point guard John Wall issued a strong statement—asked who the best point guard is in the NBA, he answered “me.”  “I just feel like I’m an all-around point guard,” Wall told ESPN panelists as the group discussed the Association’s top lead men. Washington Wizards guard John Wall (2) dribbles […]

The Washington Wizards already set the mark for most consecutive home wins this season, and now they’re trying to start a road streak as well. With a home and road game on the schedule before All-Star Weekend, Washington checked off positive marks in both departments and entered the midseason break five games out of first […]

It is no secret that, for an unbiased reporter, I do a poor job of keeping my feelings to myself. I have no problems expressing my likes and dislikes.  I think I opened this can of worms years ago when the Colts were in Baltimore. I was a Colts fan, but had spent a few years […]

Junior guard Tiwian Kendley scored a game-high 25 points to help lead the Morgan State University Bears to a 83-75 victory over Savannah State on Feb. 18 in Baltimore. The win snapped a three-game losing skid for the Bears which dropped them from second place to a tie for third place in the Mid-Eastern Athletic […]

The Howard University Bison men’s basketball team knocked off the North Carolina A&T State University Aggies, 84-53, in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) match on Feb. 18 in Washington, D.C.  The victory marked the second straight win for Howard, which upset Morgan State in a 70-67 victory on Feb. 13. It was also the first […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis was charged with four first-degree felonies and one misdemeanor after allegedly being involved in a fight with two men last weekend. In this Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, photo, New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis walks on the field after an NFL football game against the Buffalo […]

Facing the largest deficit in history the New England Patriots never wavered against the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl 51.  There was a calm resolute confidence known as “the Patriot way” that propelled them to the greatest comeback in the championship game which earned a fifth Vince Lombardi Trophy in seven tries cementing their unprecedented […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Derek Jeter’s wife, Hannah, says they are expecting their first child together, a girl. FILE – In this May 4, 2015, file photo, Derek Jeter, right, and Hannah Davis arrive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating “China: Through the Looking Glass” in New York. Hannah Jeter […]