Category: Sports

When Shaquille O’Neal retired from basketball last month, he promised his fans he wouldn’t stop entertaining them. O’Neal kept his word, signing a multi-year deal with TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” an award-winning basketball analysis/commentary show. Shaq will now join fan favorites Kenny Smith, Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley in perhaps the most popular post-game basketball […]

The weather was extremely hot this past weekend, but the Goodman Coalition courts were even hotter thanks to all the NBA talent that stopped pass Spingarn High School in Northeast, Washington D.C.   Four young NBA players participated in the Goodman Coalition weekend basketball games, including a Saturday evening headliner on July 9 that featured […]

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison blasted NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, along with several others affiliated with the NFL, including some of his own teammates, according to reports. ESPN reports that the former Defensive Player of the Year honoree verbally lashed out on Goodell during an interview with Men’s Journal; statements from the interview, recorded in […]

NFL veteran player Hines Ward was arrested on July 9 for driving under the influence of alcohol, according to reports. The Associated Press reports that the 35-year-old Pittsburgh Steelers receiver was processed into the DeKalb County jail in Decatur, Ga., just outside of Atlanta, at 3:41 a.m. and charged with a DUI. According to the […]

Last year’s redemption season didn’t just put Philadelphia quarterback Michael Vick back on the NFL map, it also put him back with mega giant Nike. The company inked Vick to a deal in 2001 as the superstar of the Atlanta Falcons but later terminated his contract in 2007 after Vick pleaded guilty to charges of […]

NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar made headlines more than a month ago after blasting fellow Pro Basketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen for claiming that Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball scorer ever despite Abdul-Jabbar being the NBA’s all-time leading scorer statistic wise. Now, Kareem is pointing the blast machine in the direction of the Los […]

With the National Basketball Association formally on hiatus due to a labor dispute, one NBA superstar has decided he’s not going to wait around if the league isn’t back up and running by the start of the season. New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams has reached a tentative agreement with Besiktas, a Turkish basketball […]

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley is in trouble over marijuana–again. The 22-year-old Beasley was ticketed for speeding and marijuana possession on June 26 in Minnetonka, a Minneapolis suburb. According to reports, the Suitland, Md. native was stopped after an officer clocked him going 84 mph in a 65 mph zone along Interstate 394. After the […]

Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end John Mackey, most famous for helping the former Baltimore Colts win Super Bowl V, died on July 7 from dementia, according to reports. He was 69. BaltimoreRavens.com reports that Mackey’s wife, Sylvia first informed the Ravens organization of her husband’s death, which occurred late on July 6. He […]

The collective bargaining agreement between the National Basketball Association’s owners and its players expired on June 30, causing the owners to lockout their players for the first time in more than a decade. The NBA is the second professional American sports league to lockout this year, after the National Football League locked out its players […]