Via Andscape, a report on how Michael Jordan’s Hornets sale leaves the NBA with no Black majority team ownership and only two people of color, Sacramento’s Vivek Ranadive and Brooklyn’s Joe Tsai, remaining as majority [...]
May
18,
2023
38 At The Garden chronicles the extraordinary ascendance of point guard Jeremy Lin during his landmark 2012 season with the New York Knicks. Lin, an undrafted Harvard graduate, shocked fans, stunned his teammates and galvanized [...]
May
11,
2023
Via The Players' Tribune, commentary on the need for more women in sports coaching by Pau Gasol:
I want to tell you a little something about my parents.
I grew up just outside of Barcelona, a child of two highly successful [...]
Ten years ago, Jason Collins became the first active publicly gay athlete of North America’s four major pro sports when he signed with the Brooklyn Nets in February 2014. Here is his story:
Jason Collins’ goal never was [...]
April
11,
2023
Good to see this passionate nine-minute monologue from NBA San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich taking on politicians for not taking action to stop school shootings ahead of his team’s regular-season finale in Dallas on [...]
April
11,
2023
Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton, star attraction of the Harlem Globetrotters, changed the game of basketball when he became the first African American player to sign a contract with the NBA in the fall of 1950. This new movie [...]