EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern women’s basketball player Jordan Hankins has been found dead in her room at the university. The university said in a statement that the 19-year-old Hankins’ body was found Monday afternoon. The statement from spokesman Carsten Parmenter said there is no indication of foul play or “any danger or threat to […]
An effort to get the life story of Arthur Ashe to the big screen has begun in Hollywood. Writer Krystin Ver Linden has just finished a script, titled Ashe, which follows not only the on-court story of the tennis icon who broke racial barriers in the sport, but also focuses on his humanitarian work outside […]
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Serena Williams mixed flashes of form and occasional bouts of frustration as she ended four months on the sidelines with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Pauline Parmentier on Tuesday in the first round of the ASB Classic. Top-seeded Williams had to wait an extra day to make her first appearance […]
Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016 Summer Olympics like just your average ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the stakes were different? The floor was still the floor. The vault still the vault. The uneven bars still uneven. The balance beam still a four-inch wide test of nerves. And the 19-year-old […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — King James is set to tell the story of The Greatest. Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James will be the executive producer of an HBO documentary on Muhammad Ali, who died earlier this year. The as-yet-untitled film will be directed by Antoine Fuqua, who also helmed the boxing drama “Southpaw” and “Training […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Usain Bolt is now a movie star. He refuses to say he’s an actor. Such a distinction is important for the Jamaican sprinting great and nine-time Olympic champion. Until his competitive career ends next year, Bolt will continue playing only one role — that of the world’s fastest man, someone who […]
It’s that time of year when magazines release their year-end issues and bestow honors to those who have made a large impact throughout the last 365 days. Sports Illustrated has finally revealed its 2016 SportsKids and they are none other than the fierce and fabulous Sheppard Sisters. If you are not familiar with these young […]
Tuskegee’s fourth consecutive Division II playoff appearance figured to be a brief one. The Golden Tigers got into the 28-team field as the No. 7 seed in Super Region 2 and had to go on the road against second-seeded Newberry, one of the hottest teams in the field after reeling off 10 straight wins. The […]
The year's almost up and it feels like we've kicked out tons of people from the black club.
11/14/16- Missed any of this weekend’s NFL games? Comedian Chris Paul covers the latest to the tune of a popular A Tribe Called Quest tune. Listen!
We’re used to hearing about wives of professional ballers divorcing their husbands, but this time around in divorce court, somebody’s flipped the script. Yes, we have a husband filing for divorce on his basketball player wife. We’re referring to WNBA superstar Candace Parker who has been served with divorce papers from her husband, Shelden Williams, […]
Two-time Super Bowl champion and President of G-III Sports, Carl Banks talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about his new HSN project, Chalk Talk, a four-episode web series that rotates an all-female panel alongside the former NFL giant. “We have this panel of men sitting around talking about sports…I thought it would be great doing it […]
