AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — NFL prospect and former Baylor football player Shawn Oakman was arrested Wednesday on a charge of sexually assaulting a woman at his Texas apartment earlier this month, Waco police said. The arrest of the record-setting defensive end is the latest troubling incident for the Baylor football program. Two former players were […]
OUSTON (AP) — Kris Jenkins is one of those players who believes every shot is going in. Sometimes, it feels so right to be right. The Villanova junior answered a double-clutch, game-tying 3-pointer by North Carolina’s Marcus Paige with a buzzer-beating 3 of his own Monday night to lift the Wildcats to a 77-74 victory […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Kris Jenkins and Nate Britt, brothers in every way except blood, are giving each other the silent treatment for about 48 hours. Maybe they will exchange a “good luck” or a fist bump before Jenkins and Villanova (34-5) face Britt and North Carolina (33-6) on Monday night in the NCAA Tournament championship […]
Nobody in the NBA was knocking down Ryan Arcidiacono’s door when his junior season ended a year ago. Buddy Hield — that was a different story. Arcidiacono stayed at Villanova because he had no other choice. Hield stayed at Oklahoma because he had unfinished business. The guards, who lead their respective teams in very different […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans have decided to shut down All-Star forward Anthony Davis for the rest of this season, and his future with U.S. Olympic team for this summer’s Rio Games is in doubt as well. Coach Alvin Gentry said Sunday that Davis needs to repair a recent knee injury and […]
TNT Analyst Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith is co-hosting the first full week of the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament with Charles Barkley, Ernie Johnson, Greg Gumbel and Clark Kellogg. He talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the latest rankings and upsets in March Madness, who he picks to win it all and if he […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has made his final NCAA Tournament call in office: Rock Chalk, champions. Obama picked Kansas, Texas A&M, North Carolina and Michigan State to all reach the Final Four in a bracket he filled out for ESPN. His choice might be an unpopular one around Kansas, though. Obama hasn’t correctly […]
DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors on Tuesday charged former Michigan State basketball star Mateen Cleaves with sexually assaulting a 24-year-old woman who said she was driven to a Michigan motel and attacked. Arrangements were being made for Cleaves, 39, to turn himself in to authorities, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement. Cleaves was […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The first blockbuster upset of March Madness: Twitter over CBS on Selection Sunday. The NCAA said Sunday night it is looking into how a copy of this year’s tournament bracket got leaked online during the network’s extended selection show on Sunday. The bracket was being shared on Twitter about 20 minutes […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three Minnesota men’s basketball players were suspended over the weekend after a sexually explicit video appeared on one of their social media accounts, according to a person with knowledge of the discipline. Guards Kevin Dorsey, Nate Mason and Dupree McBrayer were benched Sunday at Illinois for what the Gophers announced as a […]
Black History Month has never been this Black. There’s Beyoncè’s “Formation” video, there was Cam Newton (Say what you want haters, he’s still the MVP) Serena Williams making it to the Australian Open final (she lost, but still) and Nate Parker’s Sundance Film Festival takeover. (It happened at the end of January, but we’re still counting […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State University has settled a Title IX lawsuit with a former student who said the school failed to adequately investigate allegations that she was raped by former star quarterback Jameis Winston. The settlement was announced a day before Winston’s accuser, Erica Kinsman, had been scheduled to give a deposition in […]