Louisville campus police now say they are reviewing allegations that a former men’s basketball staffer hired escorts to dance and have sex with recruits and players in a dormitory. Katina Powell has alleged in a book released online over the weekend that former Cardinals director of basketball operation Andre McGee paid her $10,000 for dancers […]
A federal appeals court struck down a plan to pay college football and basketball players in a ruling that NCAA leaders believe supports their contention that the athletes are students and not professionals. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Wednesday that the NCAA’s use of college athletes’ names, images and likenesses in video […]
UCLA football keeps getting tackled by internal drama. The latest comes via one of the school’s star players taking a major hit off the field. According to TMZ Sports, the university suspended Ishmael Adams indefinitely after the cornerback allegedly fought and robbed an Uber driver of his cell phone early Sunday morning (Aug. 30). Fortunately for authorities, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns hoisted a child high up toward his shoulders, letting the youngster at an NBA community service event feel what it was like to rock the rim with a dunk. Next up for Towns might be trying to help lift the Minnesota Timberwolves. The center from Kentucky is considered the […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — John Calipari and his Kentucky pipeline to the NBA will have yet another major impact on the league’s annual draft. It’s nothing new, but Thursday night could be record-setting — even for the Wildcats. Calipari’s first Kentucky team in 2010 featured five first-round NBA draft picks, including No. 1 overall selection […]
Alcorn State University men’s basketball coach Davey “The Wiz” Whitney coached at the school for nearly three decades. Whitney led the Braves to a 1980 NCAA tournament win over South Alabama, making it the first HBCU to notch a win in the men’s contest. Whitney died last month in Biloxi, Miss. at the age […]
Lauren Hill, the 19-year-old who inspired many during her brave fight against cancer, lost her battle to that terrible disease on Friday. Affected by an…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Call them freshmen. Please, do not call them kids. Led by Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor, Duke’s talented group of youngsters outscored Wisconsin by 14 points over the final 13 minutes Monday night to grit out a 68-63 victory for the program’s fifth national title. Okafor, the likely first pick in the […]
Dang, talk about being a sore loser and bad sport. Black University of Kentucky guard Andrew Harrison apologized Sunday for calling University of Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky, who is white, a racial slur, according to the Associated Press. Another player was asked a question about Kaminsky when Harrison muttered ”F— that n—-” into a live microphone. […]
The NCAA tournament is about to determine another college champion and usually around that time there’s one school that seems to always be in contention. That school is Kentucky, which has two games to play to determine if they will succeed in playing and undefeated season. Coach Orlando “Tubby” Smith, now with Texas Tech, […]
A group of prominent black coaches headlined by Tubby Smith and Shaka Smart are forming an organization to address the dwindling numbers of minority head coaches in college basketball. The National Association for Coaching Equity and Development is in response to the dissolution of the Black Coaches Association. Ten years after minority coaches held more […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — UConn men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie will not be traveling to the Final Four this week, abiding by a travel ban ordered by Connecticut’s governor because of Indiana’s new religious-objections law, the school announced Tuesday. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other critics contend the law would allow businesses to deny service […]
