Ross Kelly of CBS Sports is reporting members of a girls basketball team have been booted after making complaints against their coach who they said was too “touchy feely.” Kelly writes: “Seven girls from a high s...
Writing for The Nation, Dave Zirin examines the seven things that we learned from Thabo Sefolosha, the Atlanta Hawks guard whose leg was broken by NYPD, who then charged him with a slew of misdemeanors to add insult to his injury....
ESPN is reporting former NFL running back Warrick Dunn has provided housing for nearly 140 single mothers via his non-profit Warrick Dunn Charities. The three-time Pro Bowler played in the NFL for 11 years for the Tampa Bay Buccan...
In July 2015, the U.S. women’s soccer team won the World Cup in front of a record-breaking television audience of 26.7 million American viewers. More Americans watched the U.S. women’s soccer team dispose of Japan than watched the...
Alan Baldwin of Reuters is reporting that Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton set the pace in the first practice for the Italian Grand Prix on Friday. Hamilton, who is seeking his 11th pole position in 12 races on Saturday, ...
The sports world is mourning the loss of basketball legend Darryl Dawkins, who died of a heart attack yesterday. Dawkins was the first high school player to go directly to the NBA. He was selected No. 5 in the 1975 NBA draft by th...
The blogosphere is in a tizzy over the early release of convicted killer Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympic gold medalist who admitted to killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29 in February 2013. Pistorius, who was sentenced to 5 ...
Emanuela Grinberg of CNN is reporting Major League Baseball Player David Denson, 20, has announced that he is gay, making him the first openly gay active player in league history. Denson, a first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers&...
Yesha Callahan of The Root is reporting that Alia Atkinson has made history as the first black woman to win a world title in the sport of swimming. Atkinson, who is Jamaican, won the women’s 100 breaststroke at the world short-cou...
Kia ‘Prime Time’ Sidbury is a professional pool player in the Women’s Professional Billiards Association (WPBA). She will compete in the New York State 9-ball Championship on Saturday, Aug. 1. TBW contributor Dr. Steph...
