Screenshot: TikTok/eronhodges Texas Christian University football had its best football season in program history in 2022. But, what they’re doing with their players in the offseason may pay more dividends off the field than anything they are doing on it. While football in many ways is just a kid’s game, it can also be used […]
Read More
Before this year’s Super Bowl, the Kansas City football superfan known as Chiefsaholic was a source of fascination in the sports world. How, people wondered, did a man known for wearing a wolf mask to games and placing large bets end up in jail on charges that he robbed a bank in Tulsa, Okla.? Now […]
Read More
Someone get the Baltimore Ravens some ice cream and a Mary J. Blige playlist because things are about to get emotional. The ongoing contract drama between the Ravens and superstar quarterback Lamar Jackson has just reached nuclear levels. On Monday morning, the 2019 NFL MVP tweeted, “As of March 2nd I requested a trade from […]
Read More
In a teary locker room this month, after the Notre Dame men’s basketball team ended its season with a close loss in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, the coach spoke not about lost opportunities on the court, but rather about the six master’s degrees (in addition to undergraduate degrees) that members of the team had […]
Read More
Photo: Ross Lewis (Getty Images) There’s a small group of professional athletes in world history who can define their career in one moment, especially NBA players. It’s normally reserved for the most legendary of players on the biggest stage. Examples of this include Michael Jordan with his “last shot” against the Utah Jazz; LeBron James […]
Read More
Photo: Chris Graythen (Getty Images) With the NFL Draft approaching on April 27, top college players are looking to increase their chances of being drafted by showing off their skills at their school’s Pro Day. These events are important because there’s often so much going on and so many players to keep track of at […]
Read MoreMichael Irvin’s attorney has stuck to his word and released a video that he believes will exonerate his client from the sexual assault allegations made against him. CC Off English If you haven’t been paying attention, the week leading up to the 2023 Super Bowl has haunted NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin. He was […]
Read More
This worked very well in the charmingly off-kilter first season, when Coach Lasso’s narrative obstacle was winning over a series of gruff antagonists, from the British sports media to the resistant players to the owner-saboteur. We tracked the progress of Ted’s evangelical mission by the characters who began to talk like him. Ted’s optimism began […]
Read More
NewsOne Featured Video Deion Sanders attends SiriusXM At Super Bowl LVII on February 9, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. | Source: Cindy Ord / Getty Listen: When Deion Sanders left HBCU Jackson State University to become the head football coach at the University of Colorado, a Power Five PWI, I was on the fence about how […]
Read More
Arrest warrants have been issued for Jalen Carter, a potential top-five pick in the coming N.F.L. draft, in connection with a car crash in January that killed two people, including a University of Georgia teammate, hours after the team’s parade for winning the national championship. The Athens-Clarke County Police Department said Wednesday that Carter, who […]
Read More
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Isaiah Vazquez / Getty Damar Hamlin isn’t going to let his tragic injury stop him from doing what he loves. The 24-year-old NFL safety doesn’t plan on his career ending before he reaches 25. Hamlin says his ultimate goal is to eventually play football again and according to Buffalo Bills General […]
Read More
Members of the Howard University swim team cheer as Howard University competes with Georgetown University at the Howard University Swimming Battle at the Burr, on October 1, 2022 in Washington, D.CPhoto: Michael A. McCoy/For The Washington Post (Getty Images) For HBCU athletic programs, it’s a constant struggle to even the playing field with their counterparts […]
Read More
Members of the Howard University swim team cheer as Howard University competes with Georgetown University at the Howard University Swimming Battle at the Burr, on October 1, 2022 in Washington, D.CPhoto: Michael A. McCoy/For The Washington Post (Getty Images) For HBCU athletic programs, it’s a constant struggle to even the playing field with their counterparts […]
Read More
For a stadium, the field must be watered frequently leading up to events. This means that the more games an arena hosts, and more frequently, the more care and water it would need. “It’s driven by the weather and usage. If we don’t have an event for three weeks, that might be a different maintenance […]
Read More
PHOENIX — It was right before halftime of Sunday’s Super Bowl, and Kansas City trailed Philadelphia, 21-14, when Eagles’ linebacker T.J. Edwards chased down Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and landed on his already-tender ankle. Mahomes labored to get up. When he did, he tilted his head back in a grimace and then skipped gingerly toward […]
Read More
What’s the one play that is most remembered from a really big game? A ninth-inning strikeout from an ace reliever? A leaping save by a keeper? A powerful dunk in overtime? Not infrequently, it is a disputed call by a referee. Many fans, especially those from the Philadelphia area, are going to look back on […]
Read More
NewsOne Featured Video Sheryl Lee Ralph performs “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles at State Farm Stadium on February 12, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona. | Source: Rob Carr / Getty Predictably, conservatives were unhappy about “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” aka the “Black […]
Read More
Photo: Rob Carr (Getty Images) The 2023 Super Bowl was meant to celebrate football, two amazing Black QBs and Rihanna and, for most of the night, that’s what happened. CC Off English But during ESPN’s postgame show, veteran sportscaster Chris Berman made some appalling comments that raised the eyebrows of everyone who watched him recap […]
Read More
Forget Thanksgiving. Super Bowl Sunday is America’s true unleashing of its national id, the day the country gorges itself on beer and chicken wings, patriotism, pop culture, hero worship, machismo, fireworks, sanctioned violence and consumerist yearning. If you were watching on Sunday night — of course you were! — you know all this. But there […]
Read More
Sometimes, a team can win the regular season and lose the postseason. That’s what the Philadelphia Eagles learned on Sunday, when the Kansas City Chiefs and their hobbled yet transcendent quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, ripped the Lombardi Trophy out of their grasp and won their second Super Bowl title in four years. The Eagles were riding […]
Read More
Performing live for the first time in nearly four years, Rihanna returned to the stage on Sunday to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, running through a rapid-fire medley of her hits and making a major personal announcement without saying a word: A representative for the singer confirmed that she is pregnant. Clad in ruby […]
Read More
Super Bowl Sunday is akin to a national holiday, one of the few times of year that tens of millions of Americans do the same activity at the same time. By that standard, today may beat even Thanksgiving, given the variation in meal times. The Super Bowl is reliably the year’s most-watched broadcast, a status […]
Read More
“If you come to Grambling,” Robinson told Harris, “in four years, America will be ready for a Black quarterback.” During those four years, Harris closely followed the progress of other Black quarterbacks, often heading to the library on Monday mornings to research how they had played that weekend. Harris stood 6-foot-4 and worked since high […]
Read More
PHOENIX — It hasn’t been easy being a skeptic this past week, in this desert city, ahead of the biggest sporting event on the American calendar. Consider Damar Hamlin. The National Football League wasn’t about to let anyone forget him, especially not during the glitz-and-glam run-up to the Super Bowl. The young Buffalo Bills defensive […]
Read More
PHOENIX — Like all N.F.L. teams, the Eagles employ many exceptionally large men. But as they left their locker room ahead of the N.F.C. championship game against the San Francisco 49ers, they were led by a musician who stands just 5-foot-4. The artist, clad in a midnight-green No. 16 Eagles jersey and diamond chains, was […]
Read More PHOENIX — Like all N.F.L. teams, the Eagles employ many exceptionally large men. But as they left their locker room ahead of the N.F.C. championship game against the San Francisco 49ers, they were led by a musician who stands just 5-foot-4. The artist, clad in a midnight-green No. 16 Eagles jersey and diamond chains, was […]
Read More
On Oct. 1, 1975, when I was 14, my best friend and I went to the closed circuit broadcast of the epic, brutal third and final fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. We were in a crowded high school gym in Richland, Wash., watching the match on a large screen. I have vivid memories […]
Read More
WASHINGTON — To hear President Biden tell it, his wife is not merely a Philadelphia Eagles fan. She is, in Mr. Biden’s own words, “obnoxious” about her fandom and so much of a self-proclaimed “Philly girl” that if he wasn’t an Eagles fan, too, “I’d be sleeping alone.” “You all think I’m kidding,” he joked […]
Read More
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The wind was whipping like a blender working overtime on a margarita Thursday morning, and the more than 17,000 people bellied up to the 16th hole at the Phoenix Open acted as if it were last call. If you want cemetery-like quiet, kneel politely before the golf gods at the Masters’ “Amen […]
Read More
As last year’s Super Bowl kickoff grew near, the mobile sports book DraftKings reported it was taking 21,000 bets per minute. Mega-operators like DraftKings are able to offer as many props as Kornegay’s SuperBook Sports, if not more, and their customers have come to expect it. “We’re never going to be able to duplicate the […]
Read More
Photo: Jamie Schwaberow // Focus on Sport (Getty Images) If nothing else, Super Bowls were made for predictions and hot takes. So here’s mine: there’s never been a Super Bowl featuring two more accomplished quarterbacks facing off against each other this early in their careers—and they both just so happen to be Black. CC Off […]
Read More