A New York high school senior went from zero to hero in seconds on Saturday after missing a free throw that he thought may have cost his team a championship game only to turn around and make a desperate Hail Mary toss from 70-feet out to sink a basket that gave his team the game.
A boy’s basketball team from suburban Cincinnati was suspended from a youth league for featuring racist slogans on the backs of their jerseys, a report says.
A young Kansas City man now says he is sorry for impulsively punching a high school basketball referee in the head after the ref ruled against his sister during a high school girl’s basketball game.
Thursday on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed,” analyst Chris Broussard reacted to LaVar Ball reportedly hiring an agent to help his sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, get signed to play basketball overseas. The outspoken father removed LiAngelo from UCLA while he served a suspension in his
President Donald Trump accepted the thanks from three UCLA basketball players after they were released from China for shoplifting.
“I had a great conversation with President Xi,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on the trip back from Asia. “He was terrific, and they’re working on it right now, and hopefully everything is going to work out.”
Three freshman UCLA Bruins basketball players were reportedly arrested on Tuesday for allegedly shoplifting sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou while they were in China for the Pac-12 China Game.
Some schools in Idaho are crying rotten potatoes when it comes to athletics. Recent decisions on the postseason eligibility of certain student athletes has left many scratching their heads.
The NBA’s Golden State Warriors decided to honor the NBA’s rules and stand for the performance of the national anthem in their preseason opener on Saturday.
San Antonio Spurs basketball coach Gregg Popovich claimed in an interview that white people are privileged and should be made to feel “uncomfortable.”
Former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire, who became the most famous name to join Israel’s basketball league when he signed with Hapoel Jerusalem last year, will not play for the team next season, the team said Sunday.
After former FBI director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a Newsweek writer was curious about whether the 6-foot-8 Comey could actually dunk a basketball.
The tax-payer funded BBC on Thursday claimed that new rules allowing women to wear a hijab during basketball matches represent “a big step forward in women’s sport”.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is preparing to bring an international program to Israel this summer in what will mark the league’s first official visit to the Jewish state.
Wednesday, Chicago’s United Center hosted the top high school basketball players across the country to compete against each other in the McDonald’s All-American game. After the game, a large brawl broke out inside the United Center. Security eventually broke up
A California high school basketball player has stunned the sports world with his amazing feat on Tuesday, when he scored a whopping 92 points in a single game.
Basketball players suffer an array of injuries on the hardwood ranging from bumps, bruises, pulled muscles and even broken bones. But one player’s injury was more gruesome than all those combined when his eyeball popped out of its socket during a game.
USA Basketball director Jerry Colangelo refuses to apologize for America’s dominance on the hardwood.
American basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire said he decided to leave the NBA to play for Hapoel Jerusalem for ideological rather than financial reasons.
Carmelo Anthony, the elder statesman of the U.S. men’s basketball team, says it’s time to “move on” from the reports that three members of the team were caught visiting a local house of prostitution in Rio during the earliest days of the 2016 Summer Games.
TEL AVIV – Retired NBA forward Amar’e Stoudemire has reportedly closed a deal to play with Hapoel Jerusalem basketball team, a team he co-owns.
After initially sticking to its rules and fining players and teams for violating uniform rules by wearing t-shirts in support of the violence-prone Black Lives Matter movement, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has now bowed to pressure from players and reversed its decision to levy the fines.
[LANGUAGE WARNING] Two men in Houston, TX now face criminal charges after a short video of the two playing basketball on a busy roadway went viral on Instagram, says a KHOU report. Edward Gonzales, 25, has been charged with obstructing
Sarah Palin swatted Ted Cruz’s decision to name a runningmate, writing, “It’s smarter to actually put the ball through the HOOP before you claim victory.”
Immigration officials in Windsor, Canada, have arrested an illegal immigrant from Africa who has been playing basketball for a local Catholic high school for the past six months. Authorities suspect the immigrant is a 30-year-old man, and not a teenager.
The NBA is reporting a $93 million payroll short fall as the salary cap is set to rise to $92 million, reports say.
On Tuesday the NCAA announced it had inked an eight-year deal with CBS and the Turner cable network to broadcast the NCAA Tournament all the way through the 2032 season.
CBS Sports reports: Stephen Curry has basically fetishized long 3-pointers. We always liked them, but they weren’t this entire sub-genre of basketball idealism the way they are now. What’s more, Curry’s now thought of whenever any player hits a long 3-pointer,
TEL AVIV – Former NBA star Nate Robinson’s TV interview was interrupted when a shirtless bicyclist approached the basketball player to challenge him to a game of one-on-one. Robinson, who forwent both his NBA and NFL dreams to play basketball for
Riverside University High School (Milwaukee, WI) junior guard Melvin Lee is listed at 5’5″ 150 pounds. Although considered small for the sport of basketball, Lee showed his lack of height cannot stop him from getting to the rim. On this particular play, the
A 14-year-old Wisconsin basketball player is recovering after a freak accident on the court left her impaled by a floorboard, according to a report by Fox 6 Now. The girl was sliding on the court after bumping into an opponent and
The University of Louisville has announced a self-imposed postseason ban for its basketball program after months of allegations that coaching staff hired nude dancers and prostitutes to give sexual favors to players and recruits.
Basketball has become a staple on Martin Luther King Day. Every year multiple NBA games are played throughout the day in which we honor the amazing civil rights leader. In the Philadelphia area there’s another tradition that focuses on Reverend King and hoops, all while helping to feed the hungry.
Fans, and Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes, criticize the University of Utah for putting its basketball rivalry with Brigham Young on hiatus.
In the latest episode of “The Big Podcast,” host and former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal was asked by a listener if he would let President Barack Obama score in a game of one-on-one. Shaq said not only would he not
Three basketball players at a Tennessee high school have been accused of the rape and aggravated assault of a 15-year-old teammate after the teen collapsed following a hazing incident, authorities say.
Stephon Marbury didn’t enjoy as much success in the NBA that he’d hoped, but becoming a member of the Beijing Ducks has brought him much more acclaim. In fact, he’s become so famous there that a museum dedicated to his career is set to open in China’s leading city.
A Mississippi woman now faces felony assault charges after punching and knocking unconscious her daughter’s basketball coach during an argument after an away game.
Per a report by Columbus, MS CBS affiliate WCBI, a Mississippi high school girls basketball coach was hospitalized Thursday night after she was attacked by a parent. Hamilton (MS) High coach Sue Verner was “knocked out cold” by Heather Thompson, 36, and taken
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant announced his retirement from basketball effective at the end of the 2015-2016 campaign, saying that “this season is all I have left to give.”
