Via Politico, a look at how - at the Republican National Convention in 1968 - Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned [...]
Via SI.com, a report on how South Sudan, the world's newest nation, is set to play in the Paris Olympics this summer, thanks to a visionary two-time All-Star and refugee:
Last September, as the celebration picked up steam [...]
July
2,
2024
Via NPR, a report on a new documentary that highlights the WNBA's off-court player activism:
Know how you can tell if women’s sports has finally broken into the American mainstream consciousness? When your 82-year-old [...]
Via Medium, a reminder of Kobe Bryant's posthumous assist to women's basketball:
I was supposed to be catching up on grading my sophomore students’ research papers.
I grabbed a SLAM basketball magazine and a [...]
June
20,
2024
As we celebrate Juneteenth, a reminder that - following the murder of George Floyd - the WNBA star Natasha Cloud penned the following piece that emphasized the power athletes have to drive social change. A must-read.
To [...]
June
14,
2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how the NBA has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to cultivate an immense potential fan base on the continent and develop future stars:
On an outdoor [...]