The 2026-27 women's college basketball season is underway, and the outlook after the first two weeks of play is promising…
Melvin Booker yearned to wear his father’s old No. ) High School boys’ varsity basketball team as a sophomore in 1987. Unfortunately, he was a powerless underclassman, and a senior teammate already…
As a teenager playing for Sweden's national soccer team, Yolanda Thomas looked across the pitch and saw someone who would change her life: A woman who looked like her was coaching England…
She ended it as a WNBA champion…
Golden State Warriors forward Gui Santos now knows his mother knew best. Five years ago, the G League proved much harder than the skinny 19-year-old Brazilian expected. Arriving in America alone…
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NEW ORLEANS — Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders made the most important start of his NFL career on Sunday and responded by turning in his most impressive performance. The Browns lost to…
Yet another example after Sunday: the Chicago Bears. Following last week's impressive road victory over the Seattle Seahawks, the Bears were the talk of the league…
This season, Andscape will document the ups and downs of this Black quarterback fraternity and how each of its members is carrying their specific burden of proof. Until the Chicago Bears made Caleb…
It’s become a buzzphrase for a while now, as analysts are asked to spout predictions faster than ever. Undoubtedly, in the process, we’ll be wrong. We don’t even have to tell you, because someone is…
– A frustrated and fatigued Jamahl Mosley looked like he could use several cups of café au lait on the morning of Oct. 22, following a nail-biting, season-opening loss for his New Orleans Pelicans…
Memphis Grizzlies big man Isaiah Stewart shows Andscape senior NBA writer Marc J. " Stewart grows mangoes, papayas and passion fruit, helps with the work and spends time on the land with his wife and…
SAN FRANCISCO — As confetti fell from the rafters of Chase Center on Saturday night, tears of gratitude streamed down Golden State Valkyries guard Veronica Burton’s face as she celebrated winning her…
Somewhere beyond the clouds was Spain, a country far from everything he knew, where a new life awaited. “I was scared,” Diop remembered…
In a matter of months, Jeremy Sochan has gone from playing for the 2026 NBA champions to starting over in the G League…
Here’s the scene, if you choose to direct it: Angel Reese walks off the court at San Francisco’s Chase Center. The WNBA Finals’ winner-take-all Game 7 has just ended…
The Reebok Question Mid sneaker, which former NBA star Allen Iverson debuted as a rookie in 1996, is returning with upgraded performance features. On Nov. 10, the Reebok Question Mid Recoded releases…
DENVER — A blowout loss followed by a fourth-quarter collapse in consecutive road games has sent the Kansas City Chiefs into a tailspin, and what comes next for the team of the decade is anyone’s…
The better question is whether the W actually needs a face in order to prosper…
Lamar Jackson entered the NFL like a powerful river…
Roster changes and rising talent are setting the stage for a competitive basketball season for historically Black colleges and universities. Returning standouts look to build on last year’s success…
On “Off That,” an otherwise throwaway cut from his 2009 album The Blueprint 3, JAŸ-Z laid out a symbolic maintenance program for sustained greatness: “I'm on a practice field runnin' two-a-days / So…
It’s probably not journalistically professional to say this, but I’ve been praying for Isaiah Rashad. Not just a one-time prayer, either…
— On Tuesday, Ben Simmons’ surgically repaired right Achilles tendon was protected in a walking boot as he moved around slowly on a knee scooter…
At 5 years old, if Tuskegee University guard Joirdyn Smith grew too quiet at a family gathering, her family knew the one place to look for her: her grandmother's or mother's closet. From trying on…
Before basketball led him down a different path, Indiana Pacers forward Pascal Siakam attended seminary school to fulfill his father’s wish for him to become a priest. Since becoming an NBA All-Star…
This was the fifth consecutive defeat for Philadelphia, but the team and the league may have lost something far more significant during this stretch: Credibility and trust…
With the NBA back, the NFL in full swing and the WNBA playoffs underway, narrowing October's top looks down to 10 was a challenge. You’ll see several suits ahead, but some of these casual ensembles…
The Seattle Seahawks handed the Kansas City Chiefs their first loss of the season Sunday night, cruising to a 20-3 victory at Lumen Field and leaving the Minnesota Vikings as the NFL’s lone…
When you're the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, the spotlight is big and bright…
Miles spent much of his early life honing the skills that would lead to a 16-year career in the NBA. But throughout that journey, there was always a photographer in Miles’s soul. Eventually…
NEW ORLEANS — All 6-foot-6 and 277 pounds of Zion Williamson accidentally yet violently knocked Tyrese Haliburton into the air before he collided hard into the scorer’s table Wednesday night. After…
HONOLULU — Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry has spoken to former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and former Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki about their legacies with their…
The NFL may have decided not to punish the Philadelphia Eagles, but the team still fumbled Jalen Hurts’ health. When the Philadelphia starting quarterback called his calf injury a "very unique…
Life, like Tyrese Maxey, comes at you fast. “I feel like I grew up in Philly,” the Philadelphia 76ers' point guard told Andscape. “I got here at 19…
As crazy as it might sound, Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard missed all the haters, the critiques and even the challenges that came from losing during the first 12 seasons of his career…
1 pick in the 2026 NBA draft was announced by commissioner Adam Silver in June, Darryn Peterson’s confidence wouldn’t allow him to think anyone else would be picked before him. Months later, the No…
This season, Andscape will document the ups and downs of this Black quarterback fraternity and how each of them is carrying their specific burden of proof…
In a game obsessed with launch angles, exit velocity and home runs, Simpson is making his mark by putting the ball in play, hitting for average and using elite speed to create havoc on the basepaths…
Veronica Burton has helped the Golden State Valkyries navigate a postseason of franchise firsts , from their first playoff victory to their first series win. Now, they turn their attention to the…
For the past three seasons, football fans have become accustomed to hearing praise lavished on Brian Flores for his work as defensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings. The "Brian Flores Defense”…
On the afternoon of Game 3 of the WNBA semifinals last week, Atlanta Dream guard Rhyne Howard warmed up on a stationary bike just outside the visitors' tunnel of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New…
SALT LAKE CITY — As loud as it was in Madison Square Garden when De'Aaron Fox’s layup was blocked in the final seconds of Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals, the criticism on sports talk platforms and…
Black Derby Collective didn’t expect to be this good this soon. Founded barely a year ago, the all-Black women’s roller derby team rarely gets to practice because its skaters live all over the United…
— While the Los Angeles Rams remain confident, their march to potential greatness is proceeding slowly…
Robert Covington remembers what it's like to experience NBA All-Star Weekend, having competed in the 2021 Skills Challenge…
The Sacramento Kings didn’t ease Simmons into his return, placing him directly into the starting lineup of Saturday's preseason game…
The most important of both will run through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday. Yet neither No. 2 Georgia nor No. m. ET, ABC) will call the plays that matter beyond the field…
Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young has carried a burden of proof since he began playing competitive sports…
NEW YORK — During a stoppage in Game 2 of the New York Liberty’s first-round WNBA playoff series against the Minnesota Lynx last week, the jumbotron showed Liberty legend Tina Charles, prompting a…
SAN FRANCISCO — Basketball trainer Ben Perkins was working out Quentin Grimes on a July morning in Houston when he suddenly stopped passing the ball upon seeing a stunning ESPN alert on his Apple…
Joyce Wrice’s 2021 debut album, Overgrown, wrestled with the messy negotiations of one's 20s: loving the idea of someone before seeing them clearly, knowing you deserve better but still having to…
North Carolina A&T had been Louis-Verrett’s home for many years. She previously served as an associate athletic director at the university from 2011-17, overseeing compliance and department…
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Jacoby Brissett of the Arizona Cardinals and Jameis Winston of the New York Giants represent 19 years of NFL experience as starting and backup quarterbacks. They met at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, and…
Garland wanted to aid the city where several of his family members and friends still live…
— New York Giants quarterback Jameis Winston didn’t come into this NFL season with any particular burden, aside from the challenge of backing up Jaxson Dart and being prepared to step in if needed…
As red smoke filled the air after the inaugural match for Tuskegee University's new men’s soccer team, head coach Matthew Tarpley and his players signed photos, crimson-and-gold T-shirts and the game…
Last week, Christine Wonsley stood at a podium and tearfully pleaded to find answers for the death of her son, Nolan Wells…
Never before, though, was that arena Xfinity Mobile in Philadelphia , and never before was that jersey the 76ers' red, white and blue…