By Vincent R. Crawford Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Arizona Informant More than 100 NCAA Division I nominees competed for five spots on...
[ESPN.COM] SANTA CLARA, Calif. — There was nothing different and nothing exotic about what the Denver Broncos’ defense did to Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers...
[THINKPROGRESS] Cam Newton has been the talk of the NFL this season. As the quarterback of the Carolina Panthers, he led his team to the Super...
By G. Napier Barnes III Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Arizona Informant The more things change, the more they remain the same. As...
By Dr. Valerie Wardlaw NNPA News Wire Sports Reporter PASEDENA, Calif. – The sixth-ranked Stanford Cardinal handily defeated the fifth-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes, 45 – 16 in...
Compiled from Gatorade.com In its 31st year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA Today High School Sports,...
[YAHOO SPORTS] Kobe Bryant’s announcement that he will retire at the end of this NBA season captured the basketball world’s attention, if not its surprise, on...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Contributing Writer Sugar Ray Leonard had no doubt that he’d defeat Roberto Duran when the two warriors squared off in a...
By Shannen Hill Special to the NNPA News Wire from the L.A. Watts Times Basketball player Chris Paul brought tears to the eyes of a group...
[YAHOO] Debi Thomas’ life isn’t what it used to be. The former Olympic figure skater and physician made history when she became the first African-American athlete...
By Vincent R. Crawford Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Arizona Informant “When I saw that this crew (led by referee Howard Horton Jr.)...
By Erika R. Whitehead Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – It may or may not have been the most delicate of phrasing, but President Obama made...
[ESPN.COM] – Flip Saunders, who tallied more than 1,000 victories over a 35-year coaching career that included successful stops with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Detroit Pistons,...
(USA Today) – The partnership between Nike and Michael Jordan has grown into the richest deal in sports marketing history — disputed history, it turns out,...
By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Fresh off a Thursday night showcase against the Washington NFL team,...
CHICAGO (USA Today) — Derrick Rose was both unwavering and defiant on Monday afternoon when addressing the sexual assault allegations that clouded his offseason. “I will be...
(USA Today) – With the ink barely dry on its federal appeal to reinstate Tom Brady’s suspension for “more probabl(y) than not” being “generally aware” of...
MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (New York Times) — Students and families at Maplewood-Richmond Heights High School are looking forward to homecoming, the highlight of the autumn school calendar...
Adam Kilgore, THE WASHINGTON POST PITTSBURGH, Pa. (The Washington Post) – As a general principle, professional football players do not regard other professional football players...
Mike Freeman, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com) – Look anywhere in the NFL world, and you see gloss. You see shine. You see hype. During an...
(Deadspin) – Good news broke today, and that news is that Switzerland has opened a criminal investigation against Sepp Blatter, the current FIFA president who just...
NEW YORK (ESPN) — Tina Charles didn’t sleep well before the New York Liberty’s game on Sunday in Washington, D.C. She was also somewhat anxious before...
STEVE MEGARGEE, AP Sports Writer KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Many of the questions that surrounded Southeastern Conference quarterbacks before the season remain unanswered. In fact, there...
BEN WALKER, AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball people tell a wonderful story about Yogi Berra and the most famous home run in history....
(ESPN) – Two Texas high school football players who hit a referee in a Sept. 4 game at the direction of the team’s assistant coach will...
