Category: basketball

Film Review: ‘Slamma Jamma’

We live in some truly turbulent times, where the loosening of morals, the celebration of depravity, and the glorification of hyper-violence have captured the attention of many souls. It almost seems as if every year for the past decade or so, major film production companies are putting out increasingly degenerate products in an effort to…


Veteran Pau Gasol Announces Retirement From Basketball

MADRID—Wishing his “older brother” Kobe Bryant could be there by his side, Pau Gasol finally put an end to a basketball career that went “way beyond my dreams and expectations.” Gasol announced his retirement from basketball on Tuesday after a career that lasted more than two decades and earned him two NBA titles and a…


Warriors’ Wiggins Gets COVID-19 Vaccine After NBA Threatens to Bar Star From Games

Golden States Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins accepted the COVID-19 vaccine after his request for religious exemption was denied last month and he would have been barred from playing home games if he didn’t get vaccinated. Without a vaccine passport, Wiggins faced the possibility of not being able to enter the Golden State’s home building at…


Double Amputee Lost His Legs at Age 6—But Then He Became an Athlete, a Mechanic, and a Dad

Kacey McAllister was just 6 years old when tragedy struck, and forever changed the direction of his life. While visiting relatives in Utah, the boy and his parents, from Wyoming, were crossing a road when he heard his parents tell him, “There’s two cars coming and a truck,” he later recalled. After the two cars…


Spanish Club Welcomes Afghan Wheelchair Player Who Fled Home

MADRID—The captain of Afghanistan’s wheelchair basketball team has found a new home—and a new club—in Spain’s Basque Country. Nilofar Bayat, who fled Afghanistan with the help of the Spanish government after the Taliban took over this month, will be living and playing in the city of Bilbao. The Bidaideak Bilbao club said Thursday that Bayat…


Loyola Chicago Basketball Pioneer Jerry Harkness Dies at 81

Jerry Harkness was inspired by Jackie Robinson to take up the game of basketball. He ended up becoming a civil rights trailblazer in his own right. Following a path paved by Major League Baseball’s first black player, Harkness led Loyola Chicago to a barrier-breaking national championship in basketball in 1963 and a was pioneer well…


US Beats Japan in Women’s Basketball, Wins 7th Straight Olympic Gold

TOKYO—Team USA extended a historic run of championships in Olympic women’s basketball on Sunday, winning the gold against home team Japan in their first-ever medal match. The United States’ women earned their seventh-straight gold in the 90–75 victory at the Saitama Super Arena, north of Tokyo. Brittney Griner, who plays for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury,…


Team USA Women’s Basketball to Play for Gold After Semi-Final Victory

The U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team is dominating this year’s event once again and is one victory away from a seventh-straight gold medal at the Tokyo Games after the team defeated Serbia in the semi-finals. Brittney Griner of Texas and Breanna Stewart of New York had a double-double that helped Team USA in beating the Serbians…


Doncic, Slovenia Move Into Olympic Basketball Semifinals

SAITAMA, Japan—Luka Doncic and Slovenia need one win for a medal in their Olympic basketball debut. Wins are all Doncic ever gets when he wears his country’s uniform. Doncic had 20 points, 11 assists, and eight rebounds, and Slovenia beat Germany 94–70 on Tuesday in the opening game of the men’s quarterfinals. Zoran Dragic got…


Australia Stuns US Women 70–67 in Pre-Olympic Exhibition

LAS VEGAS—Breanna Stewart and her U.S. Olympic teammates aren’t panicking, even though they’ve lost consecutive games for the first time in a decade. Two days after losing to a team of WNBA All-Stars, the Americans fell to Australia 70–67 on Friday in a pre-Olympic exhibition game. “There’s a standard and the standard is winning and…