Coronavirus shuts down baseball, Opening Day delayed by at least two weeks
By Dennis Young, NY Daily News
Major League Baseball announced a complete shutdown of games Thursday.
“MLB has decided to suspend Spring Training games …
Coronavirus cancels March Madness completely
By Dennis Young, NY Daily News
The NCAA has canceled the men’s and women’s Division I basketball tournaments because of the coronavirus pandemic. The
Big East finally cancels tournament after allowing St. John’s, Creighton to play first half at the Garden
St. John’s played Georgetown on Wednesday night in front of a sparse Madison Square Garden crowd impacted by coronavirus concerns.(Kieran Lynch/New York Daily News)…
Kobe Bryant was no rapist
GUANGZHOU, CHINA – AUG 2. 2015:NBA basketball player Bryant Kobe of Los Angeles Lakers makes faces during a promotional event at a store in …
The NBA’s Spencer Dinwiddie Has Something to Sell You: His Contract
Brooklyn Nets point guard Spencer Dinwiddie wants to sell digital shares of his contract. Will the league allow it?
Photo: Bleacher Report
By Bryan Hood, Robb Report
NBA players have been investing their money in businesses for decades, but this year one player …
World-Record Holder Keni Harrison Focused On 60m Hurdles in 113th NYRR Millrose Games
World-Record holder Keni Harrison will make her Armory debut in February at the 113th NYRR Millrose Games. Photo courtesy of USATF
She Will …
Enriqueta Basilio, first woman to light Olympic cauldron, dies at 71
Enriqueta Basilio, who at the 1968 Mexico City Games became the first woman to light an Olympic cauldron, died Saturday at age 71, according …
Allyson Felix: World Athletics Championships record-breaker on life-changing year
By Tom Reynolds, BBC Sport in Doha
Becoming the most successful athlete in World Championships history – as she did in Doha – would …
Althea Gibson: The pioneering champion America forgot
On Monday, a bronze sculpture of Gibson, the first black player to win a Grand Slam, will be unveiled outside Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows in New York - the world's biggest tennis arena named after another pioneering African-American. These two tributes stand as testaments to obstacles overcome, during a time when the United States was politically and socially rooted in racial segregation.
Gibson was the first black player to win a tennis Grand Slam
By Jonathan Jurejko, BBC Sport in New York
“Everything was white. The …