Mac McClung proves the NBA Slam Dunk Contest doesn’t need stars, just passionate showmen
SAN FRANCISCO — The NBA Slam Dunk Contest contest needs to be saved. It needs the game’s stars to participate.How many ...
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Remembering Dikembe Mutombo: All-Star record setter and ‘phenomenal human being’
SAN FRANCISCO — There’s a shared skill among former NBA stars who played from 1991 to 2009. Many of them ...
How a Polish Harlem Globetrotter literally trotted the globe to become a megastar
(Editor’s note: Throughout the week, The Athletic highlighted the Harlem Globetrotters and their contributions to basketball, vision for entertainment and ...
Who are the Washington Generals? The Harlem Globetrotters’ archrival, and much more
Editor’s note: Throughout the week, The Athletic highlighted the Harlem Globetrotters and their contributions to basketball, vision for entertainment and ...
Warriors legends reunite for 3s, wisecracks and reflections ahead of NBA All-Star Weekend
SAN FRANCISCO — They are Walk TMC now. Chris Mullin has a bum left foot, Mitch Richmond rarely shoots a ...
Remembering Wilt Chamberlain’s 1 year with the Globetrotters: A ‘childhood dream’
Sonny Hill recalls a time when he and his childhood friend, Wilt Chamberlain, would go to the movies to watch ...
NFL’s progress with diversity in coaching ranks yet to translate to offensive coordinator
Chris Beatty didn’t know the number was zero.Until the Chicago Bears promoted Thomas Brown to interim offensive coordinator on Nov. ...
For women’s college basketball coaches, motherhood is no longer something to keep quiet
Arizona coach Adia Barnes had never given a more important halftime speech. The Wildcats were in their first national title ...
Football and social media: What next for players and clubs in a changing landscape?
Erling Haaland has posted only once on X in the past two weeks.The message was unremarkable and safe but notable ...
Super Bowl halftime shows ranked: Prince, Beyoncé, U2 — and Kendrick Lamar on deck
The Athletic has live coverage of Chiefs vs Eagles in Super Bowl LIX, and Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance.(Editor’s note: The ...
Exclusive: Hubie Brown on the end of his legendary NBA TV career
Hubie Brown is laughing. The 91-year-old NBA broadcaster very much enjoyed the question I just asked him:“If I had interviewed ...
Luka Dončić, Kareem, Shaq and others: Ranking the NBA’s all-time greatest trades
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NBA trade deadline. The Los Angeles Lakers have been involved in some of ...
The search for a high school basketball all-time scorer that time forgot
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Faint yellow with a blue screened-in entrance, the house on Cypress Street is squeezed in among the ...
Notre Dame’s Kate Koval is a rising star in college basketball and a daughter of war-torn Ukraine
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Through warmups and the game, the cell phone sat on the team’s bench.In the small gym ...
As Netflix stock surges, an ‘anti-ESPN’ sports strategy emerges
Jake Paul fighting Mike Tyson, the NFL on Christmas Day and a Super Bowl-level Beyoncé performance turned out to be ...
Marcus Freeman’s moment is significant for Black coaches: ‘It gives us validation’
Minutes after Notre Dame beat Georgia to clinch a berth in the College Football Playoff semifinals against Penn State earlier ...
Footballers’ shin pads – the piece of equipment some pros prefer not to wear
Michael Olise does not like shin pads.So much so that when the France winger was being brought on for Leroy ...
Milk and murder: The tragedy that overshadows Liverpool vs Accrington Stanley
Belmont Drive runs parallel to Rocky Lane, a noisy thoroughfare in Liverpool that blurs into West Derby Road, connecting the ...
“Se habla LIDOM”: How Peligro Sports fuels Dominican baseball passion in New York City
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — Once inside Peligro Sports, one thing above all else is clear: if you ever need a ...
Ilona Maher sprinkles her stardust on England – U.S. rugby icon’s new team has had to find a bigger home stadium
Asked if she felt tired after spending over an hour posing for pictures with hundreds of fans, Ilona Maher channels ...
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