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On Friday, the University of South Carolina announced that women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley signed a 7-year contract worth $22.4 million. The contact will take her through the 2027-28 season. The contract makes Staley the highest-paid Black head coach in her sport. She is now also one of the highest-paid women’s basketball coaches …

Following accusations of emails that he wrote over a 10-year span that contained racist, misogynistic, and anti-gay rhetoric, Las Vegas Raiders head coach, Jon Gruden, has resigned. “I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction,” Gruden said in a statement Monday night. “Thank you to all …

Kyrie Irving is standing firm in his decision not to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and it has now cost him the home games. Brooklyn Nets head coach Steve Nash confirmed that Irving wouldn’t play at their home stadium because he has not received the COVID-19 vaccination. Nash says that while …

Eighteen former NBA players were indicted in federal court Thursday for defrauding the basketball league’s health and welfare benefit plan out of about $4 million. Among those who allegedly participated in the scam, which was carried out from at least 2017 to 2020, includes former Nets player Terrence Williams, the …

Atlanta Dream All-Star Courtney Williams is apologizing after being seen throwing hands outside an Atlanta day club earlier this year. In May, the WNBA player was recorded alongside her teammate, Crystal Bradford, engaging in a full-fledged altercation in front of a local food truck while squaring up, punching, and going …

ESPN’s Sage Steele will be taking a break from her usual duties after she made some controversial comments. The Sports Center anchor appeared on a third-party podcast where she made comments about Barack Obama’s racial background, ESPN’s coronavirus policy, and even suggested that certain female journalists face harassment because of …

The start of the NBA’s regular season is three weeks away, and the league is taking a hard stance with its COVID–19 protocols to ensure no interruption in their game schedule. The league has announced that unvaccinated players who are forced to miss games due to the executive orders governing …

LeBron James says he’s vaccinated, and but it’s not his job to convince others to do the same. Yesterday at Laker’s media day, LeBron discussed his thoughts on the COVID-19 vaccine, telling reporters that he was initially skeptical of the shots but chose to get vaccinated after doing his homework. …

NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reportedly told Rolling Stone that NBA players who are not vaccinated should no longer be on the team. “The NBA should insist that all players and staff are vaccinated or remove them from the team,” said Abdul-Jabbar. “There is no room for players who are willing to …

According to TMZ Sports, Oscar De La Hoya is offering Floyd Mayweather $100M if he accepts to fight him this year. TMZ allegedly caught up with Hoya and his girlfriend Holly Sonders to ask him about beating Covid-19, but all he wanted to talk about was getting in the ring. …

Sha’Carri Richardson shot back at retired Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt for saying that the young sprinter needed to train harder. On Sunday, the 21-year-old shared a screenshot on her Instagram Story, which showed a fan slamming people for failing to give Richardson words of wisdom directly but continuing to speak …

Usain Bolt had some straightforward words of advice for American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson: shut up and train. The eight-time Olympic gold medallist believes that 21-year-old Richardson needs to back up her trash-talking on the track.  “I would tell Sha’Carri to train harder and to be focused and not say too …

Carmelo Anthony appeared on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah Tuesday to promote his memoir “Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised.” The focus of the conversation was mainly on Anthony and his new book, but it soon shifted to his new NBA chapter with the Los Angeles Lakers. During the interview, Anthony shared how …

Former NBA player Kwame Brown went on a rant about Russell Westbrook’s choice of fashion. In the now-viral video, he raised concerns about the Lakers star’s sexuality, as well as the NBA’s current “celebrity culture.” While struggling to pronounce Westbrook’s last name, Brown continued on his rant while using racial slurs.  He said, …

Legendary New York Yankee Derek Jeter was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday as part of the class of 2020. The MLB was forced to put off the ceremony amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The four-person class would have been joined by the 2021 inductees, but none were elected …