Basketball (College)
What’s Next for LeBron James Jr.?
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — As LeBron James sat on a folding chair in the corner of a recreation-center basketball court last week, he often appeared to be in a state of agita. There was James, edging onto the court repeatedly to check the scoreboard and the clock above him. Or chomping on an apple and […]
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Pretty in Any Color: Women in Basketball Make the Style Rules
W.N.B.A. players, with a maximum base salary of about $230,000, earn far less than their millionaire counterparts in the N.B.A., making marketing dollars even more important. The W.N.B.A. has a pool of $1 million that it must spend on marketing deals for players, and each team has to spend between $50,000 and $100,000 per year […]
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The Day the Supreme Court Crashed the Title IX Party
But Friday hummed with sadness. By taking an ax to Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that nearly 50 years ago guaranteed women the right to abortion, the Supreme Court demolished a signal of freedom in the battle for gender equality — freedom that helped female athletes achieve glory that many now take for granted. […]
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N.B.A. Draft Preview: A Deep Field Could Yield Surprise Stars
When the Orlando Magic hand their draft card to N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver, on Thursday night at Barclays Center, they’ll settle a debate that has raged in draft circles for the better part of a year: Who should be the No. 1 pick? The front-runner is Gonzaga’s Chet Holmgren, a rail-thin but nail-tough seven-footer who […]
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C. Vivian Stringer, Celebrated Basketball Coach, Is Retiring
C. Vivian Stringer, the Hall of Fame women’s basketball coach at Rutgers University who first commanded a college sideline in 1971 and became one of her sport’s premier defensive minds, said Saturday that she would retire in September. The first Black coach to win at least 1,000 Division I basketball games, Stringer, 74, has long […]
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W.N.B.A. Draft: Kentucky’s Rhyne Howard Goes No. 1 to Dream
The Atlanta Dream, looking for a versatile player to help rebuild their roster, selected guard Rhyne Howard from the University of Kentucky as the No. 1 pick in the W.N.B.A. draft on Monday at Spring Studios in New York. Ahead of the draft, Dream General Manager Dan Padover said the team was looking for a […]
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Final Fours in the Same City? Not Anytime Soon.
It also argued that there was “no realistic way to obtain the same level of corporate sponsorship and promotional synergies at a separate women’s championship in a separate city,” given the N.C.A.A.’s assorted contractual arrangements, and said that the “overwhelming majority” of women’s players it surveyed about the possibility of a blended site supported the […]
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North Carolina Ends St. Peter’s Dream Season
No MAAC team had won an N.C.A.A. tournament game since 2009, when Siena beat Ohio State. But on a Thursday in Indianapolis, St. Peter’s turned a night of skillful shooting, including 18 points from the free-throw line, into a victory over Kentucky. Then came a second-round win over Murray State. On Friday night in Philadelphia, […]
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N.C.A.A. Women’s Tournament: Creighton Upsets Iowa State in Round of 16
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Creighton took down a No. 6 seed, Colorado. It defeated second-seeded Iowa. Now it has become the rare No. 10 seed to reach the round of 8. Creighton delivered its third consecutive upset by beating the No. 4 seed Iowa State, 76-68, on Friday night in the N.C.A.A. women’s tournament. The Bluejays […]
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