• How RFK Jr. is shaping the conversation about autism and why advocates are pushing back

    How RFK Jr. is shaping the conversation about autism and why advocates are pushing back

    May 14, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... oh, they won't be able to play baseball. My son Eli runs track, a gold medalist, may I add, in track. He is a basketball player. I think he just recently told me "I'm signing him up for soccer and baseball this summer." So, like, he's thriving ...

  • A timeline of Diddy's career and legal troubles

    A timeline of Diddy's career and legal troubles

    May 05, 2025 07:33 PM EDT

    ... gets his start in the music business with an internship at Uptown Records in New York. Dec. 28, 1991: Nine people die at a celebrity basketball game promoted by Combs and the rapper Heavy D when thousands of fans try to get into a gym at the City College of ...

  • Puerto Rico hit with island-wide blackout as residents prepare for Easter weekend

    Puerto Rico hit with island-wide blackout as residents prepare for Easter weekend

    Apr 16, 2025 10:28 PM EDT

    ... system that serves the capital, San Juan, while scores of businesses including the biggest mall in the Caribbean were forced to close. Professional baseball and basketball games were cancelled as the hum of generators and smell of smoke filled the air. Traffic became snarled as police officers were deployed to ...

  • WATCH: Sanders, AOC deliver remarks in Missoula, MT as part of 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour

    WATCH: Sanders, AOC deliver remarks in Missoula, MT as part of 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour

    Apr 16, 2025 04:35 PM EDT

    ... to make a fundamental choice," Sanders told The Associated Press after his Salt Lake City rally that filled the 15,000-seat University of Utah basketball arena, with thousands more unable to get in. "Do they want these folks to be in the Democratic Party, or do they want to ...

  • Testimony to begin on landmark $2.8 billion NCAA settlement that could make seismic changes for college sports

    Testimony to begin on landmark $2.8 billion NCAA settlement that could make seismic changes for college sports

    Apr 07, 2025 03:20 PM EDT

    Hours before college basketball crowns its next champion, the future of college sports will be hanging in the balance in a California courtroom. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken's scheduled hearing Monday in a courtroom in Oakland is expected to be the last one before the changes will truly ...

  • Sports betting surge leads to rise in online harassment of elite college athletes

    Sports betting surge leads to rise in online harassment of elite college athletes

    Apr 06, 2025 09:40 PM EDT

    ... bettors. John Yang speaks with sports psychologist Brett Woods to learn more. ... John Yang: A good number of those watching today's NCAA women's basketball championship and tomorrow's men's championship will have some money riding on the outcomes. According to an American Gaming association estimate, more than ...

  • How Hugh Hayden transforms everyday objects into surreal sculptures

    How Hugh Hayden transforms everyday objects into surreal sculptures

    Mar 20, 2025 10:10 PM EDT

    ... Amna Nawaz: Artist Hugh Hayden takes everyday objects, from school desks to basketball hoops to cookware, and transforms them into something surreal. Special correspondent Jared Bowen of GBH Boston visits the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University for a look at how Hayden's work challenges our perceptions of ...

  • Who invented the March Madness bracket? New York bar and Kentucky postal worker stake claims

    Who invented the March Madness bracket? New York bar and Kentucky postal worker stake claims

    Mar 17, 2025 06:37 PM EDT

    ... horrible,” Haggerty said. “But if I did it, I think it would skyrocket right away.” Jody’s Club Forest remains a destination each March for basketball junkies who know of the bars’ role — was it really the first? Does it even matter? — in making betting pools and the art of ...

  • Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who bridged partisan gaps with quick wit, dies at age 93

    Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who bridged partisan gaps with quick wit, dies at age 93

    Mar 14, 2025 03:51 PM EDT

    ... law practice, where he worked for the next 19 years. He was elected to the Wyoming House in 1964 and served there until his election to the U.S. Senate in 1976. A football and basketball athlete at the University of Wyoming, Simpson fondly described politics as a "contact sport."

  • Remembering John Feinstein

    Remembering John Feinstein

    Mar 13, 2025 10:15 PM EDT

    ... want to take a moment to remember author, sportswriter and a frequent guest on our program, John Feinstein, who died just today. John wrote about basketball, football, golf, and other sports, much of the time as a columnist for The Washington Post. He also wrote more than 40 books, including ...