• Willie Mays, one of baseball's greatest and most beloved players, dies at 93

    Willie Mays, one of baseball's greatest and most beloved players, dies at 93

    Jun 19, 2024 02:38 PM EDT

    ... the same, playing catch with him and letting him sit in the dugout. Young Mays was so gifted an athlete that childhood friends swore that basketball, not baseball, was his best sport. By high school he was playing for the Birmingham Black Barons, and late in life would receive an ...

  • News Wrap: House Republicans vote to hold Garland in contempt of Congress

    News Wrap: House Republicans vote to hold Garland in contempt of Congress

    Jun 12, 2024 10:50 PM EDT

    ... close at a record for the third straight day. The S&P 500 also ended at a new high. And a passing of note. Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry West has died. A Los Angeles Lakers legend, West was also a literal icon. His silhouette is understood to be ...

  • NBA great Jerry West dies at 86

    NBA great Jerry West dies at 86

    Jun 12, 2024 02:08 PM EDT

    Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He was 86. West, nicknamed “Mr. Clutch ...

  • News Wrap: Supreme Court will hear Meta appeal over Cambridge Analytica scandal lawsuit

    News Wrap: Supreme Court will hear Meta appeal over Cambridge Analytica scandal lawsuit

    Jun 10, 2024 10:50 PM EDT

    ... in four years, when four years comes back around, I can be there. Geoff Bennett: Clark has helped draw countless new fans to women's basketball in her budding pro career and the WNBA is enjoying its best season in decades. The league is boasting its highest attendance in 26 ...

  • Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86

    Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86

    May 31, 2024 10:59 PM EDT

    ... began his political career,” Mrs. Robinson wrote in the foreword to “A Game of Character,” a memoir by her son, formerly the head men’s basketball coach at Oregon State University. “My feeling, however, was that I could visit periodically without actually moving in and still be there for the ...

  • News Wrap: At least 2,000 killed in Papua New Guinea landslide

    News Wrap: At least 2,000 killed in Papua New Guinea landslide

    May 27, 2024 10:45 PM EDT

    ... event was led by surviving World War II service members ahead of the 80th anniversary of D-Day next month. And a passing of note. Basketball legend Bill Walton has died after a long battle with cancer. Walton won two championships at UCLA before going on to win two more ...

  • Bill Walton, Hall of Fame player who became a star broadcaster, dies at 71

    Bill Walton, Hall of Fame player who became a star broadcaster, dies at 71

    May 27, 2024 07:11 PM EDT

    ... ages. “It’s very hard to put into words what he has meant to UCLA’s program, as well as his tremendous impact on college basketball," UCLA coach Mick Cronin said Monday. "Beyond his remarkable accomplishments as a player, it’s his relentless energy, enthusiasm for the game and unwavering ...

  • What the historic $2.8 billion settlement to pay NCAA players means for college sports

    What the historic $2.8 billion settlement to pay NCAA players means for college sports

    May 24, 2024 10:50 PM EDT

    ... the athletes or if they want to pay something less than that, and then that is divided up. Obviously, the football players, the men's basketball player and probably increasingly women's basketball players will get the majority of this, but then, even within the team, what sort of parameters ...

  • News Wrap: Biden plans to designate Kenya as a major non-NATO U.S. ally

    News Wrap: Biden plans to designate Kenya as a major non-NATO U.S. ally

    May 23, 2024 10:50 PM EDT

    ... the Dow so far this year. The Nasdaq lost 77 points. The S&P 500 shed nearly 42 points. And the Women's National Basketball Association is going international. The league announced today that it will expand to Toronto, its first franchise outside of the U.S. The WNBA ...

  • PEN America, facing criticism over its response to the war in Gaza, gathers for annual gala

    PEN America, facing criticism over its response to the war in Gaza, gathers for annual gala

    May 16, 2024 06:21 PM EDT

    ... amp; Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group and Macmillan — are listed as sponsors, along with organizations ranging from Bloomberg and Barnes & Noble to the National Basketball Association and the David Geffen Foundation. “The test of our partnerships is whether we can find a common cause, not whether we hold every ...