• WATCH: Federal grand jury indicts 18 former NBA players for defrauding health care plan

    WATCH: Federal grand jury indicts 18 former NBA players for defrauding health care plan

    Oct 07, 2021 03:21 PM EDT

    ... averaged 10.7 points per game with six different teams. Miles, the No. 3 pick in the 2000 draft, averaged 10.1 points per game and played with four different franchises. Associated Press Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds is based in Miami. AP reporter Jennifer Peltz contributed reporting from New York.

  • R&B superstar R. Kelly convicted in sex trafficking trial

    R&B superstar R. Kelly convicted in sex trafficking trial

    Sep 27, 2021 07:37 PM EDT

    ... call him “Daddy,” expected to jump and kiss him anytime he walked into a room, and to cheer only for him when he played pickup basketball games in which they said he was a ball hog. The accusers alleged that they also were ordered to sign nondisclosure forms and were ...

  • Boston's changing demographics on display in mayoral race dominated by women of color

    Boston's changing demographics on display in mayoral race dominated by women of color

    Sep 13, 2021 10:35 PM EDT

    ... of that history includes deep racism. When I was growing up in this area, one of my childhood heroes was Bill Russell, one the great basketball players with the Boston Celtics. He would write years later in a memoir with bitterness of his experience as a Black man here, calling ...

  • U.S. gives 1st public look inside base housing Afghans

    U.S. gives 1st public look inside base housing Afghans

    Sep 10, 2021 08:20 PM EDT

    ... at the base while they undergo medical and security checks before being resettled in the United States. On Friday, Afghan children with soccer balls and basketballs played outside large white tents. One young girl was still wearing dirty clothing. The U.S. government spent two weeks building what it calls ...

  • College athletes say ability to profit off their fame has been a 'long time coming'

    College athletes say ability to profit off their fame has been a 'long time coming'

    Sep 02, 2021 10:30 PM EDT

    ... their NIL rights gives them a chance to pay for current expenses, but also potentially build themselves a nest egg for when they get out of school and are starting out as young professionals. John Yang: And more than just big-name football and basketball players are poised to benefit.

  • WATCH: Biden praises WNBA champs for social justice activism

    WATCH: Biden praises WNBA champs for social justice activism

    Aug 23, 2021 10:18 PM EDT

    ... were feted by Barack Obama in 2016. Presidents typically host college and major league sports champions for a White House ceremony. But the two big basketball leagues skipped such celebrations during Donald Trump's administration as several prominent players and coaches were outspoken about their opposition to Trump's rhetoric ...

  • New York City mandates vaccinations for public school teachers and staff

    New York City mandates vaccinations for public school teachers and staff

    Aug 23, 2021 02:57 PM EDT

    ... broad group of city workers in the nation's most populous city, though Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that coaches and students in football, basketball and other “high-risk" sports would have to get inoculated before play begins. Now, about 148,000 school employees — and contractors who work in ...

  • What science tells us about improving middle school

    What science tells us about improving middle school

    Aug 16, 2021 05:39 PM EDT

    ... between lunch, recess and “choice time” every 30 minutes. During one sixth grade recess at the end of the school year, clusters of students played basketball and soccer, while one girl sat quietly under a tree, gazing at a cicada that had landed on her hand. Only three students were ...

  • News Wrap: CDC's new eviction moratorium faces early legal challenge

    News Wrap: CDC's new eviction moratorium faces early legal challenge

    Aug 05, 2021 10:50 PM EDT

    ... Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the U.S. women's soccer team beat Australia 4-3 for the bronze medal. And the U.S. men's basketball team downed Australia 97-78 and faces France for the gold medal on Saturday. Americans also won gold in the women's pole vault ...

  • In a pandemic Olympics without all the crowds, what gets lost?

    In a pandemic Olympics without all the crowds, what gets lost?

    Aug 02, 2021 10:16 PM EDT

    ... watchers, we can now form our own. But it's not quite the same, is it? There's a reason that young boys playing driveway basketball stop after a shot and shout, "He shoots, he scores!" before cupping their hands to their mouth to approximate a crowd's roar. There ...