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... sat in different classrooms watching the clock. In 19 minutes, school would be out and the buddies had plans this Valentine's Day: a little basketball and boys' time. Inside classroom 1214, the clock hit 2:21 p.m. Then: POP! POP! POP! Instinctively, 16-year-old Jonathan hit the ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight, yet another scandal has rocked the world of college basketball, and this time it's caught up some of the sport's biggest names. Jeffrey Brown has that. JEFFREY BROWN: Big money in college sports, that's no surprise. But today's charges expose a ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: A remarkable accomplishment has taken place now in college sports. The women's basketball team at the University of Connecticut has now won 100 straight games. William Brangham has more. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: To put this streak in context, the UConn women haven't lost a basketball game ...
... team to eight NCAA national championships. After recovering from a torn ACL, Summitt acted as member and co-captain of the U.S. women's basketball team at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, the first time women's basketball was included on the Olympic program. The team won a silver ...
Malak, a 16-year-old Palestinian, said she first heard about PeacePlayers International – a group that unites Israelis and Palestinians to play basketball – five years ago. She wanted to learn basketball but was nervous about being around Jews. “As an Arab, as a little kid, you’re going to be ...
After a 13-year career in the NBA, Jason Collins, the first openly gay professional basketball player, is retiring. Eighteen months ago Collins came out as gay through a first person article published in Sports Illustrated. In the first line he wrote, “I am a 34-year old NBA center ...
Raise your hand if you have ever filled out a bracket for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Now keep them up if you’ve ever torn it up after watching an unheard-of university (Mercer?) ruin your picks. It’s OK to admit to it. It’s all just part of the beautiful chaos that is March Madness. But...
The former NBA great has made headlines from his visits to North Korea and the reclusive dictator Kim Jong-un, and now Rodman has announced plans to help train the North Korean Olympic basketball team and organize a game early next year in Pyongyang featuring a dozen former NBA players ...
Although the Syracuse men's basketball team received a No. 1 seed in this year's championship tournament, the program failed to meet NCAA graduation rate standards. Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images. Ahead of Thursday's tipoff of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, a study has found anew ...
... won't lead to an immediate government shutdown. Both recall their experience covering the last government shutdown in 1995 and early 1996. We wrap it up with some thoughts on the addition of basketball star Carmelo Anthony to the lineup for the New York Knicks. Follow Hari Sreenivasan on Twitter.
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