Sports
Dawn Staley Becomes Highest Paid Black Women’s College Basketball Coach After Signing $22.4M Contract. By Gee NY / SMC
Beautiful Wives & Girlfriends of the NBA. By Marijean Grace / Sports Drop
Why has the Barry Sanders doc ‘Bye Bye Barry’ angered Scott Mitchell? By Mike Freeman / USA Today
LeBron James becomes the first NBA player to score 39,000 points as LA Lakers clinch In-Season Tournament knockout spot. By Sam Joseph / CNN
Meet the brothers behind Kansas City Chiefs TE Travis Kelce’s business. By Matenzie Johnson / Andscape
New Orleans Pelicans forward Larry Nance Jr. heads drive to fight food insecurity. By Marc J. Spears / Andscape
Michael Oher’s Foster Brothers Claim Iconic ‘Blind Side’ Scene ‘Didn’t Occur.’ By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
Bronny James Tumbles, But $93K Loss Pushes Shedeur Sanders Much Deeper in the NIL Race. By Dhruv Shastry / Essentially Sports
Warriors, Timberwolves fight involves 3 ejections, Draymond Green chokehold on Rudy Gobert. By Jon Krawczynski, Anthony Slater and Marcus Thompson II / The Athletic
Black Hockey Player In Fatal Freak Accident Has Become A Target For Racist Tweets. By Candace McDuffie / The Root
Deion Sanders and the Past and Future of College Football. By Zack Helfand / The New Yorker
Meet People magazine’s sexiest Black male athletes. By Haniyah Philogene / The Grio
Las Vegas Raiders’ Black leadership is a picture of progress. By Jason Reid / Andscape
Michael Jordan Jumpman biography excerpt: When Air Jordan sneakers were blamed for “Black-on-Black crime.” By Johnny Smith / Slate
Naomi Osaka Name Drops LeBron James as She Reaps the Rewards From His Business Venture Backing. By Akshay Kapoor / Essentially Sports
Andre Iguodala to lead NBA players union amid leadership shake-up. By Ben Golliver / Wash Post
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Josh Dobbs isn’t just brilliant, he’s part of a new era. By Matenzie Johnson / Andscape
Victor Wembanyama’s hard launch to NBA stardom. By Ben Golliver / Wash Post
