By Rohan Nadkarni With four minutes and 35 seconds left in the third quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers’ 110-97 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday, Luka Dončić — upset over what he considered a missed call — made a gesture with his hands that indicated the referees were receiving money for slanted officiating.
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The fallout from a widening sports betting scandal tied to North Carolina A&T has taken another step forward. It adds a troubling new chapter to a story that has shaken the HBCU and college basketball world. Jalen Smith is a Charlotte, North Carolina man accused of helping orchestrate a point-shaving scheme involving multiple NCAA men’s
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Courtesy of Spelman College Over 85 Students from 10 HBCUs Competed in 24-Hour Hackathon for $10,000 in Prizes (Black PR Wire) ATLANTA – Spelman College welcomed over 85 students from 10 HBCUs to compete in the fourth annual HBCU Game Jam, a 24-hour hackathon competition where students work in teams to create original video games from scratch. Hosted
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ATLANTA, Ga. | Alabama A&M University guard Kalia Walker earned her second award in as many weeks on Tuesday afternoon as she was named the HBCU GO Women’s Basketball National Player of the Year. Walker, who was selected the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Player of the Year, is averaging 14.0 points and shooting 40.4 percent
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By Aamer Madhani, Julia Frankel, Michael Biesecker And Eric Tucker Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings
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The SWAC Tournament semifinals will feature one of the weekend’s most anticipated matchups as Southern University faces Florida A&M on Friday at Gateway Center Arena in College Park. With two of the largest HBCU alumni bases in the Atlanta metro area, the game should draw one of the biggest crowds of the tournament. FAMU reached
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A development inside an HBCU basketball arena last week has now revealed a much larger administrative decision that had quietly unfolded behind the scenes. The disappearance of a retired jersey banner honoring Kevin Granger sparked renewed attention around the status of the former Texas Southern University athletic director. The university has now confirmed that Granger was formally
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By Minyvonne Burke, Ryan J. Reilly, Gary Grumbach and Emmy Beck-Aden Authorities are investigating a shooting at a Virginia college Thursday that left one victim dead and two injured as an act of terrorism, FBI Director Kash Patel said. The gunfire erupted shortly before 11 a.m. in an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, officials said. The victim,
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By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. About 1 in 3 U.S. adults say they’ve made trade-offs to afford health care in the past year, including rationing or skipping medications or borrowing money, according to a poll from West Health-Gallup. A second survey from the group found nearly 1 in 10 adults say they’ve postponed retirement because of health care costs.
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By Jane C. Timm As a Republican push to pass the SAVE America Act has stalled in Congress, even amid escalating pressure from President Donald Trump, efforts are underway at the state level to fill in the gaps. Lawmakers in a dozen states have advanced legislation this year that would require residents to prove their U.S. citizenship
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