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Basketball legend Kobe Bryant described the United States of America as the greatest country in the world in 2008, calling it the “ultimate” honor to represent in the Olympics.

LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — A winless North Carolina high school basketball coach assaulted a heckler who raised his hand to admit he had made the comment, a sheriff’s office said.

It is not about the money, but about what is in the heart, NBA legend Michael Jordan said Thursday at the opening of a medical clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina.

NBA player LeBron James’ condemnation of Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey on Monday for supporting human rights in China has triggered a widespread backlash in Hong Kong, whose pro-freedom movement Morey endorsed. James complained that Morey “wasn’t educated” when

A couple attending a Philadelphia 76ers basketball game against the Chinese team Guangzhou Loong Lions were ejected from the stadium on Tuesday night after holding signs and shouting support for Hong Kong.

The firestorm that followed the National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China reflects the souring of China’s relationship with the U.S. However, it may not fundamentally change the way U.S. businesses respond to pressure from the Chinese regime.

Democrat presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is reaching out to sports fans as the top ten candidates take the debate stage on Thursday.

Longshot Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang recently said that he wants to challenge President Donald Trump to a basketball game, and that he would “school him” on the court.

Led by a decline in football for the fifth straight year, participation in high school sports dropped in 2018-19 for the first time in 30 years, according to an annual survey conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations.

A Title IX report cleared a group of Michigan State University basketball players accused of gang rape.

A basketball-playing robot has set a world record for sinking free throws.

It’s not unusual for NFL teams to suffer serious injuries as OTA’s and training camps get underway. It is more than a little unusual, however, to have the head coach be the one who suffers the serious injury.

Few sports topics have gotten more media attention in recent years than concussions in football and all the various potentially deadly conditions that could result from them.

TEL AVIV – Former NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire was granted Israeli citizenship on Wednesday. 

Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky is still reeling from the encounter between some of its students and angry black and Native American activists in Washington, DC, last weekend. As a result, Friday’s basketball game against a local rival has been postponed.

New York center Enes Kanter will be a no-show in London for the Knicks’ upcoming international game. He is withdrawing because he believes he is an assassination target based on his opposition to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Once again, Virginia basketball is off to a roaring start. Cavaliers fans have grown accustomed to their squad piling on the victories ever since Tony Bennett took the helm in Charlottesville back in 2009.

A prominent youth basketball coach in Iowa admitted this week to sexually exploiting 400 young boys.

Chicago players from a youth basketball league got into a brawl with referees during a game Sunday in Atlanta, Georgia.

After a Twitter back-and-forth that began with Jimmy Kimmel mocking Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for being in attendance at the Golden State Warriors- Houston Rockets Game 7 playoff game, Cruz and Kimmel agreed to play a game of one-on-one. Cruz

TEL AVIV – Converting to Judaism is the “most important thing right now,” NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire told Breitbart Jerusalem in an exclusive interview Monday.

The museum is well worth a visit, even you do not care about basketball, because of the sheer spectacle of intense devotion to a single topic.

In a recent interview on the “Unnecessary Roughness Podcast,” CBS Sports college basketball analyst Clark Kellogg recalled the time he played a game of HORSE in 2010 with then President Barack Obama and how the former president “took advantage” of

Following the revelation that Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a bar in 2011, another Oregon newspaper is reporting a witness confirm he saw a physical encounter between a woman and the billionaire sports figure.

A New York high school senior went from zero to hero in seconds on Saturday after missing a free throw that he thought may have cost his team a championship game only to turn around and make a desperate Hail Mary toss from 70-feet out to sink a basket that gave his team the game.

A boy’s basketball team from suburban Cincinnati was suspended from a youth league for featuring racist slogans on the backs of their jerseys, a report says.

A young Kansas City man now says he is sorry for impulsively punching a high school basketball referee in the head after the ref ruled against his sister during a high school girl’s basketball game.

Thursday on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed,” analyst Chris Broussard reacted to LaVar Ball reportedly hiring an agent to help his sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, get signed to play basketball overseas. The outspoken father removed LiAngelo from UCLA while he served a suspension in his

President Donald Trump accepted the thanks from three UCLA basketball players after they were released from China for shoplifting.

“I had a great conversation with President Xi,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on the trip back from Asia. “He was terrific, and they’re working on it right now, and hopefully everything is going to work out.”

Three freshman UCLA Bruins basketball players were reportedly arrested on Tuesday for allegedly shoplifting sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou while they were in China for the Pac-12 China Game.

Some schools in Idaho are crying rotten potatoes when it comes to athletics. Recent decisions on the postseason eligibility of certain student athletes has left many scratching their heads.

The NBA’s Golden State Warriors decided to honor the NBA’s rules and stand for the performance of the national anthem in their preseason opener on Saturday.

San Antonio Spurs basketball coach Gregg Popovich claimed in an interview that white people are privileged and should be made to feel “uncomfortable.”

Former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire, who became the most famous name to join Israel’s basketball league when he signed with Hapoel Jerusalem last year, will not play for the team next season, the team said Sunday.

After former FBI director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a Newsweek writer was curious about whether the 6-foot-8 Comey could actually dunk a basketball.