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In the WNBA’s Early Days, Houston’s Comets Came Around Every Year
On August 26, 2000, the Houston Comets won the WNBA title. This was no surprise; four seasons into the league’s existence, the Comets were the only champions it had known. But the game, the second in a...
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Cade Cunningham’s NBA Blueprint Was Drafted in Texas
Top NBA draft picks tend to fall into a handful of categories. There are back-line big men who invite the happy thought of certain problems (interior defense, rebounding) taken care of for the next...
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How Davion Mitchell Built Himself Into a Top-15 NBA Draft Pick at Baylor
Davion Mitchell’s last game as an Auburn Tiger, in March of 2018, was a forgettable one. The nineteen-year-old freshman came off the bench in the second round of the NCAA tournament, making just one of...
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Bijan Robinson Is Transcendent, but Can He Run Past Oklahoma?
He might have been happy with the first down. The Longhorns faced a fourth-and-three on Texas Tech’s 38-yard-line—too close to punt but too far for a field goal. Bijan Robinson snuck out of the...
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Matthew Stafford’s HS Teammates Never Doubted He’d Play in the Super Bowl
For high school quarterbacks of a certain pedigree, toughness can be theoretical. As a senior at Highland Park High School in 2005, Matthew Stafford had plenty of brawn to him—anyone could see that....
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Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith Sets Her Sights on WNBA Stardom
The NCAA’s name, image, and license rules—which went into effect last year and have since allowed college athletes to make money by advertising brands and marketing their own—are also a boon to...
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How to Decode College Football’s Summer of Greed? Look to Impish Booster...
In May, college football’s nascent name, image, and likeness (NIL) era came to a head. At an otherwise drowsy event gathering local business leaders in Birmingham, University of Alabama coach and SEC...
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The Manu, the Myth, the Legend
In my years of watching basketball, no player has ever surprised me as much, or as often, as Manu Ginóbili. Among the whole remembered reel of leg-threading bounce passes, teleporting dribble moves,...
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