basketball

‘You Suck!’: New Study Looks at 20 Years of Trash Talk in the NBA

When you’re a pro basketball player, if you’re not doing the dunking, you’re definitely getting dunked on

A Winning Look at the Forgotten Championship Belts of Golf and Other Surprising Sports

Championship belts are typically most synonymous with wrestling, boxing and mixed-martial arts, but the in the 19th century, they were so ubiquitous that they were even handed out for winning speed-walking competitions

If You Bring Back ‘White Men Can’t Jump,’ You Have to Bring Back Wesley Snipes’ Colnago Cap

It’s every bit as indelible as anything else in the 1992 classic

Why Did the NCAA Ban the Slam Dunk for Nine Years?

When Black stars like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar couldn’t be stopped on the court, NCAA power brokers conspired off of it to put in place rules meant to deny their influence