basketball

“No 76ers arena in Chinatown!”

Over 3,000 protesters from Chinatown and supporting communities marched through downtown Philadelphia on June 10 with a loud and clear…

June 13, 2023

Community leaders, petitioners, fashionistas agree: “No Arena in Chinatown!’

Philadelphia Piled in front of a Philadelphia City Hall entrance April 27, were 18 boxes filled with 15,000 petitions and…

May 4, 2023

Bill Russell was a revolutionary
Death of the basketball legend at 88 should remind us of his courage off the court

By Dave Zirin The following article first appeared at thenation.com/article/society/bill-russell-obituary/. William Felton Russell revolutionized basketball with a simple innovation: jumping.…

August 4, 2022

Groundswell of support to free Brittney Griner

The struggle to bring Brittney Griner home intensifies. The star center for the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Phoenix Mercury has…

July 21, 2022

NCAA exposed for sexist practices in women’s basketball

March Madness is underway — an annual two-and-a-half week tournament that seeds 68 men’s basketball teams belonging to National Collegiate…

March 30, 2021

Historic contract reached for women basketball players

A tentative collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was reached between the Women’s National Basketball Players Association and the Women’s National Basketball…

January 20, 2020

Ole Miss basketball players take a knee against racism

As the national anthem was being played on Feb. 23  in Oxford, Miss., before an Ole Miss at-home men’s college…

March 7, 2019