‘To accomplish something like this in my career is something that I’m going to remember forever.’
Black athletes
This tag pages covers Black athletes and their various achievements and lives in and out of sport.
British basketball in ‘untenable’ position due to lack of funding, warns federation: In an open letter seen by the Guardian, [Chris] Grant [chairman of GB Basketball] also questions why basketball receives so little funding compared to sports such as sailing when it is the second most played team sport in the UK after football, with 1.3 million regular participants – 47% of whom are from backgrounds other than white British – and has a women’s team that has broken into the world’s top 20.
Caster Semenya has won her appeal at European Court of Human Rights over testosterone rules
Keep on running!
Remembering Isaac Menyoli's run at Salt Lake 2002 to raise AIDS awareness
Sometimes, you have to construct your own platform.
Freddy Adu talking about his turbulent soccer career
Much Adu about everything.
10× NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony announced his retirement on social media this week after a 19-season career.
Vinícius Jr.: an appreciation post
Solidariedade com Vini.
I had no idea that Chris Paul was nice with it on the bowling lanes! (via Instagram)
Big E giving colour commentary on his first zamboni ride is everything I’d hoped for and more.
Tiger Woods makes joint-record 23rd consecutive cut at The Masters. He ties with Fred Couples and Gary Player for the longest streak in the tournament’s history.
All of Didier Drogba's Champions League goals
Drogba was a premium baller.
Tim Newcomb’s complete history of signature tennis shoes, featuring Roger Federer, Coco Gauff, and Serena Williams amongst others.
Moses Fleetwood Walker
Before Jackie Robinson, there was a catcher for the Toledo Blue Stockings.
Cool visual explainer about Pele’s greatest achievements
‘When God created Pele, he put everything into him: speed, strength, momentum, technique, shooting, heading, dribbling, everything.’
Lebron James is now the greatest scoring NBA player of all time
38,390 and counting!