basketball

Every fall season brings new hope to NBA teams throughout the league. That rings especially true for the Dallas Mavericks this season as they look to improve after a dismal 41-41 season, missing the playoffs for the first time in 12 years...

The Midwestern State men's basketball team kicked off the 2013-14 season under the dome of DL Ligon coliseum against the Mid-America Christian Evangels.

Twelve-year NBA veteran center Jason Collins writes in an essay in Sports Illustrated: "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay man playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation."

Louisville 82, Michigan 76 Reserve guard Luke Hancock scored 22 points, including making all five of his 3-point shot attempts, as Louisville beat Michigan, 82-76, in the 2013 NCAA basketball championship in Atlanta on Monday night. The victory gave Cardinals' head coach Rick Pitino a second national title in addition to the one he won at Kentucky in 1996, making him the first coach to win a men's

March Madness begins on Tuesday, with the four play-in games, then starts for real on Thursday. But on Sunday, we finally got a look at the brackets for the first time—and a few teams are feeling left out, forgotten or just plain insulted.

Honestly, you don't even need to be a sports fan to enjoy this one. During a recent game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Detroit Pistons, the Clippers own DeAndre Jordan rocked the house when he successfully landed a "monster" alley-oop over Pistons player Brandon Knight. It was a shot that caused an immense uproar inside the Staples Center, one which you might still be able to

Show us your predictions for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. And if you predict the outcome of the bracket perfectly, we’ll give you one million dollars!

For a long stretch of time it felt as though every few years an NCAA university football program was caught abusing the rules and manipulating the system. These days it seems that not a single month goes by without hearing allegations of cheating by a major national football power...