Pat Sewards called his biggest night “a fluke.” He was a senior basketball player at Allen High School, playing for his ...

A look at Pat Riley's playing career with the Lakers, years before he became the slicked-back leader of their Showtime teams.

Before there was Gene, Gene the Dunking Machine, there was Gene the Shooting Machine. Eugene Nash might be among the two or ...

Long before fantasy leagues, the baseball dice-and-board game allowed the roll of the dice to determine the outcome of each ...

In the NCAA, both the men's and women's 3-point shot is a little bit closer than the NBA's, measuring 22 feet, 1¾ inches from ...

Jim Paxson, a University of Dayton alumnus and former NBA All-Star, has joined the university’s athletic department as Senior ...

Basketball took Butch Lee to Rucker Park, Marquette, the Olympics and more. Along the way, he quietly became a trailblazer ...

1986 — Walter Payton becomes the first NFL player to accumulate 20,000 all-purpose yards in the Chicago Bears’ 20-7 victory ...

During his time suiting up for the Sonics, King wore only jersey No. 51 and put up 5.6 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 1.7 assists ...

In 2024-25, the Dragons (284-97-7) won 74.1 percent of their 388 regular-season games to garner the Globe’s Division 2 Holmes ...

Among the many things that Wren Baker has managed to accomplish here since his arrival nearly three years ago was the ...

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson helped define basketball in the 1980s, their rivalry driving the NBA into the mainstream. Although many saw them as evenly matched, Bird believes Johnson came out ahead.