Keegan Murray was one of the most dominant college basketball players in the nation last season, averaging 23.5 points per game while shooting 55.4 percent from the field. The 6-foot-8 Cedar Rapids product led the country with a 38.2 player efficiency rating and added 8.7 boards and nearly two blocks a night en route to … Read more
John Long celebrated an overall win at the recent Blind Veterans UK archery championship. The 79-year-old, originally from Perthshire but now living in Inverness, claimed a medal every day of the competition to finish top of the standings. Picking up a bow for the first time after attending a Blind Veterans UK open day, Long … Read more
This could be a historic draft for Duke. Should all five Blue Devils who declared for the 2022 NBA Draft be selected Thursday night, Duke will become part of an exclusive list of programs that have had five or more players taken in one draft. All bets are on that this will happen, too, with … Read more
School’s out and Maine’s summer camp season is in full swing, but this year, it’s not all friendship bracelets and swimming. “We have about 70 staff right now, which, if you looked at it purely numbers-wise, it looks like we’re perfectly on target, but we have a waitlist with hundreds of people on it and … Read more
Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits gender-based discrimination in schools, turns 50 on Thursday. While the law was in its infancy, Debbie Lewis was experiencing equality – in a painful way – on the playgrounds of suburban Philadelphia. And it didn’t bother her a bit. Lewis, the first great women’s basketball player … Read more
It is good to be Shaylee Gonzales and Grace McCallum right now. Gonzales, the BYU women’s basketball star who is in the transfer portal, and McCallum, a current standout in gymnastics at the University of Utah, are considered two of the top 10 most marketable women in all of NCAA sports right now. That’s at … Read more
Forever altering the course of basketball in Spokane, the 1999 Gonzaga men’s basketball team conjured up its own Cinderella story, leveraging its Elite Eight run into two decades-plus of success. That run, forever enshrined by sophomore Casey Calvary’s wild go-ahead putback tip with 4.4 seconds left in the Sweet 16 against Florida, catapulted the Zags … Read more
Assistant coach Jack Owens speaks with media June 15. Credit: Jacob Benge | Sports Editor Jack Owens’ career as a basketball coach spans over two decades, and his experience will only grow at Ohio State. He spent the last five seasons as the head coach of Miami (Ohio) and over 10 years as an assistant … Read more
The 2012 computer-animated fantasy film Brave was a significant shift for animation as Pixar had completely rewritten its animation system for the first time in 25 years. Brave was the first Pixar film with a female protagonist and the first one animated with Presto. Not only was Princess Merida a strong protagonist for the film, … Read more
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