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One-Armed Emmanuel Throws Down Vicious Dunk
Nineteen-year-old Hansel Emmanuel sent the crowd and his Northwestern State teammates into a frenzy when recording the first collegiate points of his career over the weekend. Emmanuel, a one-armed freshman, entered late in Northwestern State's 91-...

New Mexico State Announces Indefinite Suspension of Peake
New Mexico State announced the indefinite suspension of forward Mike Peake for his alleged involvement in a shooting that resulted in the death of a University of New Mexico student last month. Despite the decision from the university, Peake has n...

Georgia School Resource Officer Confiscates Guns from Student at Basketball Game
A Georgia school resource officer confiscated two guns from a student at a high school basketball game on Friday, school leaders say. Hall County School District officials said the student brought the two handguns to a basketball game at Cherokee ...

NCHSAA To Consider 35-Second Shot Clock
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) board of directors is considering phasing in a shot clock for high school basketball during their meeting this week. Under the proposed plan, submitted by the North Carolina Basketball C...

Texas High School Basketball Programs Stripped of UIL Title, Hit With Postseason Ban
A Texas high school athletics department is mired in controversy regarding both of its basketball teams — one being stripped of its 2021-22 UIL state championship and another being banned from 2022-23 postseason play. The Duncanville boys basket...

Basketball Player Saves Referee Who Collapsed During Game
Myles Copeland is exactly the kind of teammate you want. While his semi-pro basketball teams won the game, it was Copeland that made a lifesaving play on a referee. When referee John Sculli collapsed during a game two months ago, Copeland, who works...

Texas Tech Football & Women’s Basketball Teams Sign NIL Deals
Every single player on the 2022-23 Texas Tech football team was recently signed to a Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) one-year, $25,000 contract from a local collective called the Matador Club. The deal will be for all 85 scholarship players plus 1...

Two Fights Breakout Between Refs, Fans, & Coaches during AAU Tournaments
Two AAU basketball referees were involved in physical altercations during summer tournaments in the midwest over the last weekend. In Oklahoma, a referee knocked out a male spectator after issuing a technical foul to a coach for stepping out onto ...

5 Steps to Continuing Relationships with Student-Athletes After Graduation
During the recruiting process, many coaches sell prospective student-athletes on how they strive to have lifelong relationships with their former players. But how many actually practice what they preach? For most young people, the years spent ...

Jump Stops, Pivots, and V-Cuts
Having coached basketball at every level since 1970, including 21 years in the NBA, I always started with stops, starts, pivots, and v-cuts with every team I worked with. In presenting at coaches and player clinics since retiring from the NBA, I...