A WNBA title, a finals MVP and now a world record score – Team USA superstar A’Ja Wilson has had an impressive seven days. The 26-year-old sported a smile from ear to ear after her USA side set a new FIBA Women’s World Cup record for points in a game in their 145-69 win over […]

For Australian Opals coach Sandy Brondello, a little toughness could go a long way towards getting her side out of their group of death in the FIBA Women’s World Cup in Sydney. The Opals face Serbia on Sunday in a game that shapes as pivotal to their hopes of finishing in the top two of […]

The Australian Opals have found their shooting stroke and built some confidence ahead of their most important games of the FIBA Women’s World Cup. The Opals thrashed Mali 118-58 at Qudos Bank Arena on Friday night to take their record to 1-1 [win-loss] but they now face the games that will decide if they remain […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Emoni Bates, a former high school star who transferred from Memphis to Eastern Michigan this summer, was arrested Sunday night in Superior Township, Michigan, after sheriff’s deputies discovered a firearm in a vehicle he was driving. Derrick Jackson, the public information officer […]

Oklahoma City playmaker Josh Giddey has high hopes for himself ahead of the new NBA season but he is also predicting big things from his good mate and countryman Dyson Daniels. Giddey is back in Oklahoma City ahead of team training camp later this month after a long off-season which gave him time to work […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Duke men’s basketball’s unfortunate history of significant foot injuries continued this week when top recruit Dariq Whitehead underwent surgery Tuesday to repair a fracture in his right foot. He is out indefinitely, according to the school, but will begin rehab immediately and […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Florida transfer Keyontae Johnson, who hasn’t played since collapsing during a game in December 2020, signed with Kansas State on Saturday. Johnson chose the Wildcats over fellow finalists Nebraska, Western Kentucky and Memphis. He took a visit to Kansas State in July, and […]

Damien Cotter has come a long way from Ferntree Gully. The Chicago Bulls assistant coach often looks around whichever NBA stadium he is in and almost has to pinch himself when he considers how he has gone from the coach of the Knox Raiders men in the old South East Australian Basketball League in the […]

SAN DIEGO — They’re going to try to play college basketball on an aircraft carrier again, and nautical veteran Tom Izzo and Michigan State will get a return trip to San Diego Bay to face Gonzaga on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on Veteran’s Day. The game will be shown in prime […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato CINCINNATI — An hour before the start of “The Sean Miller Show” on June 9, the hostess at Dilly. Bistro, Bar and Bottle Shop announced that the restaurant would not have room for anyone without a reservation. The parking lot had already […]