While it’s tough for small basketball players to make it in the NBA, there have been a few exceptions over the years. Earl Boykins and Muggsy Bogues come to mind. Overall, though, basketball players ...

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Scottie Scheffler, Nelly Korda and Ernie Els, three players who separated themselves from their peers on the course last season, have been voted 2024 Players of the Year in their respective ...

Scoring has been climbing as of late, but this year the stat inflation has revealed itself in a more subtle way.

Ernie Nestor, who got his start coaching at Bassett High School and was a longtime Wake Forest men’s basketball assistant, ...

Ernie Nestor was the quintessential basketball lifer. Nestor, who had three different stints as an assistant coach at Wake ...

To be a professional athlete, it takes genetic gifts and hard work; however, for the freak athletes on this list, genetics are the main factor. These athletes take the word “freak” to another level, ...

Still, there’s nothing purely North American about the NHL, not any longer anyway, not based on a birth-country-by-country breakdown of the 712 players listed as active on team rosters at the ...

Gareth Bale and Ryan Giggs are the greatest Welsh players of all-time, while Kenny Dalglish and Denis Law represent Scotland. Some legendary figures such as Ian Rush, Mark Hughes, Steven Gerrard ...

Basketball became his path to success as DeRozan developed a reputation for being a hard worker in college and the NBA on his way to stardom. The shortest player in NBA history also had many other ...