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When the St. Louis Cardinals signed free-agent Albert Pujols for a 2022 Farewell tour, my thought was, “It’s a nice gesture.”
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Meet CC, a typical 17-year-old teenager. She loves to hang with her friends and play sports. What’s not typical about her life – a wheelchair. And she isn’t letting it slow her down.
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The high school basketball season is still a couple of months away, but many of the area's top girls' players have been preparing for the season in fall league competition.
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East St. Louis Senior High basketball standout Macaleab Rich has given a commitment to Kansas State University.
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Black women often must be mavericks to find success as business leaders and entrepreneurs and St. Louisan Khalia Collier is a shining example.
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Cardinal Ritter College Prep started last season with a 3-6 record, then the Lions put together a hot postseason run to advance to the Class 3 state football semifinals.
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St. Louisan Isaiah Williams enjoyed a big night in helping lead the University of Illinois to a 31-0 victory over visiting Chattanooga in a non-conference college football game in Champaign on Thursday night.
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With Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson serving as majority owner of the revamped XFL, diversity and opportunity have been buzz words as the 2023 season nears its February kickoff.
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After being injured late in Lutheran North’s season-opening victory against Hazelwood Central, senior running back Ricky Dixon’s season seemed in peril.
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Former Metro East football standout and collegiate Hall of Famer Shelby Jordan passed away at the age of 70.
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President Joe Biden plans to meet today with the families of WNBA superstar Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.
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The FINA committee banned the caps for not following "the natural form of the head" for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The ruling meant the caps were not eligible or certified for international competition.
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Chris Paul, the Phoenix Suns all-star guard who led his team to the NBA Western Conference final is bitterly disappointed in the NBA’s punishment of Suns managing partner Robert Sarver for racist and misogynist comments which became known after a lengthy investigation.
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After a lengthy independent investigation, the NBA has suspended Robert Sarver, managing partner of the Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury for one year.
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The East St. Louis Flyers have been the dominant football program in the Metro East for decades, but there have been two worthy challengers in the Edwardsville Tigers and O'Fallon Panthers.
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Former Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel told The Kansas City Star’s Vahe Gregorian that he thinks Luther Burden could have the same positive impact on recruiting that future NFL wide receiver Jeremy Maclin did after 2006.
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The NFL season opens on Thursday night, Sept. 8, 2002, with three Black head coaches. That is three out of 32. The league can talk all the diversity it wants, but it doesn’t show up when it comes to the head guy on the sideline.
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Two of the area's top teams let their play do the talking in big early-season showdowns.
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The postseason honors continue to roll in for Las Vegas Aces star basketball player A'ja Wilson.
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The magical run of Frances Tiafoe in the U.S. Open Tennis Championships continued on Wednesday with a straight-set victory over Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals.
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American tennis standout Frances Tiafoe delivered one of the biggest moments to date at the U.S. Open on Monday evening.
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The highly anticipated collegiate football debut of Luther Burden III was a big success as the former East St. Louis star shined in Missouri's 52-24 victory over Louisiana Tech in the season opener in Columbia on Thursday night.
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Standout forward A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces was selected as the WNBA's Defensive Player of the Year this week.
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The biggest going away party in sports today is going on this week at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, N.Y. and Serena Williams is not in a hurry to see it end any time soon.
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When Marcus Freeman leads Notre Dame against host Ohio State on Saturday, Sept. 3, he will do so knowing his team is No. 1, not Alabama.
Tournament officials announced today that five of the PGA TOUR Champions top-ranked players have committed to compete at the second annual Ascension Charity Classic presented by Emerson. Steve Stricker, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Darren Clark, and Charles Schwab Cup leader Steven Alker join t…
After an early back-and-forth match, St Louis CITY2 (15-4-2, 48 pts), Major League Soccer’s (MLS) inaugural MLS NEXT Pro team in St. Louis, broke away in the second half and came away with three points over Portland Timbers2 (1-16-3, 9 pts) in a 5-3 victory on Saturday night at Hillsboro Par…
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There are lofty expectations around the Vashon High football program after last year’s breakthrough 9-2 season.
APGA Tour Championship winner Kamaiu Johnson becomes the first player to win the World Wide Technology Player Development Program bonus pool reward with his victory in the Mastercard APGA Tour Championship at TPC San Antonio recently.
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“Seeing them celebrate on our floor; that is an image, a memory, a feeling, probably never ever forget." - Jayson Tatum on watching Golden State celebrate its NBA Finals title in Boston.
Ernie Francis Jr., a Haitian American, wants to be a driving force in Indy Car racing and is in gear to do so with the Force Indy racing team.
Excitement abounds as area high school football teams kick off the season, including a pair of powers being showcased in Canton, Ohio.
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Who knows where LeBron James’ basketball skills will be in two or three years, but the NBA does know he’ll be richer and still playing for the L.A. Lakers.
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It is not surprising that the National Basketball Association is valedictorian of America’s major sports leagues when grading fairness in hiring and diversity practices.
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The year 1972 was groundbreaking for women’s sports with the passage of Title IX, a federal gender equity law that increased participation of girls and women in athletics.
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Standout football player Miles McVay of East St. Louis Senior High has given a commitment to perennial national powerhouse Alabama.
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While in a staff meeting on Monday morning August 1, news broke that Deshaun Watson was found to have violated National Football League policies for sexual misconduct yet was only sentenced to a six-game suspension.
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I’m urging the NFL to appeal disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson’s embarrassingly light so-called punishment. Stick to your original position, which is a season-long sit down.
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The basketball world lost one of its biggest giants with the passing of Hall of Fame center Bill Russell. The former Boston Celtics great died on Sunday at the age of 88.
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Professional athletes do all kinds of questionable things with their bodies to play a respective sport.
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For those good folks who have followed my career, you know about my love affair with the sport of basketball from my days as a player, coach, and currently as a writer and broadcaster.
The XFL hosted an invite-only showcase at Jackson State University on July 16 for HBCU football players, and league co-owner Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson said he would have jumped at an opportunity like that.
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I have been attending youth sporting events for more than four decades, and what I witnessed last week in Louisville was truly special.
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Major League Baseball’s lack of Black players is presented to America during the annual All-Star Game.
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Eighty-one days after Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, Larry Doby played his first game with the Cleveland Indians.
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The Rec-o-Plex Facility on Chambers Road in North County can be a hot and steamy place to be during the summer months.
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A couple of days later, the former Chaminade College Prep basketball All-American gave himself the best birthday present possible by agreeing to one of the biggest contracts in the history of the National Basketball Association.
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With big-name former NFL players including Deion Sanders at Jackson State and Eddie George at Tennessee State, HBCU football is all the rage.
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“This is going to be painful for me to say, but I think Steph Curry passes Isiah Thomas as the greatest small guard ever.” - NBA analyst Charles Barkley after Curry led Golden State to fourth title
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It was an exciting year of track and field in the St. Louis metro area. We will now put a bow on the season with the announcement of the St. Louis American 2022 All-Area Track and Field Team.
