Making A Difference: Kyrie Irving makes surprise donation to Ghanian and Nigerian children

In late February,22-year-old San Diego, California native Cameron Mofid set up a GoFundMe with the hopes of raising $1,000 toward his goals of building a school in Lagos, Nigeria as well as an orphanage in Ghana. Just a week after the GoFundMe was lauchned, the campaign had over 170 contributors and Mr. Mofid increased his goal to $5,000. Upon arising on a Sunday soonafter the launch of the fundrasier, he saw a $45,000 doantion from Kyrie Irving..yes that Kyrie Irving. Mofid told the Dallas Morning News, “I actually thought it…

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“Lucky Green” Air Jordan 1 High OG: Official Images

The upcoming spring season will see the debut of the “Lucky Green” Air Jordan 1. Visually reminiscent to the “Celtics” Mid from from 2009’s Jordan 1 DMP, it sports. a white leather foundational layer overlaid with that of black at the toe and eye rows and lucky green wrapping the heel and flanking the ankle. Black Swooshes adorn the lateral and medial sides, with the Wings logo on the lateral side of the same hue. Lucky green shows up on the “NIKE AIR” branding on the tongue, with black making…

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“Thunder” Air Jordan 4 : Official Images

The “Thunder” Air Jordan 4 is making a return after eleven years in cold storage. Like it’s forbears, the 2023 iteration sports a black nubuck upper with tour yellow present most prominently on the ends of the lace tabs and backing the netting on the sides and tongue; the same hue also shows up on “Flight” portion of the tongue branding and behind the tongue. This version also features the black stitching seen on earlier incarnations. Underneath the aforementioned upper resides a tour yellow midsole and black rubber outsole with…

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Tennesee State loses in OVC quarters to SEMO 91-83

91 Winner Southeast Mo. St. 17-16,10-8 OVC 83 Tennessee St. 18-14,10-8 OVC Team 1 2 F Southeast Mo. St. 35  56  91 Tennessee St. 31  52  83 The Tennessee State men’s basketball team looked less like the team that recently won 7 of 8 Ohio Valley Conference game and more like the squad that laid an egg in the season finales against Souther Indiana , as they fell to SEMO, 91-83 in the quarterfinal of the OVC Tournament, TSU was hampered bu turnovers, the 9 they committed turned into 14 SEMO points, and…

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“Black Cement Reimagined” Air Jordan 4 coming March 2024

The “Black Cement” Air Jordan IV is the latest original colorway that will be added to the “Reimagined” roster. Since its original 1989 release, the “Black Cement” IV has seen 4 additional retail runs 1999, 2008 along the Air Jordan XIX as part of one of the Countdown Packs, 2012, with the most recent recent in 2019 marking the return of original “NIKE AIR” branding. At this early juncture, there no images available , but it is known the sneaker will make use of a black, cement grey, summit white…

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2 March 2023 MEAC Men’s Basketball Recap

Courtesy of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Confernce and Sneakershoptalk.com: North Carolina Central 71, South Carolina State 64Coppin State 77, Morgan State 65Maryland Eastern Shore 64, Delaware State 58 Howard 87, Norfolk State 67 North Carolina Central 71, South Carolina State 64 ORANGEBURG, S.C. – North Carolina Central University closed out the regular season with a 71-64 road victory over South Carolina State University on Thursday night, providing NCCU with its seventh straight win and a No. 2 seed in next week’s Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Men’s Basketball Tournament. Senior center Brendan Medley-Bacon topped…

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Howard punches Norfolk State in the mouth, 87-67, secures MEAC regular season crown

67 Norfolk St. 20-10,9-5 MEAC 87 Winner Howard 19-12,11-3 MEAC Team 1 2 F Norfolk St. 25  42  67 Howard 52  35  87 The matchup between two of the top three teams in the MEAC , with potentially a share of the regular season title at stake, turned out to be rather one-sided as the Howard Bison used blistering shooing to build a first-half lead that proved to be insurmountable, in taking it to Norfolk State in a wire-to-wire 87-67 win. Howard quickly jumped out to a 7-0 lead off a three-pointer from…

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Week 4 SIAC Volleyball Players of the Week

Courtesy of the SIAC: ATLANTA, Ga. (March 2, 2023) – Cameron Lee (Central State) was named Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Men’s Volleyball Offensive Player of the Week, while Victor Scherer (Central State)earned Defensive Player of the Week. Kenyon Haynes (Edward Waters) was tabbed Setter of the Week, released by the league office on Thursday. OFFENSIVE – Cameron Lee, Sophomore, Outside Hitter, Central State Central State sophomore Cameron Lee led the CSU attack last week with 17 kills against Edward Waters with a .191 hitting percentage and 12 kills against Benedict with a .258 hitting percentage. DEFENSIVE – Victor Scherer, Sophomore, Libero, Central State…

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