Day: April 11, 2023

DIllion Brooks says he “wouldn’t mind” facing LeBron and Lakers in 1st round of playoffs

Brandon King

The latest rsident heel of the NBA,Dillion Brooks has spent the year getting under the skin of the majority of his opponents on the court. His verbal spars with the Golden State Warriors, notably Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, who he once said resembled the PBS logom have garnered plenty of attention, but Brooks has a new target of his brand of smack talk-LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. Speaking after the team’s practice on Tuesday, the Association’s preimenent agitator had this to say about facing James and the…

Read More

These sneakers worn by Michael Jordan were sold for a record amount

Brandon King

Michael Jordan has not dribbled a basketball on a NBA for 20 years and yet he continues to set records. The Air Jordan XIII that the consensus greatest player ever wore while scoring 37 points 5 rebounds and 2 assists in Game 2 of the 1998 NBA Finals- a pivotal game in which the Bulls were victorious 93-88 to tie the series at 1 game apiece – were sold at auction for $2,238,000, which was the highest price ever paid for a pair of sneakers. Brahm Wachter, Sotheby’s head of…

Read More

Albany State baseball takes two of three against Morehouse

Staff

Courtesy of Dr.Earnest Brown, Albany State Athletics The Albany State University Golden Rams baseball team won their series against the Morehouse Maroon Tigers by winning 2 out of 3 games in Atlanta, Georgia.  The Golden Rams are now (23-7) overall and (21-2) in the SIAC.  The Maroon Tigers are (15-15-1) overall and (13-13) in the conference.  In game 1, the Golden Rams defeated the Maroon Tigers (21-5).  The Golden Rams finished with 21 runs and 16 hits against the Maroon Tigers.  The Golden Rams scored in all 7 innings of the…

Read More

DeMarcus Cousins signs with Puerto Rican team Guaynabo Mets as initial step of NBA comeback

Brandon King

According to reporting from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, NBA veteran center DeMarcus Cousins signed with Guaynabo Mets of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional , which is the first-tier professional men’s basketball league in Puerto Rico. The four-time NBA All-Star was one the league’s preimenent big man and players overall, averaging 22 points and 10 rebounds before suffering a torn Achilles toward the later part of the 2017-18 season and then tore his ACL, costing him the entire 2019-20 season. In the subsequent season, Cousins has bounced around the Association a bit. He finished…

Read More

Southern softball falls to Texas Southern 2-1

Staff

Courtesy of Kevin Albarez, Assistant Sport Information Director, Texas Southern Athletics 2 Winner TXSOSB23 1 SU Team R H E TXSOSB23 2 9 0 SU 1 7 0 W: Jazmine Gendorf (5-5) L: Valadez, Anabella (1-10) BATON ROUGE, La. – Southern and Texas Southern flashed the leather in a tremendous defensive effort to open the Southwestern Athletic Conference play at Lady Jaguar Field on Monday afternoon. TSU would come away with a 2-1 victory. Southern dropped to 8-26 overall and 4-9 in SWAC play. Texas Southern improved to 9-17 and 6-7 in league play. Southern…

Read More

Southern track claims seven individual titles at the Pelican Relays

Staff

Titile image via Tristan Holliday Kevin Albarez, Assistant Sport Information Director, Southern University Athletics BATON ROUGE, LA – The Pelican Relays returned to A. W. Mumford Stadium for the first time in 15 years and Southern University capitalized on the opportunity to host a meet. Southern won seven different event titles and improved their positioning in every event. Uzuri Graves, Kinzli Zenon and Karanay Alexander got things started in the women’s javelin. Graves won the event with a distance of 123 feet 7 inches. Zenon finished second at 108 feet 10 inches and Alexander finished fourth…

Read More