Category: SOTC

VA’s Tony Bennett suddenly announces retirement

Staff

Courtesy of Brendan Marks of The Athletic Virginia coach Tony Bennett — one of the winningest college basketball coaches in the history of the ACC and the sport at large, who delivered the program’s first and only national championship in 2019 — is retiring, the school announced Thursday afternoon. Bennett’s retirement is effective immediately, and his final press conference will be Friday. The 55-year-old ends his career not just as Virginia’s all-time wins leader, possessing a 364-136 record over 15 seasons in Charlottesville, but as one of the most storied…

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Grambling Athletic Department issues statement on Jaquavis Richmond injury

Brandon King

Saturday Grambling was taken to the woodshed 72-10 by LSU, however the outcome was not the most concerining aspect of the evening for the Tigers. Gramblng State linebacker Jaquavis Richmond suffered a frightening injury halfway through the third quarter while making a tackle on LSU wideout Gregory Clayton on a punt return. It appeared that Richmond collided with teammate Chrisitian Williams as they came together to stop Clayton. For a tense ten minutes, Richmond was attended to by medical personnel before being carted off the field. Richmond, a native of…

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SOTC: Why the return of the Air Jordan XVII could be a watershed moment for sneakers going forward

Brandon King

The Air Jordan XVII makes its long awaited return in 2024, with the “University Blue” and “Lightning” lows hitting stores , followed by the White and Red mids later in the year. Sneakershoptalk.com’s Brandon King details in this video how this release could be a hallmark moment for the wallets of sneaker enthusiasts going forward.

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FIBA News: Giannis to play in World Cup opener

Brandon King

Giannis Antetokounmpo is primed and ready to return as the games get serious for the Greek national team. He is expecyed to play in the Group I of the 2023 World Cup European qualifiers, where the team will pay a visit to Serbia and the back-to-back NBA MVP Nikola Jokić. Three days later the Greek team returns home to take on Belgium. Back soreness kept Antetokounmpo out of their last game against Turkey , thankfully the Hellenistic Basketball Federation announced Saturday that an MRI that Giannis underwent came back clean.…

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EuroBasket 2022 News: No Nikola Jovic and Aleksej Pokusevski for Serbia

Brandon King

Although the Serbian national team will have NBA MVP Nikola Jokic back amongst its ranks, for other Serbian NBA players they will have to be spectators. Aleksei Pokusevski of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Nikola Jovic of the Miami Heat will not take part in the EuroBasket nor the 2023 World Cup Qualifiers, as their respective NBA did not give them the green light to participate. Serbian national team head coach Svetislav Pesic had this to say about the status of Pokusevski and Jovic: “For [Aleksej] Pokusevski and [Nikola] Jovic, we did not get…

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June 17, 2021 NBA Playoff Recap : Khris Middleton helps Bucks get to Game 7

Brandon King

Who Got It Done pt rb ast Khris MiddletonMIL vs. BRK 38 10 5   5-8 3-pt G. AntetokounmpoMIL vs. BRK 30 17 3 Jrue HolidayMIL vs. BRK 21 8 5   4 stl James HardenBRK @ MIL 16 5 7   4 stl Kevin DurantBRK @ MIL 32 11 3 Blake GriffinBRK @ MIL 12 6 0   2 stl Brook LopezMIL vs. BRK 8 5 0   3 blk Joe HarrisBRK @ MIL 9 4 0 Alize JohnsonBRK @ MIL 4 1 0 Jeff GreenBRK @ MIL 5 6 2   2 stl Yesterday’s…

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SOTC: AN ESSAY SneakerHead Complaints

Aaron Henderson

In my introductory piece for SST, I wanted to start of with a new Essay Series called SOTC (State of the Culture). I’ll cover a range of topics, but TODAY, let’s dig into how we, as a subculture are some of the WHINIEST consumers out there. If you don’t wanna stick around while I jump into my old man bag, feel free to exit now. You’ve clicked the link. Your traffic has been counted. SINCE WHEN DID YOU BECOME A LEATHER AND TEXTILE MASTER? People work in whole factories, go…

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SOTC II: The SNKRS App

Aaron Henderson

*I’ll start this off by saying: I don’t work for Nike. I’m not a designer or app developer on any level, period. Anything resembling a complaint about a technical feature or shortcoming comes from a place of a complete lack of knowledge of how things work from the tech side, especially what is and is not possible for Nike to control. But like any good writer, I’ve had this one in the bag  for a while, and now feels like as good a time as any to offer my unsolicited…

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SOTC: AN ESSAY- SneakerHead Complaints

Aaron Henderson

In my introductory piece for SST, I wanted to start of with a new Essay Series called SOTC (State of the Culture). I’ll cover a range of topics, but TODAY, let’s dig into how we, as a subculture are some of the WHINIEST consumers out there. If you don’t wanna stick around while I jump into my old man bag, feel free to exit now. You’ve clicked the link. Your traffic has been counted. 😂 SINCE WHEN DID YOU BECOME A LEATHER AND TEXTILE MASTER? People work in whole factories,…

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