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Ryan Israel | Wednesday, March 20, 2019
“We’re gonna introduce now the North Clayton Eagles / Coached by James Gwynn / His starters, number 21, Tauheed Epps.” The announcer’s voice cuts out, but you can watch, or just imagine, the rest. A tall, lanky high school kid strides past his teammates — receiving high fives as he goes — then shakes hands
Peter St. John | Wednesday, March 6, 2019
The NBA regular season officially ends April 10. But in reality, the season finishes at different times for different teams. For the New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns, it barely retained any meaning past November. For the Golden States Warriors, it has only just begun. And for the Los Angeles Lakers, the curtain has just come
Jake Winningham | Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Steven Soderbergh’s most successful movies find a way to balance their potentially heady themes with his gift for visually engaging, engrossing storytelling. Take, for example, his two best films. “Ocean’s Eleven” is a look at our nation’s celebrity obsession wrapped up in Rat Pack glitz, while the beefcake fantasia of “Magic Mike” belies a meticulous
Courtney Becker | Thursday, November 29, 2018
With the WNBA season over and the NBA in full swing, people might have stopped thinking about women’s basketball at this point in the year (cue the commenter claiming no one ever thinks about women’s basketball). But hey, the time is always ripe for a women’s basketball Sports Authority, especially with the start of college
Maria Paul Rangel | Thursday, November 8, 2018
Brian Hubbard is not your average Joe. He wakes up before dawn, puts on a pair of blue jeans and a T-shirt — the Notre Dame 2018 Shirt is his favorite — and makes his way to Rockne Memorial to begin a shift that starts at 4 a.m. and ends at noon. He signs in,
Ryan Israel | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
One day, a Harlem teenager had to make a pivotal decision. Option one was to attend his high school basketball team’s playoff round matchup. Option two was to be a model in the biggest hip-hop/high fashion crossover event to date, Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 fashion line release. Sheck Wes, that teenager, chose the latter,
Gabriel Niforatos | Tuesday, October 9, 2018
It looked like a scroll. A picture from a news-clipping at least 30 years old. The paper had yellowed and crumbled and fallen apart at the edges, crinkled in a thousand different ways. At the center was a photograph showing a young, college-aged man in a basketball uniform, rising up for a fadeaway jumper. My
Zachary Yim | Monday, September 17, 2018
LeBron James is the greatest face of a sport, ever. If I were to choose a sports idol to idealize, Lebron is everything I would want. Now, I’m a Sacramento Kings fan, and I don’t really know what winning is like or what the playoffs even really look like anymore. Basketball games that have implications
Courtney Becker | Monday, August 27, 2018
Something was missing from the Sports Authorities last week. With the first one, my colleague Tobias Hoonhout attempted to “update our readers, especially those who completely rely upon The Observer to inform them of the happenings in the real world of sports,” by writing a summer sports recap that touched on the World Cup, LeBron
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, July 5, 2018
Notre Dame senior guard Arike Ogunbowale was named the 29th recipient of the Mary Garber Award on Thursday, recognizing her as the top female athlete in the ACC. The accolade is one of many on the season for Ogunbowale, adding to an already-illustrious campaign that saw her named First Team All-ACC, a Naismith Trophy semifinalist and