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Apr 15, 2021 The Derek Chauvin trial currently playing out in Minnesota serves as context for what got us here, to a place of small progress in college basketball. The sports world cannot fix serious societal issues, but it can react to them, and the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a white cop, among other traumatic events in the spring of 2020, spawned a reckoning on U.S. college campuses. In one corner, at least, an embarrassment is being addressed. Black men’s basketball coaches are being hired at a significant rate. Athletes spoke up. Athletes marched. Athletes voted. College...

"That incident, we've moved on from it," Nichols said. "We don't even speak about it." Nichols, who was brought on as an assistant during the 2017-18 season, has stepped in as the Lions' interim coach. The 1995 Roosevelt graduate shares a close relationship with Moore, and even though his "brother" can't be on the sidelines with him, Nichols has vowed to do everything he can to steer the team in the right direction. So far, so good. More than 12,000 Hoosiers have died from COVID-19 since March 2020. There are real names, faces and human stories behind that staggering number. This Sunday, The ...

Then, it all came crashing down. "I knew something wasn't right for sure just because I couldn't really put too much pressure on (my left knee)," Glass said. "But for the first week, I didn't even know that (my left ACL) was torn, and our trainers were telling me that it might have been something with my hamstring. I didn't find out until about a week later when I took an MRI. "That's when they told me." Glass said he sustained his season-ending knee injury after catching a pass and planting awkwardly in a Week 6 win at LaPorte on Sept. 25. He walked off the field under his own power thinking...

“She’s certainly one of the top all-arounders in the state."

"That's what it's all about, putting Region basketball on a platform for everyone to see."