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Manny Millan/Sports Illustrated In 1984, the year after her Women’s American Basketball Association championship victory with the Dallas Diamonds, Nancy Lieberman was a reigning champion in a league that folded almost as quickly as it started. In the midst of deliberating her next plan of action to continue playing basketball, Lieberman received word that David Stern, then NBA commissioner, wanted her to come to New York to speak with him. Little did she know she’d be involved in the beginning conversations of an idea that led to the most innovative and progressive women’s league in his...

Music and business mogul Master P is serious about building generational wealth, such much so that he claims he has already secured million-dollar deals for his teenage sons Hercy and Mercy as they pursue their hoop dreams.  Hercy, 19, is headed to Tennessee State University on a basketball scholarship in the fall, and if the odds are truly in his favor with the NCAA changing rules on how players can profit off their own likenesses, then he will have $2.5 million awaiting him, his father is saying. “We have a lot of deals on the table for not only Hercy, but for Mercy,” Master P told...

USA Basketball Shares Team Members Favorite Olympics Memories Date:   Whether you are an athlete or not, the Olympics have provided fans and participants alike with a plethora of memorable moments.  April 14 marks 100 days out from the opening of the Tokyo Olympics and USAB.com reached out to current and past USA Basketball athletes, coaches and staff for some of their most memorable Olympic memories.  Here is a look at their most memorable moments from the Olympics:   Mike Krzyzewski, 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Olympic Team head coach and 1992 U.S. Olympic Team assistant coach It was an ho...

City may allow side-by-sides for city streets Hays Daily News Side-by-side alternative vehicles may show up before long on the city streets of Hays, if enthusiasts of the small, nimble non-automobiles get their wish. Used primarily for sport or agriculture, the smaller than standard, four-wheel vehicles are popular with farmers and with those who like to play on sand dunes and off-road. At Thursday’s regular work session of the city commission, a group of residents asked the commissioners to approve an ordinance allowing them on the streets of Hays. The vehicles, some of which can go upward...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — To hear many of those in charge of Division I programs tell it, the state of play for women’s sports could get worse, not better, under proposals that would put more money in the pockets of some college athletes. Via a new Associated Press survey of athletic directors, and in conversations with ADs and conference commissioners during March Madness, a picture emerged of concern for sports other than the two largest revenue-generators, football and men’s basketball. The AP asked 357 ADs a series of online questions shortly before various differences between th...