Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Another domino has fallen in the Ohio Valley Conference–Big South (OVC-Big South) football partnership. This leaves Tennessee State University, the lone HBCU in the league, as an HBCU power in a conference with dwindling membership. Tennessee Tech University announced it will leave the OVC after the 2025–26 season to join the Southern Conference (SoCon). The move ends a relationship with the OVC that began in 1949. Effective July 1, 2026, the Golden Eagles’ move adds a program fresh off a 2024 football championship and a preseason Top 25 ranking to…
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Game On: Sports News, Highlights & Commentary As LeBron James enters his record-setting 23rd NBA season and superstar Luka Doncic back for his first full season in L.A., the Lakers are tied with the NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder, the Golden State Warriors and the New York Knicks for the most nationally televised games in the league.The NBA announced the regular season schedule Thursday, and the Lakers’ slate highlights the league’s growing number of broadcast partners. The Lakers open the season at home against the Golden State Warriors on Oct. 21 on NBC, have ABC/ESPN’s 5 p.m. primetime slot against…
Game On: Sports News, Highlights & Commentary The 2025 NFL preseason officially got underway last Thursday with the Los Angeles Chargers hammering the Detroit Lions 34-7 in the annual Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio.To no surprise, fantasy football standouts like Jahmyr Gibbs and Justin Herbert did not suit up as both Dan Campbell and Jim Harbaugh opted to sit most of their respective starters for this early exhibition. Instead, backups like Trey Lance got their chance to showcase themselves as the August 26 roster cutdown date looms large.The game also allowed for a handful of rookies to get…
Game On: Sports News, Highlights & Commentary A busy summer of transfers may not be over just yet but as a new Premier League season nears kickoff, some of the division’s most notable teams are already stacked with a handful of fresh talents that are set to make an impact in their first stints in England.Premier League clubs spent heavily to sign some of the best players in Europe, with Liverpool and Manchester United forking over the biggest transfer fees of the window so far, each time scooping up talent from the Bundesliga. The Reds’ $133 million move for Florian…
Game On: Sports News, Highlights & Commentary The announcement could not have been more unfortunately timed. On the morning after the Dodgers had been swept by the Angels and fallen out of first place in the National League West for the first time in 108 days, the email to media members started this way: “Ever wonder how a player like Mookie Betts gets in the zone for the MLB Postseason?”This is not on Betts, not at all. He is simply the front man for a campaign in which Corona Beer and its advertising partners had pre-timed an otherwise harmless press…
Game On: Sports News, Highlights & Commentary Bill ConnellyCloseBill ConnellyESPN Staff WriterBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.Ryan O’HanlonCloseRyan O’HanlonESPN.com writerRyan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.”Aug 14, 2025, 05:00 AM ETCan you believe we’re already back? Well, neither can we.It seems like just last week Liverpool were celebrating their second Premier League title — and their first one in front of fans. And it seems like just yesterday that Chelsea were…
Black Voices: News, Culture & Community from Across the Nation Police block the entrance to a Target after a shooting in Austin, Texas, on August 11. (Stephen Spillman/AP via CNN Newsource) By Jen Christensen, CNN Editor’s note: EDITOR’S NOTE: Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters.In the US: Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.Globally: The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact information for crisis centers around the world. (CNN) — After a random shooting in Austin, Texas, left three people dead, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said that the…
Scientific study & Expedition: Discover the Globe Via Research Study and Advancement An invasive tick selections is slipping its ways right into a lot more parts of the country, as heating temperature levels aid it spread out an obscure infection that can leave individuals with crippling indicators, and in unusual circumstances, dead. In May, scientists at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Terminal in New Sanctuary uncovered for the really very first time that the longhorned tick had in fact become a provider for the microorganisms that develops the Ehrlichiosis infection. With circumstances currently increasing, that was a large resource of concern.…
Tech Trends & Innovation: The Latest in Tech News Rumors about a touchscreen-equipped smart home device from Apple have been circulating for years, periodically bolstered by leaked references in Apple’s software updates. But a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman indicates that Apple’s ambitions might extend beyond HomePods with screens attached. Gurman claims that Apple is working on a “tabletop robot” that “resembles an iPad mounted on a movable limb that can swivel and reposition itself to follow users in a room.” The device will also turn toward people who are addressing it or toward people whose attention it’s trying to…
Tech Trends & Innovation: The Latest in Tech News More than 160 workers at video game company Blizzard Entertainment have voted to unionize.The workers, who produce in-house cinematics, animation, trailers, promotional videos and other narrative content, are just the latest batch in the video game industry to unionize, with more than 6,000 having organized across the U.S. and Canada. A wave of organizing in the industry has been driven in recent years by such issues as crunch-time hours before a product releases, job insecurity and workplace harassment.The newly unionized workers are largely based in Irvine, where Blizzard Entertainment’s campus is…