by Mike Wise | Apr 3, 2026 | Opinion, Sports
LeBron James turned 41 years old more than four months ago. Monday night, with 21 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, he became the oldest player to record a triple-double. Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Lakers forward surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and became the all-time NBA wins leader at 1,229 games.
John Thompson, Jr., the late, great Georgetown coach said comparing players across eras was foolish because “The moment you pick one is the moment you diminish the entire legacy of the other.”
LeBron will be the G.O.A.T. when he retires, if he is not already.
Still, with eternal apologies to Coach Thompson, it’s becoming clear that LeBron will soon have no peer, not even Michael Jordan.
There, I said it. LeBron will be the G.O.A.T. when he retires, if he is not already.
No player in any major-revenue team sport has been this good for this long.
Before Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry and others entered the pantheon of the best non-centers to ever play the game, Jordan, Magic and Bird were hoop’s holy trinity.
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Magic and Bird each played 13 seasons, retiring at 36 and 35, respectively. Michael Jordan played 15 seasons. Because he went straight from high school to the pros, this is LeBron’s 23rd season. He has been non-committal about retirement, but even if he hangs it up after this season he will have played a full decade more than Magic and Bird and eight years more than Jordan.
During a break in a game 2023, Jabari Smith, Jr., of the Houston Rockets told James, “Hey, you played against my dad your
by Ja'han Jones | Mar 31, 2026 | Opinion, Sports
Christian extremists and other far-right evangelicals are trying to turn an NBA bench-rider into a cause célèbre after his bigoted ramblings earned him a pink slip.
Basketball fans know former lottery pick Jaden Ivey’s stock had plummeted long before his recent, bizarre and occasionally public rants rebuking LGBTQ people and the NBA for its support of them, such as when he accused the league of celebrating “unrighteousness” in an Instagram video. Ivey had filmed himself rambling on an airplane and accusing league stars such as LeBron James and Steph Curry of being insufficiently religious. He also called Catholicism a “false religion” on social media.
On Monday, the Chicago Bulls announced that the team had released Ivey, and it’s not really a mystery why. A guard with limited shooting ability who relies heavily on his athleticism, Ivey had already been sidelined by injury for the season. His contract ends when the season does, and the only reason he was even on the roster was because the team that drafted him, the Detroit Pistons, chose to trade him this year rather than sign him to a contract extension.
But a bunch of MAGA evangelicals, such as Christian nationalist Sean Feucht, leaped on the news as if it were indicative of anti-Christian bias.
Being a Christian is now deemed “conduct detrimental to the team”? You are going to regret this. https://t.co/CEOVdKE2L0— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) March 30, 2026
But there was more where that came from.
I hope Jaden Ivey sues the Bulls. He’s being waived because he’s a Christian.This is ridiculous. https://t.co/arR8GpwIyB— Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) March 31, 2026
Every Christian must speak out against this Chicago Bulls***. https://t.co/lUWSrBeYmX— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas)
by Mike Wise | Mar 31, 2026 | Opinion, Sports
Ever since 2009, when Tiger Woods first crashed his life and marriage and the mask of perfection melted away with more accidents, DUIs and arrests, the focus has been golf. It’s always golf — not rehab, recovery or some other effort to ensure that the sporting great doesn’t kill himself or someone else the next time he gets behind the wheel.
Friday night, hours after Tiger Woods’ most recent brush with death and the law, CNN World International correspondent Patrick Snell intoned, with concern, “you have to think now that this is going to have an impact on any potential return to the sport at the Masters.”
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“It would be a crying shame if Tiger wasn’t captain in Adare Manor,” Ronan MacNamara chimed in for Irish Golf Magazine, referring to the course hosting the 2027 Ryder Cup in County Limerick.
“He’s the biggest needle mover in our sport,” Brad Faxon said on NBC.
This is not just Tiger Woods’ problem but also ours.
To recap the most recent incident: Woods was driving his Land Rover near his home in Jupiter Island, Fla., on Friday when he clipped a truck hauling a pressure-cleaner trailer on a two-lane road (speed limit: 30 mph). Woods’ SUV in rolled over. The golfing great crawled out through the passenger door uninjured. (The other driver was also uninjured.) Woods passed a breathalyzer but refused a urine test and was booked on charges of driving under the influence with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test.
This is not just Tiger Woods’ problem but also ours.
This is the truth
by Julianne McShane | Mar 27, 2026 | News, Sports
Transgender women will be barred from participating in women’s events at the next Olympics, according to a policy the International Olympic Committee announced Thursday.
The decision follows a demand for such a rule from U.S. President Donald Trump, and comes despite objections from researchers and advocates for trans athletes.
The policy change, announced ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, aligns with an executive order Trump issued last year directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to “use all appropriate and available measures” to ensure the IOC “amends the standards governing Olympic sporting events to promote fairness, safety, and the best interests of female athletes by ensuring that eligibility for participation in women’s sporting events is determined according to sex and not gender identity or testosterone reduction.”
The policy will apply to the 2028 Games and all others going forward and is not retroactive, the IOC said. In a video statement announcing the news, IOC President Kirsty Coventry cast the decision as a matter of fairness.
“At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat,” she said. “So, it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category. In addition, in some sports it would simply not be safe.”
As a result of the new IOC policy, eligibility for participation in the female category will be determined by a one-time gene test — the same one World Athletics, the international governing body for track and field, introduced last year. The IOC says the test is highly accurate and nonintrusive, requiring only a cheek swab or blood test.
The policy says athletes
by Evette Dionne | Mar 21, 2026 | Opinion, Sports
Iowa State basketball player Audi Crooks is one of the best athletes in the country, and that’s no exaggeration. In the past week alone, she has been named second-team All-American by The Associated Press and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, and she’s a semifinalist for the Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year. They’re well-deserved accolades as Crooks — the second-leading scorer in college women’s basketball — is coming off a monster season: averaging 25.5 points per game while shooting nearly 65% from the floor, grabbing 7.8 rebounds and scoring double figures in 97 consecutive games. She also became the fastest in Big 12 women’s basketball history to score 2,000 points, solidifying herself as a generational talent. Today she leads her 8th-seeded Cyclones into the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.
So why, given her remarkable collegiate career, is there such a cultural obsession over Crooks’ body?
So why, given her remarkable collegiate career, is there such a cultural obsession over Crooks’ body? Basketball is a sport dominated by size. When it comes to the 6-foot-3 Crooks, however, the criticism — mostly around the size of her body — is often as loud as the applause of her on-court performance. In a particularly troubling Reddit thread, Crooks is accused of being “out of shape,” of not taking her “conditioning” seriously and of being the reason Iowa State was bounced early from the Big 12 Tournament.
Such body-shaming insults are lobbed at athletes of all genders who defy narrow perceptions of how an athlete’s body should look. Just ask Serena Williams, who spent a record-breaking professional tennis career being accused of having a body that
by Chris Walker | Mar 13, 2026 | Donald Trump, FIFA, Gianni Infantino, Iran, iran war, News, Sports, World Cup
In a Truth Social post on Thursday, President Donald Trump suggested that the Iranian national soccer team should not come to the U.S. for the FIFA World Cup this summer — remarks that some social media users interpreted as a threat. “The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup, but I really don’t believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety,”…
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