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Phil Jackson’s NBA teams won 11 NBA titles. But, Jackson has won 12, not 11 pro basketball championships. And on Saturday, September 22nd, a new motion picture will reveal details of the mostly forgotten 12th championship and explore the 35-year old link between Jackson and Jim Drucker, now the owner of ...

It’s rare when a franchise shift is made with applause vs. boos, but the ever expanding National Lacrosse League seemed to pull off the unusual Thursday, announcing an AM shift of one of their most storied franchises and replacing it in the same city with the same name with a ...

Legendary NFL quarterback Brett Favre returns to the SiriusXM airwaves this season to host a weekly show on SiriusXM NFL Radio, SiriusXM’s exclusive 24/7 NFL channel. He made his season debut on Tuesday, and host live every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to noon ET. Favre and co-host Bruce Murray will discuss the headline news happening around ...

25 years ago (!) today I was at this Orioles-A’s game to see the debut of Fordham‘s own Miguel Jimenez with Michael Cerra, Joe Rizzo, Ron Monticone, Miguel’s cousin Alex and his friend. USA Today Baseball Weekly’s great Paul White was there to chronicle it! Nice Debut, Ugly Strat Card LEADING ...

Origin stories aren’t just for superheroes. True Batman fans know about Bruce Wayne’s parents being murdered in front of his eyes, and those who love Superman know he left Krypton just before its destruction and ended up on Earth. And while baseball’s lineage is long disputed and quite a story ...

For the first time in Topps history, the iconic company has given over the reins to someone else. Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper has created his own Topps baseball card set, featuring top players in the league, his all-time favorites – and even guys with the best hair. Topps X ...

XTECH, the fastest-growing maker of lightweight and durable protective pads will begin its sixth season amidst record growth sales and adoption by coaches, equipment staff and most importantly players, marking a year to year increase of almost four times where the company was just a year ago. “Our journey in ...

La Vida Baseball, the fastest-growing online community for the best in Latino baseball storytelling, will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with record growth and new partnerships beyond expectations from when the digital media company was launched just 18 months ago. Heading into September’s heated pennant races La Vida Baseball – owned ...

Lawrence Tech Athletics (Southfield, Mich.) is now available to watch every week on Fox Sports Detroit with the “LTU Sports Report” at 4:30 p.m. Mondays. The weekly half-hour highlight show will feature 22 episodes from Monday, Sept. 3 through April. Due to Labor Day, the first episode will air at ...

There is a famous political cartoon from the 1860 U.S. Presidential election, depicting Abraham Lincoln winning a baseball game against fellow candidates John Bell, Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge. The Currier & Ives piece uses terminology like “put out,” “strike,” “short stop,” “home run” and “fair ball,” words that would be familiar to voters even then, ...