basketball

Jason Collins' decision to become the first openly-gay player in American pro sports may have inspired a high school basketball coach to follow suit.

The Louisiana High School Boys and Girls All-Star Basketball Games will be played at the Gold Dome. We are playing  host to  2013 Boys and Girls High School Basketball All-Star Games on Saturday, March 16th. This is the first time the event is being held in Shreveport-Bossier.

The Northern Illinois Huskies' men's basketball team isn't very good. They are spectacularly bad, actually. On Saturday, Northern Illinois broke its own NCAA Division I record for least points in a first half in the shot clock era by scoring just four points before halftime in a 42-25 loss to Eastern Michigan.

Los Angeles Lakers star and Spain's Pau Gasol put a killing on the United States, but Kevin Durant one-upped him by putting up 30 points, leading the United States to a 107-100 victory.

Laylan is a 20-year-old Iraqi native who’s also the star player of an all-female basketball team she started. That fact alone may not seem like much to a lot of us in America, but to the people of the country who are still suffering through gender inequality, it’s a huge deal.

Savannah McMillian-Christmas stumbled on to the court during Game 4 of the NBA Finals at the Pepsi Center in Denver between the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Lakers. Her goal was reportedly to meet her athletic obsession, Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin.

The Renewal Team at Community Renewal will join the men’s and women’s basketball teams at Centenary College to promote caring in our community this Saturday, Jan. 7th.

You never forget your first love and you can bet you never forget your first title. The Dallas Mavericks, in business since 1980, have claimed their first NBA title in franchise history by knocking off the vaunted Miami Heat. The Vancouver Canucks, who’ve been in the NHL since 1970, came oh-so-close to  hoisting the Stanley Cup for the first time this season, but couldn’t skate by the Boston Bruin

They're taking each other on at hoops...and some local kids get to watch -- for free! Members of the Bossier City Police Local 645 and Bossier City Firefighters Local 1051 will square off in a friendly game of basketball during half-time at tomorrow night's NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament Championship game...