Offside Plays

In briefly choosing to honor the disgraced Fabulous Moolah at WrestleMania, WWE overlooked three African-American sisters and their friend who were actual pioneers in women's wrestling.

At the top level of men’s college basketball, where teams harbor national championship hopes and NBA talent, most of the competitors are African-American. But o…

For most of January 2018, one of the worst sexual abuse scandals ever in sports dominated the news cycle, as former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to life in prison. During the trial, more than 100 sexual abuse victims testified about the predatory environment Nassar had created. Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman delivered...

Order from education minister criticised as sexist, but government blames disruption caused by Cyclone Gita

Nearly 50 years ago, a group of Wyoming football players decided to take a stand against what they perceived to be racial discrimination by an opponent and it cost them.

One question sat on the mind of 50 tennis fans in Wilmington, North Carolina, so much so that each of those people penned letters to turn that question on Katri…

"People thought it was okay to call me fat to my face."

Selling drinks to rich dads on a golf course was not the “ideal summer job” I thought it would be.

Predominantly white "nonrevenue" athletes like me are the real beneficiaries of college athletics.

Veteran sportscaster Mary Carillo spent days with Court at her ministry in Australia, where she feeds the homeless and espouses the idea that homosexuality can be cured.

Two years ago, I interviewed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the main stage at the National Book Festival before an appreciative crowd in the nation’s capital. We were b…

MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon will resign before the week is over, The State News has learned.

Joining the historic ranks of Olympic dissenters, the first openly gay US Winter Olympian has challenged the Oval Office.