Luke Cyphers

1 week ago | sportico.com | Michael McCann |Luke Cyphers

Former players alleging sexual abuse by the multimillionaire founder of New York City’s Riverside Hawks basketball program—which pioneered the elite travel-team model of youth sports—have filed an answer in their lawsuit saying the defendant, Riverside Church, missed the mark in the church’s motion for summary judgment. Three plaintiffs, including 56-year-old Robert L.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Michael McCann |Luke Cyphers

Former players alleging sexual abuse by the multimillionaire founder of New York City’s Riverside Hawks basketball program—which pioneered the elite travel-team model of youth sports—have filed an answer in their lawsuit saying the defendant, Riverside Church, missed the mark in the church’s motion for summary judgment. Three plaintiffs, including 56-year-old Robert L.

1 week ago | sportico.com | Luke Cyphers

Five English Premier League clubs will be simultaneously scrapping Sunday for three slots in next year’s UEFA Champions League, with the winners snatching not only pride but tens of millions of dollars in future revenue. The top five in the league standings earn a spot in the lucrative Champions League, with two already claimed by EPL champion Liverpool and second-place Arsenal.

1 month ago | sportico.com | Luke Cyphers |Michael McCann

It’s been four decades since Robert Holmes, now 56, played basketball for the Riverside Hawks in Harlem. The famed youth basketball program was closely affiliated with the Riverside Church—an institution founded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. that became famous in the 1960s for its support of the civil rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War—and produced such NBA players as Metta World Peace (formerly Ron Artest), Elton Brand, Mark Jackson, Kenny Smith, Chris Mullin and Ed Pinckney.

1 month ago | sportico.com | Luke Cyphers

A former farm team of the Colorado Rockies has renamed itself, simultaneously showing support for a threatened species and offering reparations, of sorts, for a tweet that went sideways six years ago. The Grand Junction Jackalopes announced this week they will play parts of the upcoming season as the Grand Junction Humpback Chubs, the alternate identity of the Pioneer Baseball League’s western Colorado club.