Sports Poets Society

Photo The Boston Globe. Getty Images Dans les années 80, le meneur des Lakers de Los Angeles et l’ailier des Boston Celtics ont incarné tous les clivages états-uniens : racial, social, géographique… Un duel sportif qui aura ressuscité une NBA moribonde. «Mon but,  c’était de ramener deux ou trois de ses dents à la maison.»     - Larry Bird ancien ailier des Boston Celtics 1 Aug 2026 - Libération Par Romain Métairie  Earvin Johnson a un rictus. Assis dans les travées vides du Longacre, une salle de théâtre nichée en plein Broadway, l’ancien joueur des Lakers assiste en ce mois de mars 2012 aux répétitions d’une nouvelle pièce : Magic/Bird. Et il peste : «Mon personnage ne sourit pas, alors que c’est moi le type souriant et jovial. Même quand j’avais envie de vous briser la nuque ou de vous tuer.» Ces pensées inavouables remontent aux années 80, lorsque «Magic» Johnson ne devait céder ni aux insultes ni aux coups bas et autres fourberies assénés par ses meill...

Reversing Michigan’s Fortunes As players become more transient in the N.I.L. era, coaches like Dusty May are often the main attraction.  Candace Buckner - The Athletic The New York Times - Mercoledì 8 aprile 2026 Pagina 1 INDIANAPOLIS — The golf carts were ready to go outside the locker room of the University of Michigan men’s basketball team early Tuesday morning. One was for players like forward Yaxel Lendeborg, his shirt soaked as he bear-hugged the school’s newest trophy, and point guard Elliot Cadeau, the Final Four’s most outstanding player. The two players were still wearing ski goggles, the way champions do to survive postgame celebrations. But the golf carts stayed in park, unable to head toward the victors’ news conference at Lucas Oil Stadium after Michigan’s 69-63 national championship win against UConn, because one of them remained empty. The game’s biggest star was missing. “Where’d Coach go?” a Michigan staff member asked the driver in an attempt to locate Dusty May....

ROBERT DEUTSCH/IMAGN IMAGES The Michigan Wolverines, including coach Dusty May (gold shirt) and the players,  acknowledge fans after their NCAA title game win. Michigan vs. UConn - National Championship NCAA tournament extended highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZLXQ62lWlQ Michigan defense holds off UConn  Wolverines snare NCAA title on strength of defense, not offense Wolverines surge past Huskies despite offensive struggles to win NCAA men’s national title game.  Jordan Mendoza USA TODAY 8 apr 2026 - USA TODAY US Edition INDIANAPOLIS – You wouldn’t think Michigan would be all smiles at halftime. Yes, it had a four-point lead over UConn in the national championship game, but it was an unattractive fourpoint lead. It was arguably the worst first-half performance of the season. Not only did the Wolverines fail to make a single 3-pointer in the first half – the only time that’s happened this season – but there were no makes outside of the paint. An awful first 20 m...

Brendan Marks The New York Times - Mercoledì 8 aprile 2026 Pagina 31 INDIANAPOLIS — There are no words for moments like these. Or at least none that Dan Hurley, the men’s basketball coach at Connecticut, prepared. But minutes after the game was over — after the confetti rained down at Lucas Oil Stadium, celebrating Michigan’s 69-63 national championship win over UConn — Hurley had to say something. There’s no stopping the hurt when you finish second, not on the final Monday night of the college basketball season. But it is a coach’s duty to at least dress the wound. To saddle up next to Alex Karaban, who won 126 games with UConn in four years, including two national championships, and pull him in tight on a walk down a back tunnel. To whisper the only thing that could maybe, possibly, transcend the magnitude of a career-ending loss: “You know I love you, man. ” There is much to love: not just about this one game, or season, but everything Karaban has represented for UConn over the past...

Un impianto enorme - Il Lucas Oil Stadium di Indianapolis (capienza da 70.000 spettatori)  ospiterà le Final Four maschili come nel 2010, 2015 (foto) e 2021 UConn sfida Illinois e insegue il terzo titolo in quattro anni, m a Arizona-Michigan sembra una finale anticipata 4 Apr 2026 - La Gazzetta dello Sport di ANDREA BUONGIOVANNI  Dieci milioni e 300.000 telespettatori a partita. È l’audience-media statunitense del Torneo NCAA 2026, con le Final Four da disputarsi tra oggi e lunedì (dirette per l’Italia su Dazn). Mai, dal 1993 con tre sole sfide ancora in programma - si avevano avuti numeri così alti. Rispetto allo scorso anno, per esempio, si registra un +9%. Insomma: è di nuovo March Madness-mania . E non è un caso che l’ultimo atto della stagione, in programma davanti agli oltre 70.000 dell’Oil Stadium di Indianapolis, sia attesissimo. Illinois-UConn  Si parte così, stanotte alle 0.09 italiane. È sfida tra squadre arrivate sin qui abbastanza a sorpresa . Testa di serie ...

L’arrière centrafricain de Santa Clara, Thierry Darlan,  est devenu le  premier joueur à fouler un parquet NCAA après avoir joué en G-League. La March Madness, le tournoi universitaire américain, démarre aujourd’hui au bout d’une saison où la NCAA a mené une bataille judiciaire. Sa cible : les joueurs de G-League ou de NBA tentés par un retour lucratif dans le monde amateur. 19 Mar 2026 - L'Équipe SAMI SADIK Sous le soleil de Floride, les fans de l’équipe de basket de l’université d’Alabama ont reçu deux douches froides. Avant ses premiers pas dans la March Madness , vendredi à Tampa, le Crimson Tide a perdu pour de bon deux joueurs majeurs. Le premier, Aden Holloway, a été arrêté pour possession de drogue. Le second, Charles Bediako, a jeté l’éponge après une bataille devant les tribunaux pour y réclamer… le droit de jouer. Car le natif de l’Ontario a commencé la saison avec Detroit en NBA avant de revenir en Alabama, où il avait passé deux ans avant de se présenter à la draf...

Vince Compagnone Los Angeles Times ‘HE JUST WANTED TO PLAY’ Campbell, playing the Warriors in 1994, brought an easygoing, warm demeanor that endeared him to teammates and fans alike. He remains Clemson’s career scoring leader with 1,880 points. Inglewood native who won hearts with his easygoing demeanor and an NBA title with Detroit was 57. 4 Dec 2025 - Los Angeles Times Former Laker Campbell dies By Broderick Turner Former Lakers center Elden Campbell, who played 8 1⁄2 seasons of his 15-year NBA career with the Los Angeles team he watched while growing up here and attending Morningside High, died Monday. He was 57. “He was a man to whom family meant everything — generous, funny, disciplined and kind, but could shut you down if required,” the Campbell family said in a statement Wednesday. “A man of God, he passed doing what he loved; fishing out on the ocean, enjoying his idea of an ideal day.” More details about the cause of death are not known. Former Lakers teammates and friends of...

https://indianahq.com/isiah-thomas/ (Contributor: Rob Jiang, Photo: AP / Bill Ingraham) Isiah Thomas Biography Isiah Lord Thomas III is a former American basketball player who played for the Indiana University Hoosiers for two seasons between 1979 and 1981. At Indiana, Thomas played under head coach Bob Knight and the pair led Indiana to win the 1981 NCAA National Championship, defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels. Isiah Thomas left Indiana after his sophomore season and was the number two overall pick in the 1981 NBA draft. Isiah Thomas played for the Detroit Pistons for 13 seasons. Isiah Thomas would go on to be a 12 time NBA All-Star until his final season before his retirement in 1993. With the Pistons, Isiah Thomas won back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990. Name: Isiah “Zeke” Lord Thomas III Position: Point Guard Nationality: USA Age: 64 years old Birthday: April 30th, 1961 Hometown: Chicago, Illinois High School: St. Joseph (Westchester, Illinois) Height: 6’1″ (185 cm...