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Lunar Owls BC
Lunar Owls Basketball Club, also known as Lunar Owls BC, is an American professional basketball team. They are a member of the Unrivaled basketball league, and made their debut in January 2025. The teams are based in Miami, Florida and the Owls are led by coach DJ Sackmann. History On October 24, 2024, the Unrivaled basketball league announced the names and logos of six teams joining its league, which are Laces BC, Lunar Owls BC, Mist BC, Rose BC, Phantom BC and Vinyl BC. Lunar Owls BC, along with the other five teams, will be based in Miami, Florida for the inaugural 2025 season, before the teams travel more frequently during the 2026 season. Alex Bazzell, the president of Unrivaled, confirmed the league owns all six teams. Six head coaches were later hired on November 15. Roster On November 20, 2024, the six head coaches collaborated on balancing and choosing the rosters for the six teams. After the selection show, Lunar Owls BC's roster was finalized with Napheesa Collier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unrivaled (basketball)
Unrivaled is a women's professional three-on-three basketball league in the United States. History The league was founded in 2023 by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, in part to allow WNBA players to play domestically and to bypass complications from the WNBA's prioritization rule for players who choose to play overseas in the WNBA offseason. Unrivaled's inaugural season began on January 17, 2025, in Medley, Florida near Miami, with plans for the 2026 season to have games played across the United States. The league announced Stewart as the first signed player on July 9, 2024. The league's first-ever 1-on-1 single-elimination tournament, which took place February 10 to 14, 2025, was won by Collier. The league's first-ever championship was won by Rose BC on March 17, 2025. Rules and regulations Games are played on a full court with two ends, and consist of three seven-minute periods followed by a "winning score" fourth period played under Elam Ending conditions. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakira Austin
Shakira Austin (born July 25, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball at Maryland and Ole Miss. College career Austin was rated as the fourth ranked player in the nation in the 2018 recruiting class and the second ranked forward. She was also a 2018 McDonald's High School All-American. Austin signed with Maryland out of high school. Following her first season at Maryland in 2018–19, Austin was selected to the All-Big Ten Freshman Team after a school record 89 blocks. Following Austin's second and final season at Maryland in 2019–20, she was named to the All-Big Ten Second Team. After her sophomore season at Maryland, Austin announced her transfer to Ole Miss. Austin was awarded the Gillom Trophy in 2021. Professional career WNBA On April 11, 2022, Austin was drafted third overall by the Washington Mystics in the 2022 WNBA draft. Overseas In Septemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 In American Women's Basketball
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediapro
Mediaproducción, S.L.U., better known as Mediapro, is a multimedia communications group in Spain founded in April 1994 in Barcelona. The company is well involved in movie and television production. The company holds branch offices in Madrid, Seville, Girona, Lisbon, Madeira, Rabat, Budapest, Miami, Florida, Miami, Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Rio de Janeiro, Porto, Qatar, Amsterdam, and Tenerife. Southwind, that maintains different teams and operation entities across Hong Kong, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom is the majority shareholder. Minority stakes held by WPP and the founding partner. Operations Canada On 21 February 2019, Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) announced that Mediapro would serve as the exclusive media rightsholder of Canada Soccer, including rights to the Canadian Premier League, the Canadian Championship, and national team matches. In April, Mediapro announced OneSoccer, a subscription service that would carry this content. On 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Illustrated
''Sports Illustrated'' (''SI'') is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954. Founded by Stuart Scheftel, it was the first magazine with a circulation of over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. It is also known for its annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, swimsuit issue, which has been published since 1964, and has spawned other complementary media works and products. Owned until 2018 by Time Inc., it was sold to Authentic Brands Group (ABG) following the sale of Time Inc. to Meredith Corporation. The Arena Group (formerly theMaven, Inc.) was subsequently awarded a 10-year license to operate the ''Sports Illustrated''–branded editorial operations, while ABG Brand licensing, licenses the brand for other non-editorial ventures and products. In January 2024, The Arena Group missed a quarterly licensing payment, leading ABG to terminate the company's license. Arena, in turn, laid off the publication's editorial staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtney Williams
Courtney Monae Williams (born May 11, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Williams completed her high school basketball career at Charlton County High School. She signed with the University of South Florida and enrolled at the school in the fall of 2012. Early life Williams grew up in Folkston, Georgia, a town with under 5,000 people. In her childhood she slept with a basketball and said she wanted to play in the WNBA. Her father said that she "didn’t play with dolls or any of that growing up. She was jumping on my dirt bike, riding four-wheelers. Mostly, though, she was hanging with the fellas out there on the court banging and balling.” She played basketball for the Indians at Charlton County High School. Her mother Michelle Williams (then Michelle Granger) also played basketball for the same high school 22 years earlier. Michelle set the single-game scoring record when she s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bleacher Report
''Bleacher Report'' (often abbreviated as B/R) is a website that focuses on sports and sports culture. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, with offices in New York City and London. ''Bleacher Report'' was acquired by Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System in August 2012 for $175 million. In March 2018, ''Bleacher Report'' and Turner Sports launched B/R Live, a subscription video streaming service featuring live broadcasts of several major sports events, although the service was discontinued in 2021 and merged with the company's mobile app. ''Bleacher Report'' owns multi-media social network House of Highlights, and its branding was used for Max's sports coverage prior to 2025. History Founding: 2005–2011 ''Bleacher Report'' was formed in 2005 by Sam Erez, Harry Ryan, Bryan Goldberg, and Dave Nemetz—four friends and sports fans who were high school classmates at Menlo School in Atherton, California. Inspired by Ken Griffey Jr., they wanted to start writing about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Brink
Cameron Lee Brink (born December 31, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball at Stanford Cardinal women's basketball, Stanford. She attended Mountainside High School and Southridge High School (Beaverton, Oregon), Southridge High School, both in her hometown of Beaverton, Oregon, where she was a McDonald's All-American Game, McDonald's All-American and ranked the number three player in her class by ESPN. As a freshman at Stanford, Brink helped her team win the 2021 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, national championship. In her sophomore season, she shared Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year, Pac-12 Player of the Year honors and led her team to the 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament#Final Four – Minneapolis, Minnesota, Final Four. As a junior, Brink received the WBCA Defensive Player of the Year award and be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Cloud
Natasha "Tash" Cloud (born February 22, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Early life During high school, Cloud led Cardinal O'Hara to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class AAAA state finals as a junior and to the second round as a senior. She earned First Team All-Delco honors in both her junior and senior year. As a junior, she additionally earned a Pennsylvania AAAA Third Team All-State selection. Natasha Cloud gained recognition after being named AAAA First Team All-State as a senior. During the season, she averaged 12.3 points, 7.9 rebounds, 5.2 assists, and 4.0 steals per game. She earned the Michael Menichini Award in 2009. Following her high school career, Cloud received a scholarship to play at the University of Maryland as a Terp. College career University of Maryland 2010–2011: Cloud played in 31 of 32 games of her freshman year and star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skylar Diggins-Smith
Skylar Kierra Diggins (born August 2, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Diggins was drafted third overall by the Tulsa Shock in the 2013 WNBA draft. In high school, she was the National Gatorade Player of the Year and the Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year. She played college basketball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and led the team to three consecutive Final Fours and two consecutive NCAA championship appearances. She finished her Notre Dame career ranked first in points and steals, second in assists, and as a two-time winner of the Nancy Lieberman Award as the top point guard in the nation. Early life Diggins was born in South Bend, Indiana. She is the daughter of Tige Diggins and Renee Scott. Diggins has three younger brothers Tige, Destyn, and Maurice and one younger sister, Hanneaf. She also grew up playing softball. Diggins was a four-year varsity basketball letter winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami, Florida
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States, Southeast after Atlanta metropolitan area, Atlanta, and the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, ninth-largest in the United States. With a population of 442,241 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Miami is the List of municipalities in Florida, second-most populous city in Florida, after Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville. Miami has the List of tallest buildings in the United States#Cities with the most skyscrapers, third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over List of tallest buildings in Miami, 300 high-rises, 70 of which exceed . Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allisha Gray
Allisha Gray ( ; born January 12, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She won a gold medal in Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 3x3 tournament, women's 3x3 basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball, North Carolina Tar Heels and South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball, South Carolina Gamecocks. After she was selected 4th overall by the Wings in the 2017 WNBA draft, Gray won the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award, WNBA Rookie of the Year award. Early life She was a member of the U18 USA Basketball National Team as well as the 3-on-3 National Team. Named 3A state player of the year three times. She led Washington County to a three-year record of 88–4 that included a perfect 32–0 record and a 3A state championship in 2010–11. As a junior, Gray averaged 32.0 points and 8.5 rebounds en route t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
