NBA and WNBA to launch national network of youth basketball leagues in New Orleans among 11 cities
Jr. NBA Leagues is a national network of youth basketball leagues for boys and girls ages 6-14.
view moreSoccer: Local group aims to bring USL franchise to New Orleans by 2025
The United Soccer League today announced it has entered an exclusive partnership with USL NOLA, a group dedicated to bringing a professional soccer club to Greater New Orleans with the intent to launch a USL Championship men’s team by 2025.
view moreShaun King to be Inducted into Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame
Shaun King, who led Tulane football to one of the greatest seasons in program history, has been selected for induction into the Allstate Sugar Bowl’s Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
view moreFormer local boxing great Jerry Pellegrini dies
Pellegrini began to fight professionally as a teenager, but that came a year after he started his other profession as a barber, which gave him the nickname “The Battling Barber.”
view moreMetairie’s Adam Atkins reaches match play in Junior Gold
The Metairie native survived three cuts and 26 games on grueling conditions to reach the match play round Wednesday in the annual Junior Gold Championships.
view moreBilly Ray Hobley to be inducted into Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame
Dillard star went on to longtime career with Harlem Globetrotters.
view moreMarques Colston to be inducted into Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame
Colston arrived in New Orleans as a seventh-round draft choice of the New Orleans Saints in 2006. He became a star as a rookie.
view moreAshley Brignac to enter Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame in Class of 2022
When collegiate head softball coaches from around the nation were courting John Curtis senior pitcher Ashley Brignac in 2007, she returned home from an official visit to the University of Tennessee with the Volunteers uppermost on her list of choices.
view moreJesuit’s Fr. John Brown to speak at Life Resources Bottom Line Luncheon on Wednesday, July 13
Originally from near Eunice, Louisiana, Fr. John Brown worked as a project manager for web development firms in Houston and Denver before discerning a call to join the Jesuit order in 2000.
view moreTom Schwaner: A New Orleans baseball institution
Except for the years he played professionally, he was a fixture in local baseball, capped by his 14-year tenure as the head baseball coach at the University of New Orleans.
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