CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia student charged with fatally shooting three football players after a field trip over the weekend shot one of the victims while he was sleeping and appeared to be aiming at “certain people,” prosecutors said Wednesday. Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, appeared via video link from jail for his …
Family and friends of three college football players, gunned down at the University of Virginia, called their slayings “heartbreaking and tragic.” Cavaliers linebacker D’Sean Perry and wide receivers Devin Chandler and Lavel Davis Jr. were allegedly killed by one-time football player Christopher Darnell Jones on Sunday night, a little more than 30 hours after team’s …
No one, it seems, is willing to play Donda Academy and its roster of top college basketball prospects. The reason is well-chronicled: Donda founder and billionaire entertainer Kanye West has alienated much of society with his repeated antisemitic hate speech. What about the players? They had a dream of playing at Donda Academy: a star-studded …
A rising star who will be the first Latino lead in a superhero movie, and a Mexican American who is also TV’s first Native American showrunner. The director of original series at Netflix and the head of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A pioneer in Latino Urbanism and the creative …
Four Michigan State University football players were suspended from the team after they appeared to have been involved in an off-field altercation with a rival, the institution said Sunday. The suspension was ordered after school officials looked at video from Saturday’s 29-7 loss in Ann Arbor against home team Michigan and discovered the four were …
As uncertainty swirls around the future of Kanye West’s Donda Academy, tournaments dropping the blue-chip basketball program from their schedules, event organizers and voices on social media are calling for support to players stuck in a seemingly precarious situation. The highest profile advocate: Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown, who originally announced he was sticking with …
Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford spoke Wednesday with genuine optimism, not the manufactured variety so prevalent during the first six weeks of the Rams’ season. The coach and quarterback had reason to be positive: After navigating through seemingly endless injuries, the Rams will be closer to full strength Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers. Receiver …
Since Hannah White was 7 years old, there was one name at the top of every scouting report. Croix Bethune. White, a USC forward who grew up playing on rival clubs against Bethune in the Atlanta area, remembered coaches focusing on the diminutive midfielder. Don’t let Bethune get the ball, don’t let her face up, …
