Nolan Smith

VFW and Crescent Bay Advisors have parlayed their success from Laguna Beach Little League postseason play into hot starts in the 2013 Little League District 55 Tournament of Champions. Both VFW (Majors) and CBA (AAA, Minor) won their first two games...

Duke faithful used to worry that coaching the pros would lure Mike Krzyzewski away from the Blue Devils. The Celtics called, the Lakers called, and heaven knows who else. Never mind the notion that a college basketball lifer wouldn’t translate...

Duke’s Shane Battier and North Carolina’s Joseph Forte shared 2001 ACC basketball player of the year honors as media balloting deadlocked at 32 votes each. If ever another season was going to produce such an improbable tie, it’s this...

The Lakers were recently awarded a disabled player exception for the injured Jordan Hill (hip), giving the team an additional spending tool. The exception can be used to sign a player for up to $1,781,800 through the remainder of the season. It can be...

Donaldson's double-double leads Wildcat girls to victory The Mulvane girls' team may have nuzzled in for the holiday break a couple hours too early Thursday. Physically, the Wildcats were on the court with Rose Hill. Mentally? Emotionally? Well...

Mulvane has been a one trick pony all season - except for in the playoffs. Michael Mason helped out with two rushing touchdowns, with Ty Reddington's three touchdowns, on their way to a 37-14 win over Rose Hill at Mulvane. The defending 4A state...

George McClure saw Roddy Peters in an open gym before his sophomore season and knew the wiry point guard was a Division I player. Damon Handon had similar thoughts after watching Peters dominate Prince George’s County High School competition...

It was hard to tell what, exactly, the Oklahoma City Thunder was preparing to do. In a routine as carefully choreographed as any Broadway production, Russell Westbrook and James Harden would flex their muscles before games last season. Brawny forward...

The Concordia High School finished its 2012 season with only two blemishes. The second one, which happened Saturday, was the hardest because it prevented the Panthers from claiming the 2012 Class 4A state championship. The second loss of the season came...

The biggest overachiever in Maryland basketball history -- maybe in the modern college game -- is trying to beat the odds again. At age 33, a decade after leading the Terps to the NCAA men's championship, three years removed from his last NBA game and...

ACC basketball’s talent drain continues at a record pace. With the expected news that Duke’s Austin Rivers and North Carolina’s Harrison Barnes and John Henson are entering the NBA draft, the conference next season will return no first-...

North Carolina's Tyler Zeller is the Atlantic Coast Conference's player of the year, and Florida State's Leonard Hamilton has won the coach of the year award for the second time in four years. The University of Virgin'as Mike Scott finished second in...