If the NBA really wants to get tough on racism and dish out lifetime bans and make a stand against bigotry, then the only recourse it has is to move the franchise out of Sterling control—and not just Donald Sterling’s but the entire Sterling clan’s. On Thursday his wife, Shelly Sterling, announced that she wants to take…

The family of a Texas teenager who was paralyzed after the driver of the truck he was riding in slammed into three good samaritans is set to receive more than $2 million, according to court documents seen by USA Today. Sergio Molina, 17, was injured after 16-year-old Ethan Couch crashed his pickup into a group…

In another show of force, Islamist terrorists who have claimed responsibility for the mass abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls are now believed to have opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of shoppers taking advantage of a cool night in Nigeria’s semidesert Northeast region. According to the Associated Press, some 300 people…

On Tuesday the mother of a Chicago teen who collapsed on the basketball court during a game over the weekend made the most difficult decision a parent hopes never to have to make: Tarcia Patton decided to take her son, Jermaine Cullum, off life support, WLS-Chicago reports.   “It was so hard, I couldn’t think…

Just last week, Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant’s basketball hometown paper called him “Mr. Unreliable,” and on Tuesday he was crowned the NBA’s Most Valuable Player. A normally subdued Durant couldn’t fight back the emotion as he recalled the tireless effort his mother put forth in raising the family. “We weren’t supposed to be here,” he…

V. Stiviano, the woman thrust into the national spotlight as the person on the other end of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist rant, is reportedly in the final stages of adopting two African-American teenage boys, according to RadarOnline.com. “V fostered two young African-American boys for several years,” a source told RadarOnline. “She had…

The case of the Heisman Trophy winner and the stolen crab legs just got more interesting, thanks to video footage that, according to the Associated Press, appears to show Florida State University football and baseball star Jameis Winston pausing briefly to avoid a police deputy before leaving a supermarket without paying for crab legs and…

On the heels of heavily armed suspected Boko Haram gunmen storming into a northeastern Nigeria village Tuesday night and kidnapping eight more girls, Nigeria’s government is defending what many have criticized as an ineffective response. “The president and the government [are] not taking this as easy as people all over the world think,” Doyin Okupe,…

A clerical error kept Cornealious “Mike” Anderson, 37, out of prison for 13 years. As a free man, Anderson started his own construction-related businesses, married and had children. He also coached youth football and volunteered at his church. Basically, Anderson was an upstanding, taxpaying citizen. But after the mistake was caught, the Missouri man was…

Updated Tuesday, May 6, 2:18 p.m. EDT: Eric LeGrand will, in fact, speak at Rutgers University’s commencement later this month, according to university President Robert Barchi, who issued a statement viewed by ESPN.com. “It was never our intention that Eric would be the only speaker,” Barchi’s statement says. “We have resolved that miscommunication and are delighted to…