Coming-of-age ball for black males
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Just 30 minutes before the Phi Beta Sigma "beautillion" starts, a year of planning for the boys' glittering debutant ball threatens to unravel: What should be a trio of white-gowned female escorts is only a duo.
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With a 25 year-old point guard, two juniors who are six years removed from high school and five players who are married, Brigham Young seems to have the maturity to manage the pressure of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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Anthony Grant is perhaps the hottest young coach in college basketball. There is speculation that he will be a candidate for an upcoming job opening at South Carolina.
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Advertisers have uncovered a world of young men with plenty of time on their hands and money to spend - a highly coveted demographic - in an unlikely place.
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Last summer a group of students at Boston University got together to throw a ball around, and while they were at it, the idea of forming a cricket club at the school took shape.
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Rashidat Sadiq, who grew up playing basketball with older boys in her Lagos, Nigeria, neighborhood, looks like she belonged on the court at Gampel Pavilion.
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Every seven years since 1964, the filmmaker Michael Apted has released another installment of "The Up Series." These films document the lives of a diverse group of Britons from the ages of 7 to, most recently, 49. One of the patterns that emerges is a dramatic illustration of the Jesuit motto that inspired the series: âGive me a child until he is 7 and I will give you the man.â You can clearly see how these kidsâ very different personalities were fully formed at age seven.
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Move over, Curves. Now there's a hot health club designed just for the boys
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It does the job of marking the ascendancy of black Americans
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A native son aims to counter barbs and jokes about his state.
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Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Brown  said the jaw-dropping performance by LeBron James in Game Five  of the Eastern Conference finals signaled a coming-of-age for  the fourth-year forward.
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SALT LAKE CITY - A 9-year-old Utah boy won a national championship in a sport he doesn't even like, and only did it after missing a bus to the finals.  Dumsira Nwibiabu, a fourth-grader, won his age division Saturday at the NFL's Punt, Pass and Kick competition at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field.
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The People have chose to brand the ball rather to send it to space.
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After-school sports club are being launched to improve basic skills like throwing and catching.
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Thereâs one more activity emerging to give prepubescent go-getters a leg up these days: sports performance training.
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By Philip Walzer, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 8--Show up. Don't be a pig or a lush. Keep that right hand free for the perpetual handshake. Don't whine all night about how hard you work. But also don't rattle on about your son's brilliant maneuvers in his last 30 soccer games.
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Straight-shooting ball is one of a slew of nanotechnology products aimed at the sports market.