THE MOUNTAIN HAWKS TAKE THE TITLE 🏆 Lehigh returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time since CJ McCollum went off to upset Duke in 2012 🔥

It’s time. 🤟🤟🏾🤟🏻🤟🏽

Tony "Stat Boy" Reali used to keep the facts in order for Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon on PTI ✍️

Thank you coach Chernow! Wishing you the best of luck in your next chapter at Suffolk! 📖- bit.ly/4zwrYHK

A mini reunion of THE WIRE last night as we gathered at the premiere of WAR, the new HBO series starring Dominic West and Sienna Miller @hbomax 25 years and counting….

Kim Kardashian's docuseries about youth baseball moms, "Team Moms: Baseball," has released its first trailer. It will premiere Sept. 24 on Paramount+.

In 2003, the most hated team in the NBA did the kindest thing anyone has ever done on a basketball court. April 25, 2003. Rose Garden, Portland. Game 3 of the first round against Dallas. The Blazers are down 2-0 and facing elimination from the moment they wake up. That Blazers team had a nickname. The Jail Blazers. They were, at the time, maybe the least likable team in professional sports. Arrests. Suspensions. A roster full of guys the national media treated as villains. Portland fans were exhausted by them. Before the game, a 13 year old girl named Natalie Gilbert walks to center court to sing the national anthem in front of 19,980 people. What nobody in the building knew is that she was sick. She had the flu. She later said she just didn't feel like herself at all that day. She gets a few lines in. And then her brain goes blank. She sings "star's last gleaming" instead of "twilight's last gleaming," realizes it instantly, and stops. She looks around. She puts her hand to her face. Thirteen years old. Twenty thousand people. National television. Frozen. There is no worse feeling available to a human being. And then a man walks out of the Portland huddle. Maurice Cheeks, the head coach, minutes away from a playoff elimination game, leaves his team, walks across the floor, puts his arm around her shoulder and says, "C'mon." Then he starts singing with her. Now understand something. Maurice Cheeks cannot sing. At all. He is not remotely trying to rescue the performance. He's just refusing to let a kid stand there alone. He keeps his arm around her the whole way. He feeds her the next words. And within a few seconds, all 19,980 people in that building stand up and sing it with them. A moment that was going to define a little girl's life in the worst possible way became the exact opposite. Dan Patrick wrote at the time that Cheeks' simple actions had become the defining moment of the entire playoffs. They went on Jay Leno together. CNN. Good Morning America. It became one of the first truly viral NBA moments, years before that word meant anything. Portland lost the game. They lost the series. Cheeks finished his Blazers tenure with a fairly ordinary record and was eventually let go. Now here's the ending. In March 2025, almost 22 years later, Maurice Cheeks came back to Portland as an assistant coach with the New York Knicks. The Blazers found Natalie Gilbert. She's 35 now. Married. Goes by Natalie Zito. She's also, as it turns out, a Blazers season ticket holder. They brought her back to sing the anthem again. She nailed it. The whole building erupted. And the camera cut to Cheeks on the sideline, beaming like a proud father. The two of them met before the game and hugged. What she said afterward is why this story matters. She explained that she'd been made fun of a lot as a kid, and that in the moment she felt most helpless and hopeless, a stranger walked right over with no hesitation. "This moment changed my life." And then she said something even better. That she wouldn't go back and change any of it. That seeing him again and finding out he's still the same standup guy proved it was all real. Twenty two years. One arm around a shoulder. Follow @thesportsontap, we post a story like this every day.

Coaching at its finest: #Seahawks HC Mike Macdonald explains to his team how Michael Jordan made the ultimate sacrifice to score less — and win more… “The secret sauce in the NFL is connection.” Outstanding stuff. 👌👌 (📹 'Hard Knocks' on @hbomax)

BREAKING: New study finds that a minimum-wage worker in 1971 had a lifestyle affordability similar to someone making $100K today.

New year, new title 😼 Congratulations to Coach Payne on being promoted to Associate Head Coach! 👏 #Attitude | #GoCatsGo

Lehigh 6’4 Guard Josh Ingram has the potential to be one of the best mid major draft prospects in college basketball next season. Ingram had a strong season last year for Lehigh where he averaged 11/5/3 and shot 49% from the field and 38% from three on 4 attempts a game. Ingram has a strong mix of defense, shooting, passing, finishing, rebounding, motor, athleticism, creation, and off ball instincts that makes him an extremely valuable and versatile player who has among the best glue guys and two way players in the country last year. Ingram is a high level defender who was one of the best guard defenders in the country last year. Ingram plays with a high motor and uses his size and athleticism to defend in one on one situations at an elite level where players shot just 24% on isolation’s against him, he’s also great at attacking passing lanes and is a strong shot blocker for his height. On the offensive end Ingram is an extremely skilled off ball player who’s great at getting open as a spot up shooter and is also a high level driver who shot 70% at the rim. Ingram is also an elite cutter and strong connective passer. Ingram is also an efficient off the dribble scorer who’s great at creating space for himself. Ingram was also one of 5 players in college basketball last season who had an AST% of 15, shoot 35% from three on 40 makes, and shoot 70% at the rim on 40 makes, joining Bennett Stirtz, Bruce Thornton, Christian Anderson, and Yaxel Lendeborg. Ingram returned to Lehigh where he’s set to get a bigger role and he has the potential to be one of the best mid major players in the country and be a breakout draft prospect.