In the year 2010, we at SB Nation, our regional sites, and our blogs spent millions of words in an effort to tell you who was throwing or catching, or hitting a ball, why he or she was doing so, and ...

Hopefully there will be a museum of art dedicated solely to gifs someday. When that day comes, these great creations featuring basketball players going Super Saiyan by Reddit user Noise_filter deserve ...

There's a fascinating PBS short on the history of GIFs, 35 percent of which is dedicated to people intellectualizing their appeal. The theories range from the blunt (it's like a picture, but it moves) ...

The University of Alabama announced Thursday a three-year contract extension for Alabama men's basketball head coach Nate Oats. The contract would keep Oats with the Crimson Tide through March 14, ...

Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant has really scored. The former Los Angeles Lakers superstar earned a best animated short film Oscar statuette Sunday night to go with his five NBA championship rings ...

Retired NBA superstar Kobe Bryant will turn his love poem to hoops, "Dear Basketball," into a short animated film and a related series of projects to be distributed exclusively on Sports Illustrated ...

Kobe Bryant will finally get his jersey retired tonight. Correction: Kobe Bryant will get *two* jerseys retired tonight. That’s right, No. 8 and No. 24—numbers the Black Mamba wore during his ...

In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant waves good bye to the fans after an NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings in his last appearance at Sleep ...

Villanova coach Jay Wright is known for containing himself during games, most famously at last year's national championship, when he simply said ''Bang!'' to the game-winning shot. Yet Wright recently ...

At Sunday night's 90th annual Academy Awards, Kobe Bryant won another trophy, this one for the Oscar in the animated short category. Bryant, the retired Los Angeles Lakers star, brought home the ...