Carlisle Indian School squad 1918, courtesy www.blackfivesblog.com
In 1912, the Carlisle School in Pennsylvania had worldwide rep as student Jim Thorpe grabbed a couple of Olympic Gold Medals and their football squad won a national chip. They also were ballin’ on campus, as well as others such as Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Virginia. Claude […]

Warrior Elite Squad featuring #53 Joey “King Handles” Haywood.
Without the ghetto there would be no basketball as we know it. Little do most people know there are invisible ‘hoods buried all over rural America, huge windswept corrals where entire populations were fenced in and forgotten: Indian reservations, aka The Rez. And they’re balling out–hard. […]