Topic: Basketball
Villanova For the Win!
With March Madness back on this year, we face a perennial dilemma: Can we be fans of winning games while also winning at education?
“You Can’t Be Afraid of the Mess”
After last year’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival, The Citizen awarded $50,000 to pilot a basketball-based gun violence reduction program in Philly. Its long journey has just begun.
By Jessica Blatt Press
Why The Sixers Need Jay Wright
Our dysfunctional pro team’s problems have nothing to do with basketball
By Larry Platt
I Am Because We Are
The Citizen’s 2020 Jeremy Nowak Urban Innovation Award will go to a program fighting gun violence and incarceration through basketball. Here, one of the organizers explains what it means to him—and for young black men in Philly
By Aaron Crump
True Champs
In a world without sports, players step up
By Dave Kyu
Lara Price and Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
The Citizen’s executive editor and Sixers chief operating officer talked about the key to helping women get ahead: Being a champion
By Jessica Blatt Press
What Would Jay Do?
Villanova basketball coach Jay Wright’s Zen coaching may be the only antidote to the Sixers’ dysfunction
By Larry Platt
I’m heartbroken about Kobe—and I didn’t even like him
A Philly native in L.A. reflects on the personal growth and complexity of the late NBA star
By Sam Rosenthal
Can Basketball Keep People Out of Prison?
Police say returning citizen Taylor Paul’s inner-city league for young adults and cops in Richmond, Virginia, has markedly reduced the gun violence rate.
By Larry Platt
Sam Wachs
The Sixers fan was kicked out of a game last week for protesting China’s crackdown on Hong Kong. Does his team have something against freedom?
By Larry Platt