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*It was twenty years ago that Michigan played North Carolina for college basketball’s (mens) national title. They lost. Monday night, twenty years later, they played again and … lost … to Louisville 82-76. As the national championship unspooled Monday night, Louisville and Michigan put on a show, a production worthy of a stage, with acrobatics [...]
*Ok, so what’s up with two members of the famous Fab Five, Jalen Rose and Chris Webber? Monday morning on the radio, Rose put Webber on blast. He said that all of the members of Michigan’s famed Fab Five except Webber have agreed to reunite at the Georgia Dome tonight to cheer on the Wolverines [...]
*Oh dang, Jalen Rose admitted to purposely injuring L.A.’s baddest mamajama on the court, Kobe Bryant (don’t hate). During an interview with Grandland.com, the former NBA star said he did it during the Finals in 2000. He should go to NBA jail or something. Like EURweb on Facebook Rose confessed that he was getting way [...]
*A new reality series from Powerhouse Productions and TV One follows a renowned educator as he tries to keep African American boys from heading down a path of destruction. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] “Save My Son,” premiering later this month, brings cameras into the lives of families struggling to keep their sons from succumbing [...]
*Former NBA star and current ESPN analyst is expanding his horizon with his newly established education program. The Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, founded in his hometown of Detroit, is focused on helping students achieve and find success despite the desperate circumstances in the city. “When the auto industry was around, adults weren’t necessarily going to [...]
*ESPN analyst and former NBA star Jalen Rose has been released from a suburban Detroit jail after serving time for drunken driving. The Oakland County sheriff’s department tells The AP that Rose was released early Thursday from the jail in Pontiac after 16 days behind bars. He reported to jail Aug. 2 to begin a [...]
*They say it helps to have friends in high places. Well, ex-NBA player Jalen Rose did, but it didn’t mean squat to the judge in his drunk driving case in Oakland County (Detroit), Michigan. He still has to do jail time … even if it’s only 20 days. Rose’s friend, Detroit mayor, Dave Bing wrote [...]
*Whoa! We’re sure he wasn’t he expecting this. We weren’t. According to Detroit’s WXYZ-TV, Jalen Rose, the ESPN basketball analyst/commentator as well as former NBA player and University of Michigan star, has been sentenced to 20 days in jail for drunk driving in Oakland County. No, 20 days isn’t “much,” but who thought he would [...]
*Former Michigan and NBA player Jalen Rose pleaded guilty Wednesday to drunken driving, admitting to a judge that he got behind the wheel after drinking six martinis and wound up crashing his SUV, reports the AP. Rose, who entered his plea in District Court in Oakland County’s Bloomfield Hills, faces up to 93 days in [...]
*Ever since Jalen Rose’s interview surfaced in the ESPN documentary on the “Fab Five,” the media ran with his remarks and tried to start something with former Duke players and their camp. One of those players was Grant Hill and he weighed in on Rose’s remarks of being an “Uncle Tom.” But that controversy has [...]
*After the release of the controversial ESPN documentary, “Fab Five,” a lot of drama and tension was generated between Jalen Rose and Grant Hill. In the movie, Rose, a former Michigan basketball player, said his teammates had resentment toward Hill and his school, saying that Duke only recruited Black guys who were “Uncle Toms.” A [...]
*All, of a sudden, Jalen Rose can’t seem to stay away from controversy. We all know about his “Uncle Tom” allegations against Duke University and Grant Hill, the subsequent fallout from that and the revelation of his DUI last week. Well, speaking of DUI, that’s what got him back in doo-doo again. This time with [...]
*On a Chicago sports radio show, Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski (pronounced “Sha-shef-ski”) has come out swinging at the critical remarks made by Jalen Rose about the school in an ESPN documentary. Krzyzewski says the comments were “very insulting to everyone here at Duke.” In his ESPN Films documentary, “The Fab Five,” Rose said African [...]
*Jalen Rose, who was in the news recently for his uncomplimentary statements about Duke University and Grant Hill, is back on the front burner, so to speak. The former NBA star and current analyst for ESPN, was arrested back on March 11 in Michigan. He was charged with driving under the influence (along an icy [...]
*Jalen Rose grew up poor in Detroit, the son of single mom and an NBA player he never met. He helped transform basketball culture as a member of Michigan’s iconic Fab Five team, then earned more than $100 million as a pro baller. Grant Hill came up wealthy in the D.C. suburbs, the child of [...]
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