"Dawn's a showstopper."--former NBA player Magic Johnson. Dawn Staley knows that it is good to give. It was a lesson she learned playing basketball with the boys in her Philadelphia neighborhood growing up and one she put to use in winning back-to-back...

McCoy, Lezlie B. Philadelphia Tribune, The 11-16-2004 Basketball giant Dawn Staley was chosen to carry the flag for the United States during the opening Olympic ceremonies this past summer. Unfortunately, because of a late-breaking local story that occurred during the same time, Staley's...

Murray, Chris Philadelphia Tribune, The 03-06-2005 If you ask sports fans who the major sports icons are in the city of Philadelphia these days, names like Donovan McNabb, Allen Iverson, John Chaney, or even middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins would tower above this broad-shouldered...

Temple found a way to hang around the NCAA tournament a little longer. Lady Comfort scored the go-ahead basket in the final two minutes and Fatima Maddox hit four clinching free throws to help the Owls rally past Nebraska 64-61 on Sunday night, earning a...

The Black List: Volume One, a collaboration between former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, has been sold to HBO Documentary Films, and will have its world premiere at Sundance on January 22. The documentary is "composed of dramatic portraits...