The Nike Tournament of Champions is a highly competitive AAU tournament that takes place every year in a variety of different locations across the country. This year session one of western regional took place in Phoenix, Arizona. The tournament attracts a myriad of college coaches from all divisions, and top-level teams with the highest-ranked recruits in the nation. This year, one of those teams was the Chinese 17u National Team. On the first day of competition, my AAU team

I was walking around the Golden One Center at the Sacramento regional for the women’s NCAA tournament last weekend and out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the viral social media sensation Elvera ‘Peps’ Neuman, also known as the Minnesota Blanket Lady. I approached her and asked for a picture, not because she is the woman who went viral for hyping up the crowd at the University of Minnesota women’s basketball games with her blanket, but because she is one of the pioneers of

This article was written as part of my history final last schools year. For the final, we were allowed to research any event from 1917-2025, so I decided to write about NIL and college athletics. I also received a 98% on the project.