According to a new book, "Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports," the Globetrotters ventured beyond the normal sports boundaries, touching race relations and even ...

One last time, for old times’ sake. ESPN mainstay Around the Horn is wrapping up its two-decade run on May 23. To celebrate its iconic legacy, the show is bringing back some of its favorite ...

That same year, Abe Saperstein bought the team and went on to change the name to the name to the Harlem Globetrotters. One might assume this meant the team moved to New York City, but such was not ...

NBA Pioneers: League celebrates 75th anniversary of first Black players. Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd and Nat Clifton transformed the NBA in 1950 as the league's first Black players.

Rod Ohira wrote in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 1999: “The tour was put together by Hawaii promoter Mackay Yanagisawa and Abe Saperstein, manager and owner of the Globetrotters.

Meanwhile, Abe Saperstein founded the Harlem Globetrotters. Florida head coach Todd Golden has led the Gators to their first Final Four since 2014. (AP Photo/Alan Youngblood) ...

Meanwhile, Abe Saperstein founded the Harlem Globetrotters. Florida legend Neal Walk, the No. 2 pick in the 1969 NBA draft, is among other Jewish success stories on the court.

March 15, 1966: University of Illinois graduate and Harlem Globetrotters’ founder Abe Saperstein died at age 63. March 15, 1985: ...

Now Abe Saperstein is finally getting the praise he deserves, and the Harlem Globetrotters' complex origin story is explored, in Mark and Matthew Jacob's Globetrotter.

Ms. James had performed with an opera company in France and in a popular musical revue in Atlantic City, N.J., when her manager, Abe Saperstein — the basketball impresario behind the Harlem ...

Abe Saperstein, founder and owner of the Globetrotters, was known as a masterful promoter with a business-savvy mind built for sports entertainment. He saw the immediate potential that Chamberlain ...

Globetrotter manager Abe Saperstein was furious that his team was upstaged by a bunch of locals. But it was a stunt that the Trotters would later add to their repertoire. ...