Mormon HS basketball star Jabari Parker makes cover of Sports Illustrated

MR says: Wow. This kid is amazing. Sports Illustrated rarely produces a cover story on a high school athlete, but when it comes to 17-year-old prep basketball sensation Jabari Parker, the venerable national publication couldn't resist. Parker, a high school junior, graces the cover of this week's issue....

Mormon mega-recruit Jabari Parker chronicled in Time Magazine video

MR says: This Mormon basketball star has been getting scholarship offers since the seventh grade. Wow.

For Jimmer, first season in NBA is one filled with ups and downs

It was billed as a short, compact 66-game schedule. An NBA season played on fast-forward. No rookie summer ball. Forget about preseason camp. And practice? Man, there would be games, but practice? With up to five games a week, practices weren’t the norm. Still, with all Jimmer Fredette...

LDS basketball star Jabari Parker moves into No. 1 prospect status

It's official. Jabari Parker now has multiple talent scouting services ranking the LDS basketball star from Chicago as the No. 1 high school player in America. It's also no secret that he is very aware of the swath he's cutting and it's a priority, he believes, that he needs to set a proper...

HS basketball star relies on Mormon faith, family to keep grounded

MR says: What a great example he is for the Church. This is what it’s like to be Jabari Parker, the nation’s top high school basketball player. One day he’s presenting a project in his Spanish class, turns around and sees Alonzo Mourning. Parker takes a seat and grins. The former Miami Heat star is...

Experience, perspective are two teachers of basketball player Chris Burgess

Seated on a basement couch, clad in crimson University of Utah gear and surrounded by his collection of basketball memorabilia, 32-year-old Chris Burgess spoke of his two great teachers — experience and perspective. “I’ve learned a lot,” Burgess said of the past 16 years. “I’m sure I...

Is Jimmermania over? Jimmer Fredette no King in NBA yet

Far away from the NBA's brightest lights, Jimmer Fredette can walk into a restaurant or grocery store in California's Central Valley and barely turn a head. There are still some signs and shouts of "We Want Jimmer!" at Sacramento Kings games, and photo and autograph seekers sprout up...

Missionary-to-be thrust into NCAA tourney spotlight

Against all odds, freshman Stilman White is the starting point guard for defending national champion North Carolina as the Tar Heels make final preparations to compete in the Sweet Sixteen on Friday. As Trent Toone detailed for the Deseret News back in January, White plans on serving a two-year...

Cougars rally for historic victory

Just days after the BYU women's team made history by winning their first West Coast Conference tournament championship, their counterparts on the men's team were making history of their own. On March 13, the "comeback" Cougars overcame a 25 point deficit in their game against the Iona Gaels to...

BYU women overcome challenges

It's been a memorable year for Brigham Young University's women's basketball. Memorable in many ways. For one, the Cougars were playing their first season in the West Coast Conference, leaving behind their familiar foes from the Mountain West...

Mormons compete in NCAA tournament

Harvard reserve guard Corbin Miller saw little action against Vanderbilt on Thursday, but he still made the box score. The 6-foot-2 freshman from Sandy, Utah, recorded one rebound and one turnover in the 12th-seeded Crimson's 79-70 loss to the Commodores in the first round of the NCAA men's...

Jimmer writes about what he has learned from his mother

MR says: Sweet story. If there is such a thing as a conventional LDS family, mine was certainly not it. My father joined the church when he was 18, along with his brother Dennis and sister Bonnie. He has been very active and has served in many church callings throughout his life, including everything...

Twenty years' worth of church ball for two LDS men

MR says: What a feel-good story. Many nights a month, Curtis Christiansen and Philip Michelsen sit at a table on the stage of the Fruit Heights Stake Center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where they have kept score and managed the clock at church basketball games for 20 years. The...

Harvard's LDS hoopster

These are strange days at Harvard University. For centuries, the Ivy League school has earned renown for producing everything from U.S. presidents (from John Adams — class of 1755 — through Barack Obama) to computer industry icons (think Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg). But the...

BYU Student Flash Mob at Basketball Game