His family posted the news on social media, saying Russell died with his wife, Jeannine, by his side.
Basketball
She was the second overall pick by the Tulsa Shock in 2011 but has played in only five WNBA seasons.
She has been detained in Russia since February, and the U.S. government is under pressure at home to do more to secure her freedom.
UCLA and Southern California are planning to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten Conference in a seismic change that could lead to another major realignment of college sports.
Roy Williams and Jim Calhoun will join John Beilein and Lon Kruger in a star-studded cast of coaches who will be inducted into the National College Basketball Hall of Fame in November.
The start date of the criminal trial of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner is set for July 1.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said any talk that the league is targeting Seattle and Las Vegas for expansion in 2024 “is not true.”
Bob Lanier, the left-handed big man who muscled up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as one of the NBA’s top players of the 1970s, died Tuesday.
Jay Wright shocked college basketball Wednesday night with his immediate resignation at Villanova, the Big East program he led to two national championships and four Final Fours in a Hall of Fame career.
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