Kobe Bryant’s “Black Mamba” moniker has become one of the most popular nicknames in sports history, but it was originally meant to be Michael Jordan’s. An ESPN story confirmed a longstanding rumor ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CNN says the "Kobe: The Making of a Legend" documentary will include Bryant's upbringing, and how Bryant sought to harness and ...

Remember the 1998 movie “Sliding Doors“? It represents how minor, coincidental or inconsequential actions can lead to major, life-changing consequences. The “what if …” or parallel universe phenomenon ...

Senior night at Sage Hill High School is typically about family, flowers, hugs, and one last lap of gratitude. But on Tuesday night in Newport Beach, Amalia Holguin turned it into a coronation.

Before the world lost Kobe Bryant, he was building the future of basketball through his Mamba Academy. Amalia Holguin, a University of Texas commit coming off a 61-point senior night, was one of the ...

NIKE STAFFERS SAT around a conference room table inside the company's Oregon headquarters in late 2002 examining a space-age material. Black and tubelike, Tech Flex had commonly been found inside cars ...

Vanessa Bryant is honoring the memory of her late husband Kobe Bryant and their daughter Gianna with a powerful new book. To celebrate the outpouring of public art displayed around the world after the ...

The famous FC Barcelona kits are getting a sick “Mamba” makeover courtesy of Kobe Bryant’s brand. They also did a special collaboration with Vanessa and Kobe’s favorite MLB team, the Los Angeles ...

Greatness is rarely achieved in a void. Victor Wembanyama is an NBA big man who is changing the definition of the position, ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (KABC) -- Memorials honoring Kobe Bryant continue to grow across Southern California. At Bryant's Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, a collection of flowers, candles and all ...

Bryant would later say, in the 2015 documentary "Kobe Bryant's Muse," that he took on the black mamba persona during this time. "In 2003, I went from a person that was at the top of his game, that had ...