Page 28 - Florida Sentinel 4-6-18

Sports
Villanova Fans Flood Streets Around Campus To Celebrate National Title
Woods' Masters Return Evokes 'Tiger Mania' Of Old
TIGER WOODS
He last won a major nearly 10 years ago, and has since been mauled by the maelstrom of life yet "Tiger Mania" is in full swing at Augusta.
He's 42 in a sport dominated by fit, young athletes -- a trend he pioneered 20 years ago.
And yet.
Woods will tee it up at Au- gusta this week as one of the fa- vorites to clinch a fifth green jacket and 15th major title.
Far from fairytale or wishful thinking, Woods' remarkable resurgence this season following back fusion surgery last April suggests he is trending towards the top of a leaderboard. In his last three events he's finished 12th, tied second and tied fifth.
LeBron James, The Most
Important Athlete In
Students at Villanova flooded the streets around cam- pus to celebrate the Wildcats’ second NCAA men’s basketball championship in three years, and police reported two arrests following the partying.
Villanova defeated Michigan 79-62 in Monday’s title game in San Antonio, setting off a rau- cous celebration on and around the Radnor Township campus.
As soon as the game ended, fans streamed into the streets, cheering and chanting.
In anticipation of celebra-
tions, light poles around the university had been greased, but that didn’t stop some fans from climbing.
News helicopter video showed a small bonfire being set in the street and some stu- dents trying to jump over the flames. Students could be seen climbing trees and grabbing branches to add fuel to the fire. Police moved in to get people away from the flames.
Reportedly, there were two arrests, but no other details were immediately available.
LeBron James is quite possibly the best basketball player who’s ever lived.
James has compiled a ré- sumé that rivals any player in the history of the NBA — up to and including Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the greatest player in the sport’s history.
James has won three cham- pionships and four most valu- able player awards, for starters, in his 15-year career. Over the weekend, he surpassed Jordan for the longest streak of games with at least 10 points scored; the last time James failed to score in double digits was in 2007.
But the 33-year-old James is much more than a living sports legend. He is an actor, a media mogul, and a cultural icon. He rose to the top of his sport at the same time that America was forced to confront its systematic violence against black people, especially young black men, and James has taken up that cause as one of the most famous young black men in
LEBRON JAMES
the nation. He is perhaps the most socially and politically in- fluential athlete since Muham- mad Ali.
James — LBJ, Bron, The King — has used the platform afforded him as the best player in the NBA at a time of unprece- dented popularity for the league to speak out about racial injus- tice and other political issues. SB Nation’s Tom Ziller wrote that we were living in “the decade of LeBron James.” ESPN ranked him the most famous American athlete (the second most famous in the world) and called him “the most powerful voice in his pro- fession.”
America, Explained
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2018 FLORIDA SENTINEL BULLETIN PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY PAGE 17-A