Basketball

LaVar Ball, father of one of the college basketball players arrested in China for shoplifting, tweeted a GIF Thursday of a cartoon version of himself dunking on President Trump. (screenshot)

LaVar Ball posts GIF of himself dunking on Trump

Mandy Mayfield · December 7, 2017 11:46 pm

"The president is a good counterpuncher. He doesn't seem to discriminate from my perspective. He attacks anyone he perceives or believes is attacking him or the country, right or wrong," Scott said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Tim Scott: Trump doesn’t single out black athletes for criticism

Kyle Feldscher · November 26, 2017 3:20 pm

Politics comes at you fast, and it seems to have been speeding up in these past few years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

Beltway Confidential

Obama and Trump take credit in very different ways

Philip Wegmann · November 22, 2017 5:01 pm

LaVar Ball questioned the extent of President Trump's involvement in securing his son's release from the custody of Chinese authorities. Trump hit back saying, "It wasn't the White House, it wasn't the State Department, it wasn't father LaVar's so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME." (AP Photos)

Trump hits back at ‘ungrateful fool’ LaVar Ball

Sarah Bedford · November 22, 2017 11:25 am

No Things Considered

LaVar Ball confuses Chris Cuomo, a bus ruins the Weather Channel’s shot, and more on No Things Considered

Tim Young · November 22, 2017 12:36 am

Ultimately, when someone frees your flesh and blood, unconditional gratitude is owed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Beltway Confidential

LaVar Ball is free to be ungrateful to Trump this Thanksgiving — in China, he might not be

Sean Roman Strockyj · November 21, 2017 10:15 pm

LaVar Ball, the father of one of the three UCLA basketball players caught shoplifting in China, told CNN's Chris Cuomo Monday night that he would have thanked President Trump personally if he had also flown his son home, instead of just freeing them from a Chinese jail. (screenshot)

LaVar Ball: I would have thanked Trump if he brought my son home from China on Air Force One

Naomi Lim · November 21, 2017 4:05 am

"This tweet perfectly summarizes @potus' unfitness for the job. He does not see himself as representing the citizens of the United States (that's the job desc) but himself as a kind of petulant emperor who needs to be fawned over to do his job. Unpresidential in the extreme," former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel tweeted Sunday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Former Obama official: Trump sees himself as a ‘petulant emperor’

Caitlin Yilek · November 20, 2017 3:12 pm

FILE - In this June 8, 2017 file photo, Former FBI Director James Comey reacts during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Comey paid a weekend visit to Iowa, site of the first presidential caucuses. Cue the speculation. One of President Donald Trump's best-known adversaries dined at a must-stop steakhouse for politicos and posed for a photo along a rural road with a neatly groomed field as a backdrop, as countless White House aspirants have before him. However, it turns out, Comey was visiting his in-laws. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

James Comey tweets about leadership after Trump slams UCLA basketball player’s father on Twitter

Naomi Lim · November 20, 2017 12:24 am

FILE - In this July 7, 2017, file photo, LaVar Ball, father of Los Angeles Lakers' Lonzo Ball and UCLA player LiAngelo Ball, watches the Lakers play the Los Angeles Clippers during an NBA summer league basketball game, in Las Vegas. President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday, Nov. 19, that he should have left three UCLA basketball players, including LiAngelo Ball, accused of shoplifting in China in jail after LaVar Ball minimized Trump's involvement in winning the players' release during an interview Saturday, Nov. 18, with ESPN. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Trump to ‘ungrateful’ father of UCLA basketball player: ‘China told them why they were released’

Naomi Lim · November 20, 2017 12:22 am

"Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!" Trump tweeted. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump on UCLA basketball players: ‘I should have left them in jail’ due to LaVar Ball criticism

Kelly Cohen · November 19, 2017 5:58 pm

UCLA basketball players Cody Riley, Jalen Hill, and LiAngelo Ball left the Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday after the three were detained in China on suspicion of shoplifting. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Red Alert Politics

Trump’s millennial win: Saving college students from Chinese prison

Neil Dwyer · November 18, 2017 5:01 am