Mary Holt/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesBy CARMEN COX, ABC News
(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — University of Florida basketball player Keyontae Johnson is in critical but stable condition after collapsing on the court in the middle of a game against Florida State Saturday.
The Gators had just come out of a timeout when Johnson, a junior from Norfolk, Virginia, collapsed on the court. Johnson was transported to Tallahassee Memorial hospital after receiving emergency medical care in the locker room.
During Saturday’s 83-71 loss to Florida State, Johnson had scored five points in four minutes. This season, Johnson has averaged 19.7 points per game, according to ESPN.
Since Saturday’s incident, Johnson’s parents, Gators coach Mike White and associate AD for sports health Dave Werner have stayed with him at the hospital.
It’s not clear what caused Saturday’s emergency, though Johnson did test positive for COVID-19 during the summer, ESPN reports. Watch the full report from ABC News with video from Saturday’s game:
Kevork S. Djansezian/Getty ImagesBy ANGELINE JANE BERNABE and MYA GREEN, ABC News
(NEW YORK) — For the first time, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is opening up about his private battle with prostate cancer since being diagnosed 11 years ago.
In an essay Abdul-Jabbar wrote for WebMD, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer revealed how he’s had prostate cancer, leukemia and heart bypass surgery to shed light on the health challenges facing Black people.
Abdul-Jabbar wrote that while he’s received some of the best medical attention over the years as an NBA star, he’s aware of how others in the Black community do not.
“While I’m grateful for my advantages, I’m acutely aware that many others in the Black community do not have the same options and that is my responsibility to join with those fighting to change that,” he wrote. “Because Black lives are at risk. Serious risk.”
“We’re at a crossroads here,” Abdul-Jabbar told ABC News’ Good Morning America in an interview about his op-ed. “People are either going to take health care seriously and promote it and support it, or people will be struggling, and we want to end the struggling. We want people to be well.”
In his essay, Abdul-Jabbar pointed out that some of the health issues Black people are prone to as a group include diabetes, heart problems, obesity and cancer.
African Americans have the highest mortality rate of any racial group for all cancers combined, and have higher rates of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease than other groups, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. The trend continues with COVID-19, which Abdul-Jabbar highlighted in his essay.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted just how malignant the system is,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote. “The virus has hit the African American community at a much higher and more devastating rate than it has the white community. At the same time, they receive a lower standard of care.”
In addition, Abdul-Jabbar pointed out how more Black people are dying from COVID-19 at higher rates because they are essential workers.
According to several states’ analysis of data, the coronavirus pandemic has hit Black and Latino communities across the U.S. hard, killing people of color at a disproportionate rate compared to white Americans.
And based on an analysis released by the Economic Policy Institute, people of color (Black, Latino, Asian American and other non-whites) account for 43% of all essential workers in the nation amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Because of this, “the risk of infection may be greater for workers in essential industries who continue to work outside the home despite outbreaks in their communities, including some people who may need to continue working in these jobs because of their economic circumstances,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a post, “COVID-19 in Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups.”
“The fact that people of color have more face-to-face jobs with people, they are more likely to be involved in healthcare,” said Abdul-Jabbar. “And they have to use public transportation, just those factors by themselves will make the people of color more susceptible, more vulnerable to a pandemic.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PRESEASON Atlanta 116, Orlando 107 Brooklyn 119, Washington 114 Detroit 99, New York 91 Houston 0, Chicago 0 LA Lakers 131, LA Clippers , 106 Sacramento 121, Portland 106
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Arizona 26, NY Giants 7 Chicago 36, Houston 7 Dallas 30, Cincinnati 7 Denver 32, Carolina 27 Kansas City 33, Miami 27 Tampa Bay 26, Minnesota 14 Tennessee 31, Jacksonville 10 Indianapolis 44, Las Vegas 27 Seattle 40, NY Jets 3 Green Bay 31, Detroit 24 LA Chargers, 20 Atlanta 17 Philadelphia 24, New Orleans 21 Washington 23, San Francisco 15 Buffalo 26, Pittsburgh 15
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Iowa 106 N. Illinois 53 Michigan St. 109, Oakland 91 West Virginia 87, Richmond 71 Ohio St. 67, Cleveland St. 61 Arizona St. 71, Grand Canyon 70 Texas at Baylor (Postponed) Tarleton State at Kansas (Canceled) William & Mary at (Postponed)
(NEW YORK) — College athlete Sarah Fuller has made history again — this time as the first woman to score in a Power 5 football game.
The Vanderbilt kicker scored an extra point in the first half after a Commodores touchdown against Tennessee on Saturday, tying the game 7-7.
The home game marked the soccer champion’s second time playing for Vanderbilt’s football team this season.
On Nov. 28, Fuller became the first woman to play in a Power 5 football game when she kicked off for Vanderbilt to start the second half of a game against Missouri.
“I just want to tell all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to, you really can,” Fuller told reporters after the game in Missouri. “And if you have that mentality all the way through, you can do big things.”
Following that game, Vanderbilt interim coach Todd Fitch told reporters that Fuller, who was recruited as a kicker after several of the football team’s specialists had to quarantine due to COVID-19 testing, would continue practicing with the team.
The senior was a goalkeeper on Vanderbilt’s Southeastern Conference championship-winning soccer team this season.
She is the third woman to play in a Football Bowl Subdivision game.
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