Madelyn Burke: The Mamba Sports Academy is "Mamba" no more. The organization announced Tuesday it was retiring Mamba from the name and will be known as Sports Academy going forward. I'm joined now by ...

Stephen Curry has his mouthguard. Amalia Holguin has her gum. By this point in her freshman season at Newport Beach Sage Hill, defenders have started pressing so close in Holguin’s airspace, they ...

The Mamba Sports Academy is now known by a different name: Sports Academy. Sports Academy’s CEO Chad Faulkner announced on Tuesday that out of respect for Kobe Bryant, “Mamba” has been dropped from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mamba Sports Academy is changing its name out of respect for the late KobeBryant. The Los Angeles Lakers great, nicknamed "The ...

The Mamba Sports Academy will no longer use Kobe Bryant’s iconic nickname following a mutual agreement with the Laker legend’s estate. An agreement now takes the “Mamba” out of the Sports Academy. The ...

Kobe Bryant's legacy still lives on. On Tuesday, the Mamba Sports Academy announced it would retire "Mamba" from its name in order to honor the late basketball legend. The new title will change back ...

“Our beliefs and thoughts are: Kobe is one of one. ‘Mamba’ is one of one,” Mamba Sports Academy co-founder and CEO Chad Faulkner told ESPN’s Marc J. Spears. “And with that as we carry on as The Sports ...

Big changes are coming to the NBA G League, and Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy may be involved. According to Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, the G League’s new “Select Team,” featuring prep stars ...

"Today, with respect for an unparalleled legacy, the Academy will retire the 'Mamba' in the Mamba Sports Academy name — to raise it to the rafters, where it belongs," the academy said on Tuesday Jason ...

The Mamba Sports Academy is changing its name to the The Sports Academy out of respect to Kobe Bryant, it said in a statement Tuesday. Bryant died in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26 along with his ...