During the 1999-2000 basketball season, as the University of Connecticut women were chasing another national championship before huge crowds and adoring television audiences, the women of Gallaudet ...

Ask 8-year-old Zeke Ortiz what he wants to be when he grows up, and he’ll answer without hesitation — a pro basketball player. Zeke has been playing since he was a 2-year-old, but he decided earlier ...

Fort Lewis College, school for deaf learn how to communicate Deven Thompson halted his dribble and quickly pushed up a 15-foot shot over camp coach Matthias Weissl during a one-on-one drill. As it ...

WASHINGTON — With his team’s lead slipping, Bruce Brewer, Jr. did not yell at his four teammates on the floor as his Gallaudet squad hosted a recent Division III basketball game. Instead, the product ...

The sport of basketball is filled with signature sounds. The constant squeak of sneakers. The clang of the rim after an errant shot. Even every dribble has that familiar rubbery thud that echos around ...

It sounds like an act right out of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. But “Eric Melvin and Angelyne the Amazing Deaf Cattle Dog” is no act. And it’s nothing to laugh at, either, although it ...

Students at Riverview Christian School near Brush “oohed” and “awed” as the dog performed tricks. The Australian cattle dog sought out treats, jumped for tennis balls and even jumped through a series ...

Maryland School for Deaf girls basketball coach Amy Mowl stood Friday in MSD's gym, watching young athletes participate in the first United States of America Deaf Basketball (USADB) National Girls ...

At 51, the former postal worker is among the 95 percent of the Gallaudet University undergraduate population that is either deaf or profoundly hard of hearing. Arabie is also blind, making sign ...

There's nothing out of the ordinary when No. 52 takes the floor for the Carson High junior varsity girls basketball team. And that's the way it should be. Chelsa Owen-Self is profoundly deaf, "which ...

EVANS, Colo.—When Angelyne started visiting schools a little more than four years ago, her goal was to teach children about patience, persistence, teamwork, focus, creative thinking and all those ...

A DEAF Celtic supporter has told how he dreams of being able to listen to his fellow fans sing for the first time - after undergoing radical surgery. Steven McCartney, 37, of Musselburgh, East Lothian ...