Texas Southern University has announced it would give a full scholarship to George Floyd’s daughter Gianna Floyd, the scholarship will be accessible to Gianna when she reaches college age. Texas Southern University made the announcement on Tuesday night, the day George Floyd was laid to rest in his hometown of Houston. TSU said on the school’s Facebook […]
Two-time Grand Slam tennis champion Naomi Osaka joined the chorus of athletes condemning the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, Derek Chauvin posting pictures of protests from the Minnesota city on her Instagram account. “Just because it isn’t happening to you, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening at all,” wrote Osaka, whose mother […]
Floyd just like many became jobless after the global pandemic, coronavirus struck. According to his longtime friend Christopher Harris, Floyd from his native Houston to Minneapolis several years ago in hopes of finding work and starting a new life. Floyd lost his job as a bouncer at a restaurant when Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz issued […]
Floyd Mayweather has dismissed claims that he could come out of retirement and insisted that he is ‘finished with boxing’. There have been suggestions that Mayweather, who beat Conor McGregor in his last fight in 2017, could return to the ring to take on Adrien Broner. However, Mayweather played down such claims and says that […]
Manny Pacquiao underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder on Wednesday, just days after his loss to Floyd Mayweather in the so-called “Fight of the Century”. Surgeon Neal ElAttrache, who performed the operation to repair a torn rotator cuff, said he could “not be more pleased with the results” and expects Pacquiao to recover […]