Joseph King
Joseph King is the sports and culture fellow for the Gulf States Newsroom, a regional collaboration between NPR and member stations in Alabama (WBHM), Mississippi (MPB) and Louisiana (WWNO and WRKF).
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Making it into the NCAA Tournament can translate to boosts in student enrollment, athletic involvement, merchandise sales and more for participating schools. -
Sports betting is still illegal in 12 states. In Alabama, an effort to legalize sports betting has stumbled amid opposition from religious conservatives and those concerned about problem gambling.
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The sport of Jiu Jitsu has its own national league and it's growing. The league is moving to Las Vegas from the small city of Decatur, Ala., where it all started.
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One of the fasted growing college sports is women's wrestling. There are about 150 women's wrestling teams at colleges and universities in North America, but not many in the deep South.
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This has been a record-breaking summer across the country and particularly in the Gulf South in August.
