Jelani Rooks, Author at Rolling Out

The 2013 MLB season is finally underway as teams and players alike are getting ready for their 162-game journey. There was plenty of drama throughout the 2012 season, yet this season has the potential to eclipse last season in terms of excitement. Check out the five biggest storylines of the 2013 MLB season.

Four-time WNBA champion and three-time WNBA Finals MVP Sheryl Swoopes, who during her playing days was commonly referred to as the “Female Michael Jordan,” sat down with rolling out to discuss her life after basketball along with her private life away from the court. In 2011, Swoopes was voted by the fans as one of…

WBC international heavyweight champion Johnathon Banks sat down with rolling out to discuss topics that ranged from his motivation for trying to make heavyweight boxing popular again to the passing of his late legendary boxing trainer, Emanuel Steward. While growing up on the outskirts of Detroit, Banks harnessed his passion for boxing early enough to become one…

NBA TV analyst and former NBA player Dennis Scott sat down with rolling out to discuss the first half of the 2012-13 NBA season and some of the surprise teams in the Eastern Conference. The usual suspects like the Miami Heat and New York Knicks are there, but we wanted to know which team Scott believes has…

With week 9 officially on the books, the contenders and pretenders have started to clearly separate themselves around the NFL. There were some riveting and historic performances on Sunday, Nov.4, and rolling out has put together a list of Week 9’s best all-around performances. Sorry in advance if you’re a Raiders fan!

With 10 games to go in the NFL’s 2012 regular season, each team’s superstars are going to have to step up and carry their franchise towards playoff glory. RG3, Aaron Rodgers, and other elite players showed up last weekend and willed their team to crucial victories.

A quarter of the 2012 NFL season is officially in the record books and while it’s still too early to tell who will make the playoffs, a couple teams have clearly separated themselves as contenders for Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. Rolling out pays homage to those teams and a couple of other impressive…

There were many smiles to go around as the referees and the NFL were finally back to normal. While the players, coaches, and owners are definitely happy to see the pinstripes return to the gridiron, nobody is happier than the fans. Here is rolling out‘s list of best performances from week four.

Looking for an upgrade over disappointing running backs Chris Johnson and Michael Turner? Rolling out has put together a list of the best unheralded fantasy football players that could just help win you the league title. Hurry up and pick them up off the waiver wire!

While the replacement officials have garnered most of the national spotlight during Week 2 of the NFL, there were still plenty of great individual and team performances that deserve praising, so rolling out has put together a list of this week’s top performers.

With the NFL’s first week officially in the record books, rolling out has put together the top 10 performances. It remains to be seen how these performances will translate throughout the next 16 weeks, but for now the expectations for each team will be sky-high until at least next week.

Every year it seems that the same four teams (Saints, Packers, Patriots and Ravens) are in the conversation for the Super Bowl; however, the parity in the league has never been higher as teams like the Bengals and Texans have made the playoffs in recent years. Rolling out has put together a list of…

The long-awaited college football season finally kicks off Thursday, Aug. 30, and now that we can all breathe a little easier, rolling out has put together a list of the top 5 NCAA football teams in the country. Surprisingly, an SEC does not top our list; however, it’s still only August and national championships are won…

Krucial Noise singer Mateo, whose musical influences stem from Coldplay all the way to Stevie Wonder, is gearing up to make the last few months of 2012 all his. Since working with Grammy award winning producer Kerry “Krucial” Brothers and R&B queen/label-mate Alicia Keys, Mateo has started to build a loyal fan base that…

It’s that time of year again with teams opening up training camp this weekend. For all you die-hard football fans who’ve labored through a frustratingly quiet July, rolling out has put together a list of the 10 juiciest story lines heading into the 2012-13 NFL season.

“Everything’s better when you’re high,” Wiz Khalifa crooned to thousands of his adoring “Taylor Gang” fans, who came out in droves last night at Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood. At the ripe age of only 24, the Pittsburgh MC has built his music empire by seemingly trying to stay high every hour of every day. Khalifa’s…

“Show me the money!” This classic line from a character played by Cuba Gooding Jr. is typical of how many people view the sports agent and athlete relationship. While it’s true that an agent’s job is to show his client the most money, rolling out has put together a list of 5 other important criteria that…

Rolling Out has compiled a list of beers that will surely quench a woman’s thirst. Whether you’re a seasoned beer connoisseur or simply looking for starter beers to try, this list has it all. So click through the list of top 10 beers for women. Enjoy!

National best-selling author Joy Deja King is quietly creating her own monopoly in the young urban reading market with her books focused on revealing the complexities of New York street and entertainment life. King has been directly involved in New York’s fast-paced entertainment scene since leaving Pace University early on in her career, which…

The NCAA’s latest sanctions against recently deceased coach Joe Paterno and Penn State’s football program have made former Grambling State football coach Eddie Robinson the NCAA’s winningest coach. Before retiring in 1997, Robinson won 408 games in 55 years at Grambling State and sent more than 200 players to the NFL, which is an astonishing…