Liam Bradford

For most families, a summer road trip means a vacation. For the DeMellos, it’s all business. Another summer road trip means another chance to compete for a world championship.

Danny Griffin hopes customers are strangers only once.

Ethical Hoopers, a co-ed elite team making its Hoopfest debut, isn't just competing for a championship. Its four players — New York-based FIBA 3x3 player and content creator Jack Appleby, basketball creators Austin Nam and Gia Mancini and teammate Caleb La-Anyane — have built an online following of more than half a million people by promoting a version of basketball they believe is increasingly difficult to find online: one centered on teamwork, fundamentals and sportsmanship.

For most basketball players, Hoopfest is where the summer begins.

Every morning before school, Erica Davis told her son the same thing.

When Shari McMahan was 23, her father died of cancer. A few years later, her mother died from heart disease. Losing both parents so early in her life, McMahan made it a point to prioritize physical and mental health.

Teenagers are often more comfortable confiding in friends than an adult.

The restaurant formerly known as Table 13 has a new name, a new look and a new mission.