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UAAP Season 88 basketball tournaments
UAAP Season 88 basketball tournaments (2025–26), hosted by UST; DLSU Green Archers won the men's title over UP Fighting Maroons 80-72 in Game 3 at Araneta Coliseum, Finals MVP Mike Phillips, La Salle's 11th championship.
UAAP Season 88 volleyball tournaments
UAAP Season 88 volleyball tournaments: eight-team collegiate men's and women's leagues of UAAP Season 88, opened February 2026 at MOA Arena with a new green card fair play system; DLSU swept the women's event 16-0 for a 13th crown, FEU and NU rematched in the men's finals.
UAAP Season 89 basketball tournaments
UAAP Season 89 basketball tournaments: men's, women's, and U16 basketball of the 89th UAAP season (2026–27), hosted by Far Eastern University under the theme "For Everyone, UAAP", with La Salle defending the men's title from September 13, 2026.
UCLA Bruins men's basketball
UCLA Bruins men's basketball: UCLA's NCAA Division I team, Big Ten member since 2024. Record 11 NCAA titles (1995 most recent), 19 Final Fours, John Wooden's 10 championships and 88-game win streak, coached by Mick Cronin.
UConn Huskies men's basketball
The UConn Huskies men's basketball program represents the University of Connecticut in Storrs and has won six NCAA national championships, in 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2023, and 2024.
UConn Huskies women's basketball
UConn Huskies women's basketball: University of Connecticut NCAA Division I program in Storrs, Connecticut, coached by Geno Auriemma since 1985. Record 12 national championships, 25 Final Fours, six perfect seasons, and the all-time college basketball coaching wins record.
Udonis Haslem
Udonis Haslem, Miami Heat forward (2003–2023), three-time NBA champion and franchise all-time leading rebounder with 5,791 boards; oldest player in NBA Finals history at 42 years, 364 days.
UMMC Ekaterinburg (УГМК)
UMMC Ekaterinburg (УГМК, UMMC Yekaterinburg) is a Russian women's basketball club owned by the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, with 19 Russian titles and six EuroLeague Women championships; Brittney Griner played there until her 2022 detention.
Umoja Gibson
Umoja Adeyemi Gibson (born 1998) is an American-born, naturalized Bulgarian point guard who plays for FC Barcelona in the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague.
Uncle Drew
Uncle Drew, also known as the Uncle Drew Pepsi Max campaign and 2018 Lionsgate film, is an elderly streetball persona played by Kyrie Irving in old-age makeup, created by Pepsi in 2012, with over 100 million short views and a $42.5 million US gross.
United States Basketball League (2026)
United States Basketball League (USBL), also called The League of Opportunity, a spring professional basketball league founded 1985, shuttered 2008, relaunched for 2026; Seattle SuperHawks won the 2026 title.
United States men's national basketball team
United States men's national basketball team, Team USA, USA Basketball-selected squad for Olympics and FIBA World Cup; 1936 gold pioneer, 1992 Dream Team, five straight Olympic titles through 2024, but 2019 and 2023 World Cup setbacks.
United States men's national volleyball team
The United States men's national volleyball team represents the US in international play, with Olympic gold in 1984, 1988, and 2008 and the 1986 World Championship title.
United States women's national basketball team
The United States women's national basketball team, run by USA Basketball, has won nine Olympic golds in 11 tournaments, holds a 78-3 Olympic record with a 61-game win streak, and won its 12th FIBA World Cup title in Berlin in 2026.
University of Michigan basketball scandal
University of Michigan basketball scandal (Ed Martin scandal): booster Ed Martin gave about $616,000 in gambling-derived payments to Webber, Taylor, Traylor, and Bullock, leading to 112 vacated wins, banner removals, and NCAA probation.
UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball
UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball: University of Nevada, Las Vegas men's program in the Mountain West, playing at Thomas & Mack Center; 1990 NCAA champions under Jerry Tarkanian, beating Duke 103-73; current head coach Josh Pastner.
Unrivaled (basketball)
Unrivaled is a women's 3-on-3 basketball league founded in 2023 by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, played in Miami during the WNBA offseason.
UpShot League
The UpShot League (UPSHOT) is a Jacksonville-based professional women's basketball league co-founded by Donna Orender and Andy Kaufmann, launched May 15, 2026 with four Southeastern teams, a May-September season, $40 million raised, and 2027 expansion to Baltimore and Nashville.
USC Trojans men's basketball
USC Trojans men's basketball: University of Southern California's Division I program, founded 1907, now in the Big Ten after leaving the Pac-12; Final Four 1940, Elite Eight 2001 and 2021, coached by Eric Musselman since 2024.
Utah Jazz
Utah Jazz, formerly New Orleans Jazz, NBA team in Salt Lake City since 1979; two Finals losses to Chicago (1997, 1998), zero titles, Delta Center home, owned by Ryan Smith's SEG.
V. J. Edgecombe
VJ Edgecombe (VJ Edgecombe Jr.), Bahamian guard born 2005; Baylor freshman, Big 12 Freshman of the Year; drafted third overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in 2025, NBA All-Rookie Team.
Valdemaras Novickis
Valdemaras Novickis (1956-2022), Lithuanian handball player and coach; Olympic gold 1988 and silver 1980 with the USSR, 1982 world champion, Granitas Kaunas IHF Cup winner, later national team coach.
Valentin Porte
Valentin Porte (born 1990, Versailles) is a French left-handed handball right back and right wing for Montpellier Handball. France captain from 2021, he won Olympic gold 2020, World titles 2015 and 2017, and retired internationally after Paris 2024.
Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova
Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova (Валентина Каменёк-Виноградова), Soviet volleyball player, born 1943 Moscow, died 2002 St. Petersburg; Olympic silver 1964 Tokyo and gold 1968 Mexico City, European champion 1963 and 1967.
Valentina Lutayeva
Valentina Lutayeva (Валентина Ивановна Лутаева, born Berzina), Ukrainian handball goalkeeper, 1956–2023, won Olympic gold with the Soviet Union at the 1980 Moscow Games, playing all five matches; later a teacher and coach in Zaporizhzhia.
Valentina Ogiyenko
Valentina Ogiyenko (Огие́нко, also Makovetskaya), born 1965, Soviet and Russian volleyball first-tempo attacker; 1988 Olympic gold, 1992 silver, 1990 world champion, FIVB 1989 Best Player, 2019 Hall of Fame, later Uralochka general director.
Valery Gassy
Valery Gassy (Валерий Дмитриевич Гассий, 1949-2004), Soviet handball center back from Kolomiya, Ukraine; Burevestnik Krasnodar and CSKA player; Olympic gold medalist with the USSR at Montreal 1976, fifth at Munich 1972, 83 caps and 277 goals for the Soviet national team.
Valery Goborov
Valery Goborov (Валерий Григорьевич Гоборов; born 1965 or 1966) was a Soviet basketball center from Kherson who played for SKA Kyiv and CSKA Moscow, won gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and died in a Moscow car crash on 7 September 1989.
Valery Gopin
Valery Pavlovich Gopin (Валерий Павлович Гопин), born 1964 in Seltso, is a Russian handball wing who won Olympic gold in 1988 with the Soviet Union and 1992 with the Unified Team, plus the 1996 European title.
Valery Kalachikhin
Valery Kalachikhin (1939–2014) was a Soviet volleyball setter who won Olympic gold at Tokyo 1964 and later coached SKA Rostov-on-Don and the army teams of Vietnam and Madagascar.