NEW YORK– Rice High School, a school famed for producing basketball stars Kemba Walker and Felipe Lopez, is closing  permanently due to financial troubles that plagued the school for over a decade.

University of Connecticut guard Kemba Walker admitted in a recent Sports Illustrated interview that he had recently read his first book cover-to-cover. THE ROOT.COM REPORTS: Last spring Walker approached academic counselor Felicia Crump and asked her if there was a way that he could earn his sociology degree before entering the draft the following year. […]