Last year it was Frenchman Victor Wembanyama who burst onto the NBA scene. This time it’s Alexandre Saar, a 7-foot-1 native of Bordeaux, who has the pro scouts buzzing.

Joel Embiid sports the colors red, white and blue for his NBA team, the Philadelphia 76ers. So it’s fitting he’ll wear red, white and blue for the United States for the upcoming Olympics in Paris.

Watch your step. Few revolving doors have spun as fast as the door leading to the Washington Commanders’ quarterback room.

The Virginia Union University golf team has earned the right to point to the sky and shout: “We’re No. 1.”

With the third and seventh picks of the WNBA draft, the skies brightened over Chicago.

Morgan Price has made gymnastics history – just like her coach did decades earlier.

The Boston Marathon, as usual, had an East African flavor.

Jackie Robinson Day honors the courageous and wondrously talented man who broke baseball’s color barrier.

The Hampton University sailing team won its third straight regatta, capturing the Grant Trophy on April 13-14 at Strawberry Banks in Hampton.

Fans don’t often see them now in Major League baseball, but HBCU players have left a star-shaped mark on the sport. The illustrious list of long-ago standouts includes numerous Major League Hall of Famers and several others with local connections.

Baseball, “The National Pastime,” is getting more and more international.

Only one college offered Justin Journette a baseball scholarship while he was in high school. As it turned out, that one was enough.

The University of South Carolina women’s basketball ended its season with the same number of losses it started with – zero.

For decades, UCLA represented the gold standard of college basketball. But now, the Bruins have become yesterday’s news. Connecticut has taken their place. The balance of power has shifted from Los Angeles to Storrs, Conn.

Cheyney (Pa.) State University is far removed from the brightest stage of women’s college basketball now, but that was far from the case in 1982.