VCU’s rich basketball history features a lengthy list of impressive big men. Marcus Santos-Silva is the latest shining example.

A second-generation Wade is helping to fuel Old Dominion University basketball this season.

Jordan Peebles is a high-wire act without the trapeze and safety net. The Virginia Union University junior does his best work high above the floor for Coach Jay Butler’s Panthers.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s basketball team is off to its best start in school history, but the road ahead is looking rocky.

This has been something of a “meet-and-greet” basketball season at Virginia State University. With the top five scorers gone from last year’s CIAA championship squad, name tags might be helpful in knowing the “rookies.”

It’s over. After four straight state championships and 40 consecutive wins, the curtain finally fell on what has been the greatest show in local high school football history.

It took him 44 years, but Bill Russell finally accepted his Basketball Hall of Fame ring.

The Richmond Marathon is an annual gathering for thousands of local and state runners, plus a group of elite runners. Again, elite runners from an African nation were the winners last Saturday.

Joe Taylor may need to add another shelf to his already bulging trophy case. Taylor, vice president for intercollegiate athletics and community wellness at Virginia Union University, has been named to the Black College Football Hall of Fame.

You win some. You lose some. And sometimes you just scratch your head. Virginia State University hoped it had made the field for the NCAA Division II Region 2 football playoffs. But Coach Reggie Barlow’s Trojans never saw Miles College …

Swinging a football helmet at someone’s head is a terrible thing. Swinging a baseball bat at an opponent’s noggin is far more hazardous. The sports world has been abuzz about the NFL “Footbrawl” on Nov. 14 in which the Cleveland …

There are buckets of money to be made playing professional basketball, if you’re very, very good at it.

For thousands of runners, the time has come to lace up the sneakers, stretch the quads and hamstrings and pray all the training will pay off. The Richmond Marathon, now in its 42nd year, has become a bold-letter event throughout …

Virginia State University has taken care of business on the football field. Now the Trojans must wait and hope. By edging Virginia Union University 27-24 in overtime last Saturday at Rogers Stadium in Ettrick, VSU is positioned for — but …

Lual Rahama, answering to “Daniel,” isn’t a new face at Virginia State University. But the Sudan native is new to the spotlight.