Former world boxing champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini is coming to the Richmond area.

Virginia University of Lynchburg has a new football coach but an old problem — trying to succeed against far more established programs.

Two Taylors added up to one exciting Virginia Union University football victory as the Alvin Parker coaching era got underway.

There’s good news and not so good news regarding Virginia State University football. The uplifting news is that 2017 VSU sensation Trenton Cannon appears to have made the NFL New York Jets’ 53-man roster.

Norfolk State University’s football role has quickly switched from clear favorite to distant long shot.

Kevin Gayles Jr. knows the way to the end zone. The swift, sure-handed Huguenot High School wide receiver needs no GPS or compass to reach his preferred gridiron destination.

Two physical assets baseball players covet most are power at the plate and speed on the base paths. Jamari Baylor has a high supply of both.

Never judge a book by its cover. Kevon Dark may not look like a traditional football standout, but he sure plays like one.

Virginia Union University has had lots to brag about during it’s more than a century of football. The only problem is it has been a while — some contend way too long — since the Panthers have been able to …

On the NCAA football pecking order, Norfolk State University is Division I and Virginia State University is Division II.

If anyone was ever born to box, it’s 17-year-old Jermoin’e Royster, a George Wythe High School senior and member of Cobra Boxing Gym at the Southside Community Center.

Darius Taylor was Virginia Union University’s surprise package a year ago. From someone who wasn’t even on the 2017 opening day roster, the Washington native emerged practically out of nowhere as one of the CIAA’s most prolific quarterbacks.

The CIAA has extended its southern footprint to the state of South Carolina. Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C., becomes the historically black athletic conference’s 13th member this fall and will compete in the CIAA Southern Division.

Richmond native Jackie Bradley Jr. is in the front seat of what promises to be a record ride by the Boston Red Sox.

Armando Bacot is the latest Richmond area basketball standout to say “yes” to the University of North Carolina’s historically successful program.