If the NCAA Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year was announced today, Kenny Brooks might be a leading contender.

The curtain fell on Virginia Union University’s outstanding basketball season late Sunday night in Indiana, Pa.

For the first time in three seasons, Norfolk State’s Spartans won’t be kicking up their heels at the NCAA Big Dance. But for the first time since 1992, Howard’s Bison will.

You don’t have to play basketball at a large high school to become a college star. James Patterson is proof of that.

Like father, like daughter.

In case you weren’t watching, a Black man won the Daytona 500. And it wasn’t Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s most prominent Black driver.

Alyssa Thompson is an 18-year-old high school senior with a professional soccer contract.

It might not be over yet for Antoine Davis.

Tahraun Hammond is to Virginia State University baseball what Shohei Ohtani is to the major leagues.

John Marshall High School’s boys’ basketball team is heading into the State 2A Finals with enough momentum to move a mountain.

VCU has been chewing up the competition of late, but it’s still hungry for more. Now it yearns to take a juicy bite out of the Big Apple.

In another week or so, Norfolk State will either be kicking up its heels at the NCAA Big Dance, or dejectedly asking, “What if?”

Heading north on I-95, it took Virginia Union University’s bus about two hours and 35 minutes to reach Baltimore, site of the CIAA basketball tournament. It probably felt like a lot longer coming back.

Adrian “Ace” Baldwin Jr. is merely the best player on the best team in the Atlantic 10.

Don’t forget the John Marshall girls.