There is a stack of reasons why hoops fans can expect big things this season from Richmond’s John Marshall High School. Let’s start with tradition.

More than 40 years after the last official Armstrong-Walker Classic football game and parade, enthusiastic former teachers and alumni are working with city officials and community volunteers to ensure its successful return this Saturday, Nov. 27.

Virginia Commonwealth University is pre- paring to face not one but three Boeheims on Wednesday, Nov. 24, in the Bahamas.

Francis “BJ” Fitzgerald is lighting up the scoreboard for Virginia State University.

Bowie State University has become a source of pride for CIAA football.

Thanksgiving can be a day for excesses. Three plates of goodies and a triple helping of NFL are forecast for homes all over Richmond.

Someone needs to knock a hole in the ceiling. NBA salaries keep going up, up, up.

For those thumbing through the Richmond Marathon pre-race information, there was this snippet: “No prize money will be awarded in 2021.”

Virginia Union University basketball fans are hopeful Demarius Pitts’ second turn as a Panther goes as well as the first.

Ceanna “Cece” Kinney is a new face with a familiar surname on Virginia Union University’s campus.

The music is still playing. Norfolk State University made it to the “Big Dance” last season and insiders feel it might be kicking up its heels again this go-round.

This won’t be a football season to fondly remember for Richmond’s five comprehensive high schools.

The Heisman Trophy was voted on and awarded for 54 years before a Black quarterback won the coveted award as college football’s premier player.

Deion Sanders’ coaching stint as Jackson State University has been sweet. But will it also be short?

After taking something of a “time out” a year ago because of the pan- demic, the Richmond Marathon is back in full force.