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Gridiron star is hoopin’ it up

Among the area’s top football prospects doubles as a basketball standout. Darius Gray is a difference maker in sneakers as well as shoulder pads for St. Christopher’s School in Richmond’s leafy West End.

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VCU beats UMass; ready for Davidson on Saturday

Just prior to the Atlantic 10 tournament in March, conference coaches will gather in Pittsburgh to vote on the A-10 Player of the Year.

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Highland Springs football dynasty ends; TJ plays Nov. 29 for region title

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.

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John Marshall’s players reveal college courts

Three John Marshall High basketball athletes are taking their jump shots to the next level.

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Hampton alum becomes first Black head football coach at Marshall University

Hampton University alumnus Charles Huff has become the first Black head football coach at Marshall University.

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HU’s Godwin and Garvin heading to Harlem’s HBCU classic

Hampton University will be well represented at the HBCU All-Star Dream Classic Aug. 5 at the famed Rucker Park in Harlem.

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Gregory Odom Jr. takes honors in collegiate championship

Howard University golf is back on the map and Gregory Odom Jr. is making the most of the opportunity.

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VSU beats NSU in double-overtime exhibition game

It was just an exhibition game, but Virginia State University, an NCAA Division II team, flexed its muscles against Norfolk State University, a Division I team, on Saturday, Nov. 5, in Ettrick.

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Former VSU star Trenton Cannon will wear No.40 in Aug.16 NFL exhibition game

Former Virginia State University football star Trenton Cannon, nicknamed “Boom,” will wear the No. 40 jersey for the New York Jets in the Thursday, Aug. 16, exhibition game against Washington at FedEx Field.

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East beats West in MJBL All-Star Game

Tyshawn Cooke was among the offensive standouts in the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League’s All-Star Game last Saturday.

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Few black coaches at top tier teams

On NCAA football’s top tier — Bowl Championship Subdivision (BCS) — statistics show a dramatic disparity. African-Americans comprise 53 percent of athletes but only 11 percent of head coaches, according to a 2014 report of The Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sport.

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Cleo Hill Sr., 77, CIAA star, first-round NBA pick, dies

Cleo Hill Sr., one of the CIAA’s all-time basketball greats, has died. He was 77. Following a lengthy illness, Mr. Hill died Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, at his home in Orange, N.J.

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Ali was golden starting in 1960 Olympics

The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome were held during the height of the bitter Cold War. Helping to ease world tension was 18-year-old Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., just two months after his graduation from Central High School in Louisville, Ky., where he was a bit of a class clown.

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Wartime didn't stop basketball trailblazer Wataru Misaka

COVID-19 has done what World War II couldn’t. It has put a halt to one of America’s sporting treasures – the NCAA basketball tournament.

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Muhammad Ali’s grandson launches pro boxing career

Boxing fans have heard the name before: Ali.

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Armstrong bracing for bigger opponents

Armstrong High School football Coach McDaniel Anderson says he is searching for a cure for what he calls “the inner city blues.”

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Randolph-Macon in pursuit of national basketball championship

The pursuit of a national basketball championship is well underway just north of Richmond.

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Chicago is feeling Sky high

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

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Cheyney women made NCAA ‘herstory’

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.