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All eyes will be on Dwayne Haskins as Washington’s training camp opens
Doug Williams was the first African-American quarterback to make an impression with the NFL’s Washington franchise. Dwayne Haskins figures to be the most current.
Gone too soon
Sports world has been rocked through the years by loss of young athletes
The tragic death of basketball icon Kobe Bryant stirs painful memories of other athletes who died much too young.
Taylor scores 3 TDs as Panthers spring to victory
Virginia Union University tailback Tabyus Taylor has the size of a lineman but the speed of a sprinter. That rare combination of physical gifts has made him the CIAA’s most feared running back at this juncture.
Consistency, power and speed drive baseball’s roster of diverse talent
With Luis Arraez high stepping at the head of the pack, players of color are displaying a parade of excellence in big league baseball.
Steph Curry finishes season with NBA scoring title
Steph Curry enjoyed a banner season, but his team, the Golden State Warriors, didn’t.
4 Black athletes to be inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
Bud Fowler died more than 100 years ago, but his name still reverberates with baseball historians. Fowler is one of four Black athletes selected to the 2022 Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2022. Induction ceremonies will be July 24 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Iconic West End gym courts Christo Rey’s hoop dreams
One of the area’s oldest and most historic gymnasiums has a new tenant that’s excited about branding a reputation of its own.
Double your pleasure at VSU-VUU Classic
Let Freedom ring. Doors open at 2 p.m. Saturday for the annual Freedom Classic Festival that combines basketball with numerous community and cultural activities.
Players of color in Flying Squirrels lineup
By gallantly breaking baseball’s color line, Jackie Robinson opened doors for talented young athletes not only in America, but everywhere. Since April 15, 1947, the date Robinson debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers, doors have swung open at baseball organizations from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles to include players of color. The diversity of talent was visible on April 15 in Richmond, where the Flying Squirrels celebrated Jackie Robinson Day-Education Day at The Diamond and took on the visiting team from Altoona, Pa. The Squirrels, the Eastern League farm club of the World Series champion San Francisco Giants, have no African-American players.
Golden State’s winning streak halted by Milwaukee
No one is contesting the Golden State Warriors’ status as the NBA’s best team last year and thus far this season. But are the Warriors the best of all time? Led by Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, the Oakland franchise is on pace to achieve the top winning record since the NBA was founded in 1946.
Tubby Smith hired to coach at Memphis
Tubby Smith, whose coaching roots can be traced to Virginia Commonwealth University, is on pace to become the most successful African-American basketball coach in NCAA Division I annals. Smith, 64, was hired last week at the University of Memphis after spending the past three years at Texas Tech University. In coaching stops at Tulsa (1991-95), Georgia (1995-97), Kentucky (1998-2007), Minnesota (2007-13) and Texas Tech, he has amassed a record of 557-276 (67 percent).
Jackie Robinson Day commemorated by MLB on Aug. 28
In this unprecedented year of sports, April 15 — better known in Major League Baseball as Jackie Robinson Day — became Aug. 28.
African-American baseball standouts snapped up in MLB draft
Who will be the Major League Baseball’s nextAfrican- American All-Star?
Top NBA draft choice spent a week on college team
James Wiseman offers new meaning to the basketball term “one and done.”
Jackson helps VSU clinch first win
Andre Jackson won the Virginia high-jump championship his senior year at Hampton’s Phoebus High School. Considering that, it’s no wonder he has quickly hopped into the spotlight as a redshirt freshman receiver and kick returner for Virginia State University.
VCU has rare loss at home — to U.Va.
Two things Virginia Commonwealth University basketball thrives on are quality transfers and home games at the always rowdy, jam-packed Siegel Center.
NBA players netting big bucks
There are buckets of money to be made playing professional basketball, if you’re very, very good at it.
A star is born: NBA draft expected to pick talent from U.S. and abroad
The NBA’s reward for a team having a miserable season is a high draft pick and hopes of a brighter future. Thus, the Phoenix Suns vault from having the worst standings to first in the 2018 draft of incoming talent.
5 of 7 African-American NFL coaches sacked
African-Americans seem to be on the NFL’s endangered coaching list. Only two black head coaches remain in the 32-team league after five were fired recently.
