By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com This week’s Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference will mark the end of an era for two of the most accomplished players in the history of Howard University’s basketball program. Ayonna and Charles Williams, who aren’t related, other than as siblings of the program, will be remembered as highly decorated […]
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DCIAA Review: Gonzaga Beats Wilson For DC State Title
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com The D.C. State Athletic Association Class AA boys’ basketball championship game gave Wilson High School a chance to erase the memory of a heartbreaking loss in the DCIAA championship game to Theodore Roosevelt a week earlier. The veterans who remained from last year’s team were playing in […]
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Sports Review: LA Wildcats Hammer DC Defenders in First Road Game
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com After all the warm and fuzziness that accompanied two triumphant home victories to open the season, the D.C. Defenders first road trip had to be considered a resounding failure. The Defenders were manhandled by the Los Angeles Wildcats 39-9. This debacle was defined by the dominance […]
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HU Report: North Carolina A&T Sweeps Howard
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com Kenny Blakeney’s first year at Howard may not have netted as many wins as he hoped for, but his team continues to fight. At the start of the final regular season road trip to North Carolina, the Bison had the chance to pull off the biggest upset […]
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Roosevelt and Dunbar Win DCIAA Basketball Titles
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com It was a tale of two sagas on the final day of the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association Championship Tournament. The girls of Dunbar left no doubt who was the best team in the city with another blowout victory over Banneker. On the other hand, the boys match […]
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Defenders Win Over New York
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com Despite taking the field with heavy hearts, the DC Defenders found their will and imposed it on the New York Guardians to become the first 2-0 in the XFL with a 27-0 win at Audi Field. The Defenders started the game with heavy hearts after the passing […]
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Willie Wood Dies at 83
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com If you ask Willie Wood, Jr. about what it was like growing up with a Pro Football Hall of Fame dad, he would often quip that it wasn’t any different from a child who had an influential father figure in his life. “The only difference was that […]
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HU Football: Reports Say Larry Scott Will Succeed Ron Prince
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com For the third time in four years, Howard University will take the field with a new football coach this fall. Multiple reports say University of Florida’s tight end coach Larry Scott is expected to leave one of the premiere college programs in America for the chance to […]
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Sports Review: Yale Visits Howard For MLK Day Matinee
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com The intersection of sports and civil rights achievements came together for a uniquely ironic celebration on Dr. Martin Luther King’s federal holiday. At the end of Yale’s 89-75 win over Howard in Northwest, D.C., Bulldogs coach James Jones and Bison coach Kenny Blakeney shared a long, respectful […]
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Bison Playing Better Despite MEAC Home Losses
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com There are growing pains that come with the transition from high school to college and for Howard University they have hit the men’s basketball program along with new head coach Kenny Blakeney. Behind his calm demeanor and steel-eyed confidence beats a fierce competitor who remains confident that […]
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Howard Swept By BCU in MEAC Home Openers
By Mark F. Gray Staff Writer mgray@afro.com Rarely, if ever, do a men’s and women’s basketball team become mirror images of one another but such was the case when Bethune Cookman University (BCU) visited Howard for early season Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference games at Burr Gymnasium. However, to borrow an analogy from boxing, styles make fights […]
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Georgetown Wins Despite Defections
By Mark F. Gray Staff Writer mgray@afro.com That Georgetown defeated it’s fiercest rivals from the University of Syracuse was almost a footnote to what appeared to be final defections from the men’s basketball program that remains shrouded in controversy. The Hoyas beat their long time Big East rival – who now play in the Atlantic […]