By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com During the 2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) football media day in Norfolk, VA, it was clear the league’s coaches and sports information directors had a great deal of respect for the talent pool at Howard and Morgan State. With a total of 18 preseason all conference players between […]
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Fighter Dies After Fight Card At MGM
By Mark F. Gray, AFRO Staff Writer, mgray@afro.com A damaging blow may have been dealt to major boxing matches coming to Maryland after the death of a fighter during a nationally televised card at MGM National Harbor. Junior welterweight Maxim Dadashev died July 23 as a result of brain injuries suffered during an 11th-round knockout loss to […]
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Coco Comes to D.C.
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Rising tennis sensation Cori “Coco” Gauff is coming off her Wimbledon high, where she wowed the world when she defeated legendary player Venus Williams, and keeping up momentum at Citi Open. “I’m excited to be playing in D.C. It’s one of my favorite cities,” Gauff said at the Citi […]
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Bethea Starts Season with NY Giants
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com New York Giants safety Antoine Bethea is getting a chance to live out his dreams. In 2015 Bethea went undrafted and signed as a free agent with the Indianapolis Colts. After 13 years,183 games, and a Super Bowl victory, the former Howard University safety heads to training […]
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The Champ Is Here!
By AFRO Staff The Pride of Baltimore, Gervonta “Tank” Davis defended his WBA Super Featherweight title at downtown’s Royal Farms Arena on July 27. Davis defeated Ricardo Nunez of Panama, with a sensational technical knockout (TKO) in round two of the scheduled 12-round contest. Davis’ victory takes his record to a perfect 22-0, with an […]
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Bowie State Picked To Win CIAA Football Title
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com Conference media day is the time when wolf tickets are sold and targets are placed on teams who are on top even when evidence suggests there figures to be a dropoff after transcendent seasons. When the CIAA held its preseason football media kickoff in Roanoke, VA last […]
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Maryland’s Baines Enters Hall
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Former Baltimore Oriole Harold Baines, one of the deadliest clutch hitters in the history of Major League Baseball and a native of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY last weekend. Eastern Shore native Harold Baines, a notorious clutch hitter for the […]
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Another Viewpoint: ‘Pigs Get Fat; Hogs Get Slaughtered’
By Tim Lacy, AFRO Columnist THE NFL SEEMS TO BE MONOPOLIZING THIS SPACE with news that is unpopular with this scribe. The most recent development centers around the proposal to expand the season from 16 games to 18 games. Throw in the play offs and you’ve got a bunch of guys walking around in a daze […]
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Sun Rise to Top
By Doug Feinberg, The Associated Press The Connecticut Sun has risen back to the top of the WNBA standings behind solid play from Jonquel Jones and Alyssa Thomas. The Sun received major contributions from the reserves, which scored 45 points in a rout of Atlanta last week. “When the starters always get referred to as a […]
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MMA Great Anderson Silva Becomes US Citizen
By NATALIE RICE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mixed martial arts great Anderson “Spider” Silva of Brazil became a U.S. citizen along with thousands of others in a mass naturalization ceremony Tuesday at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Silva took his oath of citizenship along with his son Kalyl, 20, and daughter Kaory, 23. […]
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Pumpsie Green, 1st Black Player on Boston Red Sox, Dies
By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox infielder Elijah “Pumpsie” Green, the first Black player on the last major league team to field one, has died. He was 85. The Red Sox said Green, who lived in California most of his life, died Wednesday while hospitalized in San Leandro, […]
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BSU Ranked No. 25 In Division II Poll
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com National respect for the Bowie State football program has been a long time coming, but it has finally arrived. The defending CIAA champions, who won their first postseason game ever last season, find themselves ranked in the top 25 nationally heading toward the kickoff of the 2019 season. […]