Category: Sports

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Nate Northington feels satisfaction every time he watches a Southeastern Conference football game and sees African-Americans playing significant roles on the field, on the sidelines and as administrators. He should: he played a major role in their success. Northington broke the SEC color barrier nearly 50 years ago. In this Sept. […]

Howard University is pushing all its chips to the center of the table and rolling the dice that a former Division I-AA national champion and Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year can change the fortunes of its football program.  Mike London, who won the 2008 title while at the University of Richmond, assumed the […]

For some, it was Floyd Mayweather’s most impressive bout. To others, it was an impressive rookie debut for Conor McGregor’s professional boxing career. For a match that started out as a spectacle when it was first announced earlier this year, it actually finished as a quality bout between two hyped fighters. Mayweather put his undefeated record on the line and McGregor took his first boxing match […]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. shocked the world Saturday night in his 10th round TKO victory over UFC star Conor McGregor. But it wasn’t Mayweather’s win over McGregor that surprised anyone.  It was how Mayweather beat McGregor that caught everyone off guard.  Everyone expected arguably the greatest defensive boxer ever to box circles around an amateur boxer […]

Baltimore native Gervonta “Tank” Davis remained undefeated after knocking out Costa Rican boxer Francisco Fonseca on Aug. 26 during the co-main event of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor’s pay-per-view fight in Las Vegas. Davis ended the fight with a left hook in the eighth round that Fonseca never got up from, which advanced Tank’s […]

Try, try and try as they might, the Cleveland Cavaliers still don’t have any answers for their nemesis out west. Since Golden State acquired Kevin Durant last summer, Cleveland, as well as every other team in the NBA, has been making every roster move and tweak they can make only to realize that it’s still […]

The 2017 edition of the Washington Nationals are on a 98-win pace.  That total would match a franchise record. They’re in first place by 12 ½ games, the second-biggest cushion in baseball. After going to Houston and winning two of three from the second-best team in the sport, they’ve gone 9-5 since MVP candidate Bryce […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. put on a show in the last fight of his spectacular career. Conor McGregor didn’t do so badly, either. Mayweather figured out a 50th opponent Saturday night, letting McGregor have the early rounds before stalking him late and leaving the mixed martial artist defenseless and exhausted on the […]

If you’ve been following all of the hype surrounding the upcoming match between legendary undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC star Connor McGregor, there’s no doubt you’ve heard a ton of trash-talk from both sides. Mayweather and McGregor are two of the most braggart personalities in all of professional sports, so fans were expecting […]

After a rocky start to his professional career, former Brandywine, Md.-based Gwynn Park High School alumnus Phil Taylor Sr., once a first round pick for the Cleveland Browns, got a second wind with his hometown team. The Clinton, Md. native was selected 21st overall by the Browns in the 2011 NFL Draft after playing for […]

During the late 1970’s then Houston Oilers quarterback Dan Pastorini made a bold declaration after a second straight AFC Championship Game loss to the great Pittsburgh Steelers. “Last year we knocked on the door, this year we banged on it, next year we’re going to kick it in.”  The Oilers never went back to that […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Kyrie Irving was tired of being teammates with LeBron James. Now he has to figure out how to beat him. FILE – In this Nov. 3, 2016, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kyrie Irving, right, looks to drive against Boston Celtics’ Isaiah Thomas during the first half of an NBA basketball game in […]