Category: Sports

American driver Ryan Hunter-Reay captured the IndyCar Series penultimate crown in the second annual Grand Prix of Baltimore on a rainy Sunday Sept. 2 at the Inner Harbor of downtown Baltimore, Md. Hunter-Reay, a 28-year-old driver for DHL and Andretti Autosport team, won first place after stealing the lead from Australian driver Ryan Briscoe with […]

The 2012 Baltimore Grand Prix zoomed off to a strong start with a few practice runs on Friday Aug. 31 and several American Le Mans Series races presented by Tequila Patron Racing on Sept. 1 in the Inner Harbor area of downtown Baltimore, Md. The Baltimore Sports Car Challenge, one of the American Le Mans […]

The Washington Redskins beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in lopsided fashion, 30-3, on Aug. 29 in Game Four of the 2012 National Football League (NFL) preseason at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. The fourth and final game of NFL preseason play is always the most boring game to watch because starters typically don’t play. Most […]

The Baltimore Ravens took a loss in their final action of the 2012 NFL preseason, falling to the St. Louis Rams, 31-17, on Aug. 30 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Mo. The Ravens sat most of its significant starters the entire game against the Rams, including fifth-year starting quarterback Joe Flacco and […]

Leading up to the showdown between the top two picks in April’s draft, rookie quarterbacks Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were pumped up for another tune-up before the season starts in two weeks. And while preseason contests rarely matter much, the battle between two potential franchise saviors took center stage before more than 60,000 […]

Terrell Owens’ NFL return lasted less than three weeks. Owens was released by the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, part of the league-mandated roster reductions from 90 to 75 players. The 38-year-old posted a message on his Twitter account shortly before 11 a.m. PDT that he had been released and the Seahawks made the move official […]

Black college football officially gets underway Labor Day weekend in D.C. as the second annual AT&T Nation’s Football Classic kicks off on Sept. 1 at 3:30 p.m. at RFK Stadium in Northeast Washington, D.C. The meeting will mark the 2012 college football season opener for both Howard University and Morehouse College, and the second straight […]

Morgan State University will kick off it’s 2012 football season with a matchup against Sacred Heart University on Sept. 1. But perhaps the most prominent game Morgan State will play this season doesn’t come until Nov. 17, when they face Hampton University in the 41st annual New York Urban League Classic, which will be played […]

Condoleezza Rice, the first female African-American Secretary of State, made more history on Aug. 20 as she was named as one of the first two women members of the Masters Golf Club at Augusta National in Augusta, Ga. According to the {Associated Press}, Rice, a 57-year-old Stanford University political science professor, and South Carolina financer […]

NBA star Kevin Durant has shined on the basketball court since his days at University of Texas. He’ll now get a chance to shine on the silver screen as the star of a new kids-themed film, “Thunderstruck,” scheduled for release nationwide on Aug. 24. Joining Durant on the movie cast is Taylor Gray, a star […]

The Baltimore Ravens played their best game of the preseason so far, beating the Jacksonville Jaguars, 48-17, on Aug. 23 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. The Ravens are now 2-1 with one more preseason game left to tune up before the regular season begins on Sept. 10. Here’s how the game played out: […]