Great Bridge High has produced standout athletes in a variety of sports, including a handful of first-round draft picks in baseball. But one of its greatest athletes made a splash in swimming. Thompson Mann was the first swimmer to break…
WASHINGTON (7News) — Sunday was a special day at Nationals Park even before the first pitch. Before the Nationals and Cincinnati Reds took the field for the final game of the three-game series, the latest class of the D.C. Sports Hall…
Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker promised his mother and his old neighborhood he’d return to Norfolk with an Olympic gold medal. After five dominating boxing matches in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the 5-foot-6 wunderkind, 20, delivered and took his…
With 12 world championship trophies and an appearance on a Wheaties box to his name, Jon Lugbill dominated the world of Whitewater Slalom Canoe Racing during his professional career. To this day, he is still considered one of the greatest…
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA — After receiving more than 40 nominations for Chesterfield County’s first Sports Hall of Fame, presented by Virginia Credit Union, members of the selection committee voted to induct 10 individuals as part of the inaugural class.
Washington Nationals legend Ryan Zimmerman, three-time Super Bowl-winning general manager Charley Casserly and former Washington Mystics teammates Vicky Bullett and Chamique Holdsclaw are among the nine individuals who will be honored as the newest members of the D.C. Sports Hall…
When Mark Taylor succeeded Bill Cochran as the outdoors editor of The Roanoke Times in 1998, readers were wary of the new guy. “He was an institution,” Taylor said of Cochran in a phone interview Monday. “People were very suspicious…
Craig Littlepage, a 1969 Cheltenham High School graduate and former director of athletics at the University of Virginia, was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame this spring. The class, as selected by the Hall of Fame’s Board of…
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will present special exhibitions celebrating the legacies of Hall of Fame members Paul Mellon and Ruffian this summer. Both exhibits open to the public on Thursday, July 11. “We are excited…
