Mark West and BJ Upton were officially inducted into the Hampton Roads Sports Hall of Fame, along with longtime sports writer David Teel, lacrosse legend Tom Duquette and tennis great Julie Shiflet...
Granville (Granny) Hamner was born on April 26, 1927 in Richmond, Virginia. He grew up idolizing his older brother, Garvin, and even playing in the same sports as him. By his senior year of high school, Hamner was a captain…
The ACC has staged 69 football seasons. The only one in which two of the league’s teams ascended to No. 1 was 1990. The University of Virginia has played 1,345 football games. None was larger than Nov. 3, 1990, against…
The Hampton Roads Sports Hall of Fame announced that Mark West, a former Old Dominion basketball star, is part of the 2021 induction class. Joining West in the 2021 Hall of Fame class are baseball standout Melvin “B.J.” Upton, tennis…
Before Bubba Wallace, there was Wendell Scott. On Monday, Wallace became only the second Black driver to win in NASCAR’s top racing series. His win comes more than 50 years after Scott became the first.
Roger Brown, a Pro Bowl defensive lineman for the famed Fearsome Foursomes of the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams in the 1960s, died Friday morning. Brown, a Surry County native who retired to Portsmouth and became a restaurateur, was…
There are five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the state of Virginia and two of them had alumni inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame over the weekend. Bob Dandridge hails from Norfolk State University, while Ben…
Bobby Dandridge had been waiting for the call for over three decades and he missed it. He checked his phone and saw a missed call from Springfield, MA. That's where the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is located, so he…
Not that long ago, it was a time when African-Americans could not take simple privileges — like staying at certain hotels or eating in certain restaurants — for granted. For Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper, and Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, it was a…
After three decades of waiting for the call from the Hall, Bob Dandridge is finally getting his just due. Dandridge, a Norfolk State University hoops legend who played 13 seasons in the NBA and won two titles, will be inducted…