VIRGINIA BEACH — Sonny Allen's legacy as a basketball coach is unassailable. He won a national championship and 181 games in 10 years at Old Dominion and set scoring records that likely never will broken, won 613 games as a head coach…
VIRGINIA BEACH — It was the names that struck David Wright the most. The longtime New York Mets star and Hampton Roads native perused the list of his fellow inductees into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday and…
VIRGINIA BEACH (WAVY) – For the first time since 2019, the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame held an official induction ceremony. In an event emceed by WAVY TV Sports Director Craig Loper, 11 inductees (from the Class of 2020 and…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Due to to the pandemic, the Virginia Sports Hall Of Fame hadn't been able to officially enshrine anyone. In 2020, they had a class, but no audience. By 2021 they decided not pick anyone, so after…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WSET) — For Dennis Carter, his big night at the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame was a long time coming. The retired ABC13 Sports Director spent 37 years highlighting Virginia athletes, and was set for induction into the…
LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Not much fazes retired ABC13 Sports Director Dennis Carter. In a career that spanned 37 years, with countless 'Football Fridays," college football bowl games, and 'March Madness', Carter says his impending induction into the Virginia Sports Hall…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — In just two days, the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame will hold its induction. It’s an induction three years in the making. In 2019, the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame announced the class of 2020, including WAVY’s own…
Virginia Baseball alum Mike Cubbage spent a half-century in baseball, all told. Cubbage, on the eve of his induction in the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, joins the “Jerry Ratcliffe Show” to talk about his life in the national past…
If the Green Bay Packers hope to win a fifth Super Bowl, they may want to find Aaron Rodgers a wide receiver from Virginia Tech. The Packers have started a receiver from Virginia Tech on three of their four Super…
Bill Leffler once mused that maybe he’d keep his sportswriting gig until the calendar reached 2031. “And maybe I could become the country’s first 100-year-old sportswriter,” Leffler wrote in a column published upon retirement — his second stab at it…