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…
If it didn’t really sink in when he slipped to the 10th pick in the 1998 NBA draft, Paul Pierce got the message when he went home to Los Angeles to play in the All-Star Game and got booed by…
Before he became a force of nature on the hardwood, Ben Wallace experienced working on cotton fields in the sweltering backwoods of Alabama. Wallace grew up in White Hall, a small town named after a plantation in the state’s ninth-poorest county…
As an undrafted, undersized center who averaged less than six points per game for his career, Ben Wallace has nevertheless battled his way into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2021 as one of the best defensive players…
Absent from a Lane Stadium broadcasting booth for six seasons, Bill Roth is scheduled to work two games in the next two weeks from his familiar perch, with Shane Beamer’s head coaching debut sandwiched between.
Before Saturday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR will celebrate the legacy of NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Wendell Scott and present the Scott family with a trophy commemorating the driver’s historic victory on Dec. 1, 1963…
CINCINNATI — It was a big night for Marty Brennaman, as he's the first to enter the Reds Hall of Fame as a broadcaster. Brennaman spent 46 years behind the microphone calling Cincinnati Reds games on the radio. He was…