There is a local connection between the Richmond area and last Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Norfolk State University, which was scheduled to play its first football game of the season next week, has now decided to opt out of its winter-spring football season because of health concerns linked to the pandemic.

Leon Spinks, who won Olympic gold and then shocked the boxing world by beating Muhammad Ali to win the heavyweight title in only his eighth pro fight, died Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. He was 67.

If Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes are the rocket launchers for Super Bowl LV, then Devin White and Tyrann Mathieu represent the anti-aircraft.

Retired Temple University basketball Coach John Chaney, who was among the most successful Black coaches in basket- ball history, died Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, following a short illness. He was 89.

Lorenza “Ren” Watson wrote the book at Virginia Commonwealth University on on blocking shots. Now Hason Ward seems intent on scripting a chapter of his own.

The pursuit of a national basketball championship is well underway just north of Richmond.

Virginia Union University Athletic Director Joe Taylor has been appointed as one of five new members of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee.

Growing up poor in Mobile, Ala., during the Great Depression, Hank Aaron began playing baseball by hitting bottle caps with sticks.

The Greatest of All Time vs. the next Greatest of All Time — Tom Brady vs. Patrick Mahomes.

Coach Ann Marie Gilbert, who took the Virginia Union University Lady Panthers to the NCAA Division II championship game in 2017 before leaving last April for the University of Detroit Mercy, has run into major problems.

If one can imagine basketball as a track relay, Jermaine Marrow has handed the baton to Davion Warren at Hampton University.

Robert Saleh is the first Muslim to become a head coach in the NFL.

George Carter, a former ABA All-Star with the Virginia Squires, died Nov. 18, 2020.

The “Kendrick Warren Show, Part 2” is coming soon to a basketball court near you.