Browsing: Sports

     Now, Gary has taken his talents to the world of authors with the creation of SOLE SURVIVORS. This series aims to inspire, educate, and provide awareness of the daily health challenges children and many other people across the world face with chronic health conditions. Gary’s intent is to instill the perseverance and mental guidance to live a healthy lifestyle against all odds and to communicate that diagnoses are not barriers to success, but springboards.

      Though he was a Morehouse man, Howard University hosted a memorable celebration in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The two-day celebration exemplified the values that the late civil rights leader espoused.

     It’s no secret that cycling is an overwhelmingly white and Caucasian sport. In fact, a recent survey from USA Cycling, the national governing body of the cycling sport,  found that 86% of its members identify as white or Caucasian, while only 3% identified as Black or African American.

      Lovie Smith took over the mantle of Houston Texans head coach after watching the organization fire his former boss, David Culley, after just one year. Now, he’s experienced the same fate.

     Devin Willock, a 20-year-old offensive lineman, and Chandler LeCroy, a 24-year-old recruiting staffer and UGA graduate, died after the Ford Expedition LeCroy was driving crashed on Barnett Shoals Road. Athens-Clarke County police responded to the one-vehicle crash at 2:45 a.m.

     Sad news! According to reports, the former Alabama running back Ahmaad Galloway is dead and he was 42 years old. TMZ got the details;

   A chance meeting at a Starbucks in which a conversation was overheard  about the defunct pro basketball team, the ABA’s South Florida Gold, led to a partnership between two strangers – Coach Issac Colvin, who was there with his son Chris discussing the merits of team, and Jonathan “ JDOGG” Lederman, a frequent Starbucks visitor who often met clients there as a business consultant/promoter.    As someone who had done PA work with team, the purposeful intrusion was naturally based out of curiosity. That conversation led to Coach Colvin’s involvement in Pull Up Basketball, something Jonathan found intriguing. Thus began the partnership, though interrupted by Covid, which established the foundation for a girl’s travel basketball team AKA Pull Up Basketball.

     Americans saw pro football players weep openly on the field and during news conferences last week — a window into a deep culture shift by one of the nation’s most macho and barbaric sports.

The South Florida Basketball Association will hold its 2023 Annual Legendary Charity Luncheon on Wednesday, Jan. 18th, between 10 am – 2 pm. This celebration will be held at The Club at Boca Pointe, in Boca Raton, FL attracting hundreds of guests from South Florida and around the country. “We are thrilled to be honoring this amazing group of leaders and advance our philanthropic mission,” said Jerry Donner, President of the South Florida Basketball Association.

     Florida A&M football’s special teams coordinator Chili Davis has been selected to deliver a presentation at the 2023 American Football Coaches’ Association convention following his first season with the Rattlers.