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       This year’s 2025 Bob Hayes Informational Track Meet (BHITM) was once met with a whirlwind of activities to celebrate and honor the Jacksonville legend. The Festivities included a Hall of Fame Banquet and two track meets, one honoring Coach James Day and Olympian Bob Hayes. The festivities are named after 1964 Olympian Bob ‘Bullet’ Hayes. Bob ran in the slowest lane, tied the world record of 10.0 in the 100-meter race, and won two gold medals and was once regarded at “World’s Fastest Human.”

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   Putt for purpose! NFL Hall of Famer and Miami Dolphins great Dwight Stephenson will host the Second Annual Norman Bonchick Memorial Golf Tournament in support of Broward Children’s Centerat The Club at Weston Hills on Monday, June 2.  

     Bethune-Cookman’s Asianae Nicholson was named to the BOXTOROW Women’s Basketball Division I All-American Team on March 21.

     Shaqir O’Neal is entering the NCAA Transfer Portal after spending one season on the Florida A&M men’s basketball team, On3’s Jamie Shaw reported on Saturday.

     “It’s a good start to conference play but it is still a long way to go. I think each year we transition better into conference understanding what we’re getting into especially traveling,’’ said Bethune-Cookman Head Coach Laura Watten.

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       Last week, in an exclusive interview with The Today Show, retired NBA player Dwyane Wade revealed how he discovered his kidney cancer in 2023. When he turned 40, he learned his father had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. “In the discovery of that, I also learned that my grandfather had prostate cancer. This is probably a part of my genetics and my history. Let me go get checked out,” Wade says in a video interview.           

       George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who lost the “Rumble in the Jungle” to Muhammad Ali before his inspiring second act as a 45-year-old champion and a successful businessman, died Friday night. He was 76.

       That development came after pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and Japanese American service members were taken down — the Pentagon said that was a mistake — amid the department’s campaign to strip out content singling out the contributions by women and minority groups, which the Trump administration considers “DEI.”