HILLSVILLE, Va. – It’s one of the most successful athletic programs in Southwest Virginia. The players are introduced to the game in elementary school and spend years learning the finer points of pressure defense and disciplined offense. It’s Carroll County girls basketball. The Cavaliers added another chapter to their legacy in Tuesday’s semifinal round of [...]

Duke University’s plans to give an honorary degree to the head of a leading cancer charity are unchanged by controversy over the group’s hastily retracted decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. The Herald-Sun of Durham reports (http://bit.ly/xRZ6Pp ) that Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is one [...]

San Juan Hills High School cheerleaders put on their first basketball cheer clinic Saturday afternoon in the school gym, showing potential future cheerleaders the ropes on dancing and getting a crowd revved up. Participants in the clinic will get the chance to perform at a San Juan Hills varsity basketball game Friday. Parents paid $55 [...]

Jarvis Watkins had 19 points and Gabe Bealer added 16 points as No. 5 Antelope defeated El Camino 56-51 in the Capital Athletic League boys basketball opener tonight. In other games involving Bee Top 20 boys teams: Nate Brillington had 21 points and Jerry Hansen 18 as No. 15 Granite Bay defeated Nevada Union 85-54 [...]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The game, Nick Saban insisted rather testily the day before, was never about him. Said it wouldn’t define him as a person or as a coach, no matter what happened on the field. Sure felt a lot like it Monday night. Two national titles in three years? Saban can check that [...]

CHILHOWIE, Va. – Conner Hayden was tired. Bushed. On the brink of exhaustion. But even after playing every minute of an intense non-district boys basketball game against a big rival, the Chilhowie High School senior still had enough energy to manage a smile. “Probably the most exciting game of my high school career, by far,” [...]