On this special episode of “Listen In With KNN” on Fox Sports 1340AM/96.9 FM, host Kelsey Nicole Nelson welcomed rising young basketball star, Amari Bailey. Amari Bailey grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Before reaching high school, Bailey appeared on the hit show Bringing Up Ballers, a show about five Chicago-area entrepreneurs whose children are some […]
On the 187th episode of “Listen In With KNN” on Fox Sports 1340AM/96.9 FM, host Kelsey Nicole Nelson welcomed in a trailblazer in high school football Krysten Muir. Muir was the first female to score a point in an AIA state championship game. Muir grew up playing sports. She was a daddy’s […]
On the 163rd episode of Listen In With KNN on Fox Sports 1340AM, host Kelsey Nicole Nelson welcomed Morgan State graduate and published author Devon Ashby to the show. Speaking of his journey, he was born and raised in Montgomery County, Maryland. Ashby attended Seneca Valley High School and was on the football team but […]
On the 157th episode of Listen In With KNN on Fox Sports 1340AM, host Kelsey Nicole Nelson welcomed Kaya Squirewell, Nikita Morris and Taylor Pierce from the Nova Venom Basketball AAU Girls team to the show. Nova Venom is a premier Girls AAU basketball organization located in Northern Virginia. It has a very family oriented […]
Hopewell ( 3-0) owns the first half of games this year outscoring opponents 87-13! Although second halves in the last two games haven’t been as productive (13-25), some of that has involved good halftime adjustments by opponents, some perhaps an understandable loss of intensity with big leads, and some the presence of reserves getting […]
Last year defenses shined when these teams met – first a 13-0 Hopewell win in Portsmouth, then a 14-12 Norcom win in Hopewell that knocked the Blue Devils out of the playoffs in the semi-finals. So when Hopewell, still in the first quarter, was locked into a 19-13 battle with the Greyhounds, people on both […]
Three minutes into the second quarter, Hopewell fans may have been scratching their heads as their team was deadlocked with Tabb 0-0 last Thursday in Yorktown. But they sprung lose for 19 points by halftime on their way to a rather dominating 40-7 win. It was rather dominating as statistics bear out some weak spots […]
Beating a team with a player who was a National Player of the Year finalist, back for her Senior year is hard to do once much less twice. But the Hopewell Girls Basketball team who last year beat William Monroe ( Greene County) in the Quarterfinals of the State Tournament, knocked them off again in […]
In playoff basketball, sometimes high school teams have to play games on back to back nights. Last weekend, a good month before the playoffs arrive, Hopewell experienced back to back games on Friday and Saturday nights, and did so seemingly without a hitch. Already down three players, two to injury and one with a family […]
These teams have played twice in the last five days – and the combined margin of victory: three points! Wednesday’s game may not have ended in overtime, as in the Holiday Classic, but it was another thrilling battle featuring a 14-2 fourth quarter run by the Royals, ( 7-4), almost leading them to another victory […]