Spartan Echo

  NEW YORK (AP) — Tall, trim and wearing catwalk clothes: Pro basketball stars have stepped up their style to become influential tastemakers. On the court, of course, they’re in uniform, with a lot of red and black donned by the Miami Heat, and silver and black on the San Antonio Spurs, during the NBA [...]

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Norfolk State says men’s basketball coach Anthony Evans has resigned, and a person familiar with the situation says he has accepted the same position at Florida International. Florida International says it has hired Anthony Evans as its men’s basketball coach, and will introduce him to the university community at a news conference Tuesday. Evans [...]

After two initial replays, CBS stopped showing footage Sunday of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware breaking his leg during the first half of his team’s NCAA men’s tournament game against Duke. The injury during the nationally televised game, and the shocked reaction of Ware’s fellow players, called to mind the gruesome broken leg suffered by [...]

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Justin Anderson scored 15 points, including four key free throws in the final minutes, and Virginia overcame a sloppy offensive performance to beat Norfolk State 67-56 in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday night, March 19, 2013. Akil Mitchell also had 15 and 11 rebounds for the Cavaliers [...]

  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Adrien Coleman closed regulation with five consecutive points to force overtime and Bethune-Cookman handed top-seeded Norfolk State its first conference loss this season, 70-68, in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinal action Wednesday night, March 13. The eighth-seeded Wildcats (14-19) trailed 63-58 before Coleman converted a three-point play with 1:43 remaining. [...]

    NORFOLK, Va. – The Norfolk State women’s basketball team claimed a 72-55 victory over Florida A&M in the opening round of the 2013 MEAC Tournament at the Norfolk Scope Arena on Tuesday afternoon, March 12. The Spartans improved to 7-21 on the season while FAMU fell to 11-19 overall. NSU improved to 3-0 against [...]

  DOVER, Del. – As has been the case for most of conference play, the Norfolk State men’s basketball team saw a double-digit second-half lead dwindle down to low single digits, or as was the case of Saturday afternoon , Feb. 23, down to zero. Against Delaware State at Memorial Hall in the last road [...]