and he moonlighted as a college basketball referee. At a game in Roanoke in February 1986, he met a Special Olympics Virginia employee in the locker room and casually said: "That’s a great ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - 21 Special Olympics basketball teams will compete at Virginia Tech Sunday, February 16 at 9 a.m. for a chance to advance to the state championships. The tournament ...

Jimmy McKay knew it would be fun to volunteer at the 20th Annual Northern Virginia Special Olympics Basketball Invitational Tournament on Saturday, April 4, at Marymount University. “But I had ...

Special Olympics West Virginia program announced in Wyoming ... “It means I am ready for the game and stuff, ready to shoot basketball,” said Blankenship. These athletes practiced for eight ...

Meet the top 10 students of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in the Class of 2025 and read about their accomplishments and ...

Steve Prefontaine's bold running style was a fan favorite during the early 1970 before the former University of Oregon runner died in a car accident on May 30, 1975.

Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton scored with 0.3 seconds left to beat the Thunder, 111-110, in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday ...

App State director of track & field/cross country Damion McLean announced the addition of 16 student-athletes to the 2025-26 ...

More than 1200 athletes from across Virginia competed in the Special Olympics Virginia Summer Games this weekend.

Two Westmoreland County teams returned with gold medals from the 2025 Special Olympics Pennsylvania Summer Games in State ...

Nearly 2,000 volunteers made it possible for the athletes to demonstrate their skills in five different sports: bowling, ...

Volunteer dentists provided nearly 200 patients with more than 700 free procedures during a Virginia Special Olympics event ...