A historic Baltimore Catholic League season belatedly began Feb. 17 with St. Frances Academy opening its quest for a fourth straight championship with a 96-78 victory at Archbishop Spalding High School.

Catholics in St. Petersburg, Florida, will need to get their napkins ready because some barbecue from Kansas City, Missouri, is coming their way.

Hank Aaron, who was baseball’s home run king for 33 years, overcame racism to make his mark in the game he loved. Aaron died Jan. 22 at age 86.

After 17 seasons in the NFL, quarterback Philip Rivers will begin his next career as head football coach at St. Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope in the Mobile Archdiocese.

While teachers lead instruction for students in classrooms and at home, interscholastic sports do not translate to Zoom. Coaches and athletes pine over lost seasons; Loovis, Strickland and their peers at 16 other Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore guide them with their attitude and patience.

What makes his contribution to the genre unique is that his autobiography/success story includes 34 references to God, 87 mentions of love, 23 for faith and 71 for family.

Tommy Lasorda, who won two World Series titles during his 21-year managerial reign with the Los Angeles Dodgers and became an ambassador for baseball in retirement from the sport, died Jan. 7 in Los Angeles at age 93.

While the traditional Thanksgiving Day football game between Calvert Hall College High School and Loyola Blakefield was the highest-profile prep event affected by the coronavirus pandemic, few teams were as hit hard by the formal cancellation of fall athletics as the soccer team from Mount St. Joseph High School.

The Turkey Bowl, one of Baltimore’s most enduring athletic traditions, will not be played this year.

Jalen Smith of Mount St. Joseph High School and Immanuel Quickley of The John Carroll School were selected in the first round of the NBA draft.