For both the Wakefield Warriors in high school and the Virginia Wesleyan Marlins in college, Khory Moore was a highly accomplished and high-scoring basketball player who helped his teams find significant success.
Recently, the Arlington native from the Green Valley neighborhood was honored for his Division III college achievements by being inducted into the Virginia Wesleyan Athletic Hall of Fame. (The college was renamed Batten University in July.)
An Arlington man has been arrested after a dispute at the Gunston Middle School basketball court erupted into gunfire last month.
Adrian Dwight Taylor, 51, has been charged with nine counts of attempted malicious wounding and several other felonies in connection with the incident, which took place around 10 p.m. on July 25.
It’s nearly impossible to miss seeing UConn star Azzi Fudd when tuning in for March Madness, as she’s all over TV commercials and social media.
“Really fortunate to have done some really amazing and fun deals and have some great partnerships,” Fudd said in a Zoom interview with The Associated Press. “I’m super excited to see everything just start to roll out. It’s going to be crazy to see everything I’ve done. I feel like a lot of things are being posted now.”
Much had changed in four years, yet Brian Weiser found himself in a very similar situation during a recent men’s college basketball game.
The former Washington-Liberty Generals high-school standout is now a 6-foot-3 backup junior guard/forward and defensive specialist for the Division III Christopher Newport University Captains.
With just days to go until the first round of March Madness, numerous sports bars across Arlington and Falls Church are ready with drinks and bites for sports fans of all stripes.
As establishments offer deals ranging from beers and seltzers to appetizers and wings, here are some local spots to try out while watching this month’s games.
Eleanor Mahshie and Eve Yungman are normally rivals on the basketball court. But they capped their standout high-school basketball careers by being teammates on the same squad in a season-ending all-star game.
The Arlington residents and seniors were members of the 6D North Region girls squad in the long-running annual Northern Virginia Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s (NVWBCA) Suburban Classic All-Star Games. The two contests — for seniors only — played March 15 at Oakton High School.
The finish to the 2025-26 boys basketball campaign was very familiar to the Bishop O’Connell Knights.
Like a year ago, the high-school team enjoyed lofty rankings in various polls, compiled the same overall 23-10 record and defeated scads of top teams while playing a very difficult schedule.
The high-school basketball season ended abruptly for the final three Arlington public varsity teams still alive in postseason action with first-round losses in the 6D North Region tournaments.
In girls action, the Washington-Liberty Generals and Yorktown Patriots were defeated. On the boys side, Yorktown lost, as well:
The Marshall Statesmen proved to be kryptonite for the Yorktown Patriots boys basketball squad this season.
If not for Marshall, Yorktown would have gone undefeated in the Liberty District regular-season play, then might have won the league’s postseason high-school tournament, as well.
The Washington-Liberty Generals were hoping otherwise, but the result in this season’s Liberty District girls basketball tournament championship game was déjà vu all over again.
For the second straight year, and again on the Langley Saxons’ home court, the second-seeded Generals (20-5) fell short — losing 48-37 in the high-school contest.
Highlighted by a couple of rivalry games, the regular season ended the night of Friday the 13th for Arlington’s public high school varsity basketball teams.
Next up for those six girls and boys squads are this week’s Liberty District tournaments, beginning with quarterfinal action the night of Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Just like the first time they met this season, the Yorktown Patriots girls team came away on the losing end of a low-scoring basketball game to the Langley Saxons.
First-place Langley rallied in the second half, as it had a few weeks earlier, to defeat host Yorktown, 38-30, in the low-scoring Feb. 10 Liberty District showdown.
