About Us

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Maria Taylor is in her seventh season as a host analyst & reporter.  In 2017, Taylor became the first black female to co-host College Game Day Built by The Home Depot. Taylor was also tabbed as the sideline reporter for ABC Saturday Night Football and patrolled the sidelines for the 2018 College Football Playoff and National Championship Game. Maria Taylor was named host of NBA Countdown, ESPN and ABC’s longstanding NBA pregame show, in October 2019. She will also have a significant role hosting NBA Playoffs editions of NBA Countdown across ESPN networks.
 

In 2015, Maria Co-Founded a non-profit organization called The Winning Edge Leadership Academy. The mission of the Winning Edge is to educate, foster professional mentoring relationships, provide networking opportunities and enrichment scholarships to ethnic minorities and women who are seeking careers in the sports industry. Since 2015, the academy has helped 16 students work towards job or internship placement and provided mentoring and funding for professional enrichment trips.

Michael Vick announced his retirement in early 2017 from the NFL after thirteen seasons electrifying fans and transforming the quarterback position. The former overall number one pick in the 2001 NFL Draft, to the Atlanta Falcons, made four Pro Bowl appearances over his professional football career. He holds the record for the most career rushing yards by a quarterback (6,109) and the most rushing yards by a quarterback in a season (1,039). The former Virginia Tech quarterback standout on the field career accomplishments include the NFL Comeback Player of the Year (2010), recipient of the Archie Griffin Award (1999), Big East Offensive Player of the Year (1999) and Big East Rookie of the Year (1999). He was inducted into the 2017 Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame. 

Michael Vick has now turned his sights to the next chapter guiding young athletes and as a sports broadcaster. Vick joined FOX Sports as co-host of the FOX NFL Kickoff Show and as an in-studio NFL Analyst for other FS1 sports programming.  

Dr. Cwanza Pinckney M.D., is a nationally recognized board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician, concierge physician, speaker, and coach. 

Her best-selling debut book, Music and Medicine Volume 1: Music Stories and Medical Mysteries; explores the lives, stories, mysteries, and medicine surrounding the illnesses, diseases, addictions, and deaths of some of the world’s most famous music and hip-hop artists of all time. 

In February 2018, Dr. Cwanza was recognized as one of the Top 50 Black Professionals and Entrepreneurs of Texas. 

Kenny Selmon is the USA National Men's 400M Hurdle Champion who is ranked #1 in the US and #5 in the world.   

Selmon, a 2020 Olympic hopeful, won Gold at the Athletics World Cup in London representing the USA this past summer. 

Among Kenny’s many accomplishments include being a 3X ACC Champion, 10X All-ACC and the UNC Tarheels record holder and the recipient of the Patterson Medal from the University of North Carolina.

Chasity Melvin is one of the reigning pioneers in women sports history as WNBA All Star, ACC Legend and North Carolina State University Hall of Famer. Throughout her 14-year professional basketball career, Chasity has overcome highs and lows with style, grace, beauty, and faith. Not only is she known for her stellar basketball career, her success also extends to endeavors outside of the sport. Chasity is a sports radio show host, emcee, speaker, coach, and philanthropist. Her athletic experience combined with her engaging personality with off-court activities makes her one of a kind. 

Chasity was recently named Assistant Coach for the Phoenix Mercury WNBA team where she will continue to use her experience to empower and coach the next generation of women in basketball. 

Natasha M. Scruggs Esq., founded The Scruggs Firm, LLC, in 2018. She has a passion for fighting for the human rights of her clients. She believes that each person should be provided excellent legal representation at affordable prices. She understands the gravity of the mass incarceration crisis in Missouri and the United States. As a prison abolitionist, she approaches each criminal case considering the factors facilitating this system. She uses a similar holistic approach when fighting for the rights of her personal injury and estate planning clients. Natasha has built her practice one client at a time. She currently has two locations and is still growing. She aims to be the voice of the silent and the strength of the weak.

Natasha is currently writing a book discussing prison abolition and the disparate treatment of Black people in the justice system.

 The Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC) is a groundbreaking organization that exists to create and foster an environment for female athletes to sustain healthy lifestyles through playing, coaching and participating in American Football at the highest level. As a premier professional women's tackle football league, WNFC plays 11-on-11 full padded American tackle football. Sponsored by adidas and Riddell Sports, the WNFC has over 1,000 athletes and coaches across 17 states which makes up 20 teams with thousands of fans. The WNFC was started in 2019 in order to bring the sport of women's tackle football to the masses.