Martenzie Johnson

Washington, D.C.

Sports Writer at Andscape

Co-Host at ESPN Radio

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Oregon Ducks’ Deja Kelly chasing hoop and broadcasting dreams

1 month ago | andscape.com | Martenzie Johnson

EUGENE, Ore. — Deja Kelly was anxious. It was Nov. 4 and the fifth-year transfer was about to play in her first game for the Oregon women’s basketball team. Nerves are common in sports, so that wasn’t anything new for Kelly. She had spent the previous four years putting up buckets at North Carolina, one of the most popular brands in all of college basketball, so a non-conference game against a little-known school in California should not have had her that worried. The game was at 4 p.m. Pacific time.
Call it a comeback: NFL running back prospects looking to return position to prominence

1 month ago | andscape.com | Martenzie Johnson

INDIANAPOLIS — Ashton Jeanty was the textbook definition of a running back last season. The former Boise State back ripped off big run after big run last season to the tune of 2,601 yards, just 28 yards shy of the NCAA single-season record. Even still, the 21-year-old knows that in the NFL his skill set hasn’t been as valued as it was over a decade ago. Well, that was until last season.
Jalen Milroe could follow path of Jalen Hurts in NFL

1 month ago | andscape.com | Martenzie Johnson

Star Black quarterbacks are no longer the exception – they’re the rule. Throughout the football season, this series will explore the prominence and impact of Black QBs from the grassroots level to the NFL. INDIANAPOLIS — Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A Texas-born Alabama quarterback who is a stronger runner than passer will likely be drafted outside of the first round of the NFL draft. The quarterback went undefeated in the SEC as a first-year starter.
The 2025 NFL Black quarterback tiers

2 months ago | andscape.com | Martenzie Johnson

Star Black quarterbacks no longer are the exception – they’re the rule. Throughout the football season, this series will explore the prominence and impact of Black QBs from the grassroots level to the NFL. It’s almost as if we told you. In August, Andscape published its Cover Story on Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, his desire for perfection and his uncompromising mentality to obtain it. And what happened six months later?
‘All it takes is one’: How a federal program helped top basketball prospect Acaden Lewis get to Kentucky

2 months ago | andscape.com | Martenzie Johnson

On Wednesday, Acaden Lewis, one of the top high school basketball prospects in the nation, will speak on Capitol Hill about how a federal program helped him rise from an underserved Washington, D.C. community to Division I college basketball.
Ravens list WR Zay Flowers (knee) as doubtful vs. Bills

Jan 17, 2025 | espn.co.uk | Jamison Hensley |Martenzie Johnson

OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- The Baltimore Ravens did not rule out Zay Flowers for Sunday's divisional playoff game at the Buffalo Bills, listing him as doubtful even though the Pro Bowl wide receiver did not practice all week. "I think he'll have a chance," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said after Friday's practice. Flowers hasn't practiced since injuring his right knee during Baltimore's regular-season finale on Jan. 4 against the Cleveland Browns.
Lamar Jackson is no longer just a running quarterback

Jan 17, 2025 | andscape.com | Martenzie Johnson

It’s been run into the ground at this point, but it bears repeating again. Ahead of the 2018 NFL draft, Bill Polian, a retired Super Bowl-winning, Hall-of-Fame team-builder, said that Lamar Jackson should change from quarterback to receiver. It didn’t matter that Jackson accounted for over 10,300 total yards and 96 total touchdowns in his final two seasons at Louisville, winning the 2016 Heisman Trophy along the way.
Miami Heat bring back ‘Vice’ jerseys after nearly five-year absence

Jan 16, 2025 | andscape.com | Martenzie Johnson

Someone alert Tubbs and Crockett. The Miami Heat announced on Thursday that it is bringing back its popular “Vice” jerseys after a nearly five-year hiatus. The uniforms, inspired by the 1980s Miami Vice television series and the Heat’s former arena, ran from 2018 to 2021. They will return for the team’s Jan. 17 matchup with the Denver Nuggets and replace Miami’s standard white Association jerseys for the rest of the season.
Sons of Dennis Rodman, Penny Hardaway chart own paths in NBA G League

Nov 21, 2024 | andscape.com | Martenzie Johnson

WASHINGTON — When Jayden Hardaway and DJ Rodman walk into the pressroom inside the Washington Wizards’ practice arena, there are both subtle and obvious indicators that they are the sons of ’90s NBA greats Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway and Dennis Rodman. Aside from much longer hair, Jayden Hardaway is a spitting image of his dad.
Michael Vick voted for first time in 2020. He’s now encouraging others to get involved.

Nov 4, 2024 | andscape.com | Martenzie Johnson

Growing up in Newport News, Virginia, in the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Vick didn’t have much of an understanding of elections and voter rights. Through his parents, Vick understood the magnitude of selecting leaders in this country, particularly the president, but the former NFL quarterback was surrounded by violence and poverty in his hometown (nicknamed “Bad News” because “a lot of bad s— happens there,” fellow native Allen Iverson once said).