Hi there,
Thanks for your question.
The black spacing below the photo is due to the paragraph text being long. There are a couple different solutions for this.
First, you could add the following to SportsPress > Settings > Custom CSS to increase the size of the post slider image:
.widget_tb_post_slider .orbit-container .orbit-slides-container img {
max-width: 20rem;
width: 20rem;
}
Another solution is to change the excerpt length via a child theme. The excerpt length function is in includes/theme-functions.php:
if ( !function_exists( 'tb_excerpt_length' ) ) {
function tb_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 30;
}
}
Changing that number to 20 would make the excerpt shorter and prevent the box from being too tall.
I hope this helps!