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• Black College Basketball Highlights

  
  HBCU Sports Blog — Authority: 137
  Just because black colleges are getting their brains beat in by power conference opponents ( just the men, at least) doesn’t mean that there aren’t good things happening for the hardest working squads in the mid-majors. Here are a few highlights you may have missed this season. The Brilliance of Morgan ...
  10 hours ago

• Southern Interviews Doug Williams For Head Coaching Position

  
  HBCU Sports Blog — Authority: 137
  If the Southern Jaguars were going to get a Grambling man to serve the university in a football capacity, they can find no better man for no larger a capacity. News has broken that Williams, currently director of pro personnel for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has spoken with SU athletic director Greg LaFleur about the ...
  10 hours ago

• Jackson State Adjusts to Life Without Grant Maxey

  
  HBCU Sports Blog — Authority: 137
  It was cruel for Jackson State forward Grant Maxey to lose his senior season to a season-ending ankle injury, but more punishing to the Tiger fan sensibilities is how much the team misses his offense. Maxey was the 2009 preseason Player of the Year, and for good reason. 16 points and six rebounds per put him at or ...
  11 hours ago

• Black College Basketball: In Need of a No-Cupcake Diet?

  
  HBCU Sports Blog — Authority: 137
  A very interesting post from the MEAC/SWAC Mainstreet on black college basketball programs and the non-Division I programs that hinder them . And there’s two ways you can look at the MEAC and SWAC scheduling a vast number of NAIA and Division II and III schools early in the season. One way is the preparation and ...
  1 day ago

• Nominations for the Demmy Awards

  
  SWAC Girl — Authority: 572
  Bob over at The Journey has been inspired by recent Democrat strong-arming of the American public ... and has come up with a new ... ahem ... award. As Bob so eloquently presented it: It is time to remember those spineless public servants in the US Senate. The 2009 Demmys are open for nominations. There are ...
  2 days ago

• Unfinished business: Grambling State Tigers Football

  
  MEAC/SWAC SPORTS MAIN STREET — Authority: 132
  Unfinished business: Grambling didnt live up to own championship expectations By Grambling’s standards, 7-4 isn’t cutting it. After consecutive trips to the SWAC Championship — including a victory to claim the conference crown in 2008 — it’s hard to call the Tigers’ 2009 season anything but a ...
  2 days ago

• A&M Chancellor Supports Prairie View A&M Stadium Efforts

  
  MEAC/SWAC SPORTS MAIN STREET — Authority: 132
  HOUSTON, Texas - The chancellor of the Texas A&M System told FOX 26 Sports Wednesday he is 100 percent behind efforts by school officials at Prairie View A&M to build a new football stadium and athletics facility. It will be the first new stadium and facility on the Prairie View Campus in nearly 50 years. This ...
  4 days ago

• Black Colleges in Final FCS Rankings

  
  HBCU Sports Blog — Authority: 137
  South Carolina State, Prairie View A&M and Florida A&M have finished the year ranked in the Sports Network’s final Top 25 FCS poll . We good with the rankings? Because I think I don’t have a problem with them. Final 2009 Sports Network’s FCS College Football Poll Team (First-place votes) Record ...
  4 days ago

• Christmas with the SWAC bloggers in a Winter Wonderland

  
  SWAC Girl — Authority: 572
  Ive taken a longer-than-I-should break from the kitchen but got caught up in the Democrat porkulus and health care bills. So ... decided while at the computer to check out the SWAC bloggers, those fellow conservatives who hold the line against liberal erosion of our freedoms, and see what they are up to on this ...
  4 days ago

• Plenty of snow while out and about

  
  SWAC Girl — Authority: 572
  Many back roads of Augusta County are still snow-covered. Fishersville ... ... Waynesboros Target shopping center ... ... Stauntons Richmond Road. Highway sign on I-64 east at Waynesboro warns, "Accident 9 miles ahead. Use caution." Traffic was backed up on I-81 southbound Tuesday ...
  6 days ago

• 2009 Black College Football Attendance Numbers

  
  HBCU Sports Blog — Authority: 137
  Courtesy of Onnidan, check out the attendance numbers for the 2009 black college football season. I won’t list them all, but I will point out some interesting highlights from the listing. Of the 27 events listed, the SWAC Championship Game was the lowest attended with just over 20,200 fans. The MEAC/SWAC ...
  6 days ago

• Alcorn State Made the Correct Decision

  
  MEAC/SWAC SPORTS MAIN STREET — Authority: 132
  Collins given three-year extension LORMAN, MS — Alcorn State has extended the contract of head football coach Earnest Collins by three years. The Braves (3-6, 3-4) sat alone in first place in the Eastern Division midway through the season after being picked to finish last. Alcorn couldn’t hold on, but a win ...
  1 week ago

• Why Black College Sports Are Recession-Proof

  
  HBCU Sports Blog — Authority: 137
  Take your pick of economic buzzwords – recession, downturn, financial creativity – and you are sure to find a sacrificial behavior that many people are adopting to deal with the reality of capital corrupting capitally. But we’ve heard the old adage about wanting something bad enough and being willing to spend ...
  1 week ago

• Prairie View’s Frazier first HBCU coach to win Eddie Robinson Award

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 126
  Prairie View A&M coach Henry Frazier III was named the 23rd winner of the Eddie Robinson Award Thursday night at The Sports Network’s Football Championship Subdivision Awards Banquet, held at the Chattanooga Convention Center on the eve of the NCAA Division I Football Championship title game.Frazier is the first ...
  1 week ago

• East beats out West 26 – 21 in HBCU Bowl

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 126
  Florida A&M’s Leroy Vann got the first HBCU Bowl all-star game off to a fast start Saturday.Vann returned a punt 81 yards for a first-quarter touchdown to highlight the East’s 26-21 win over the West.“This was a great opportunity for us to show what we can do and I hope a great experience for the [...]
  1 week ago

• East Beats West in HBCU Bowl

  
  HBCU Sports Blog — Authority: 137
  The MEAC and CIAA proved to be the better black college football tandem, as the pair representing the East defeated the SIAC and SWAC in the first-annual HBCU Bowl 26-21. The game’s MVP, FAMU’s LeRoy Vann returned a punt for a touchdown to create the game’s signature play, but the Joe Taylor-led East team put ...
  1 week ago

• HBCU Senior Bowl: East 26, West 21

  
  MEAC/SWAC SPORTS MAIN STREET — Authority: 132
  Florida A&Ms Vann is the man in HBCU Bowl Children from a youth football team surrounded Florida A&Ms Leroy Vann seeking an autograph from the star of the inaugural HBCU Bowl all-star game. Like he did in Saturdays game at Cramton Bowl, Vann didnt disappoint. Vann returned a punt 81 yards for a ...
  1 week ago

• Jackson State 41, Nebraska 57

  
  MEAC/SWAC SPORTS MAIN STREET — Authority: 132
  Huskers beat winless Jackson State His Huskers won again Saturday night to move to 8-2, but Doc Sadler is far from happy. The Nebraska basketball coach knows his team is three weeks away from a rude awakening, so forgive him if he isn’t able to celebrate a 16-point victory over winless Jackson State. “I ...
  1 week ago

• PVAMUs Henry Frazier III Wins Eddie Robinson Award

  
  MEAC/SWAC SPORTS MAIN STREET — Authority: 132
  Coach Frazier is the first coach of a Southwestern Athletic Conference team, or a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) to win the Robinson Award, which is presented annually to the top coach in the Football Championship Subdivision. CHATTANOOGA, TN -- Prairie View A&M coach Henry Frazier III was ...
  1 week ago

• Snowy wonderland for SWAC bloggers

  
  SWAC Girl — Authority: 572
  Saturday morning at 9:00 ... heavy snowfall continues. Its difficult to measure with drifting snow but it is now about 2 feet deep. A snowy view from the dining room table. Drifting snow is piling against door to deck. What a winter wonderland! As heavy snowfall continues and snow drifts pile ...
  1 week ago

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