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Maybe its a little presumptuous to ask about the Chowan University athletic profile this early into their CIAA affiliation. After all, the Hawks struggled to two wins in football, and just recently captured their first conference win in men’s basketball.
But what would be easy to mock ...
NCAA Football
The SIAC has announced its 2009 preseason all-conference basketball honors, and once again, Claflin and Benedict are the favorites in the conference.
Also interesting to note is the apparent parity of the conference as evaluated by its coaches. Eight teams are represented on the ...
Other
Reggie Barlow knows that his time as Alabama State head football coach are numbered. And with a terrible economy putting the squeeze on six-figure jobs throughout the country, why not pine for another gig before the ax drops?
“After talking with them, they told me that none of that ...
NCAA Football
Alabama State Hornets
What was supposed to be a competitive game between a surging Wildcat squad and an injury-riddle Rattler unit soon turned into little more than padded distortion for the Marching 100 and the Marching Wildcats’ halftime show. By the time Bethune-Cookman looked around, the Florida A&M ...
NCAA Football
Florida Gators
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats
Florida A&M Rattlers
Why continually hit refresh on a message board, when you can experience real time trash talk for the Florida Classic? Right here at 2:30 p.m. today – it’s the live blog for the biggest black college football classic in the country, which you can watch live on ESPN360.com.
I would ...
NCAA Football
Florida Gators
Florida A&M Rattlers
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats
Courtesy of the Mid Majority , (which is required reading if you love college basketball) here’s Howard Bison head coach Gil Jackson in his white tee at the Glenn Wilkes Classic in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Technorati Tags: Gil Jackson , Glenn Wilkes Classic , Howard University
NCAA Basketball
Gil Jackson
Howard Bison
You’ve got to believe that the resignations of head football coaches James Webster and Kermit Blount have more to do with executive influence than success on the football field.
Webster, the Tennessee State head coach who had been rumored to be out as far back as two weeks , was ...
NCAA Football
James Brown
Tennessee State Tigers
Winston-Salem State Rams
Ranked seventh in the nation, seems like the biggest post-season aspirations for South Carolina State have proven smaller than the Bulldogs’ talent and national appeal. But there’s one aspect of their tournament future that very few people considered.
How big of a commitment ...
NCAA Football
South Carolina State Bulldogs
Around this time last season, would you have guessed that the Alcorn State Braves would be in position to advance to the 2009 SWAC football championship? Entire coaching staffs being fired on Thanksgiving Day without the head coach’s knowledge, lawsuits, rehirings, and more firing.
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NCAA Football
Alcorn State Braves
It took long enough, but the CIAA and SIAC have announced that Tuskegee University and Elizabeth City State University will meet in the 2009 Pioneer Bowl on December 5 at the Charlie W. Johnson Stadium in Columbia, SC at 2:00 p.m.
The Pioneer Bowl was canceled in 2008, with both conferences ...
NCAA Basketball
Wesley Johnson
Alabama Crimson Tide
North Carolina Tar Heels
The headline on this story is that the three campuses would merge and operate under the Jackson State name and administrative oversight . Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour says that the potential merger will allow the campuses to remain open while helping to stave off a $300 million budget ...
NCAA Football
Jackson State Tigers
Alcorn State Braves
Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils
Ole Miss Rebels
Courtesy of the Buddy Pough Show, we find the head coach of the MEAC champion South Carolina State Bulldogs confessing his rooting interests in Florida A&M to make the FCS Playoffs. Rattler love at the 1:10 mark.
It would’ve been nice for two MEAC teams to jump ...
NCAA Football
South Carolina State Bulldogs
Florida A&M Rattlers
Jackson State head football coach Rick Comegy has been through a lot this year, and most of it has been well-documented here and elsewhere. So you can understand his confusion in his post-game remarks on the Tigers’ 13-5 loss to the Alabama A&M Bulldogs.
“I clearly thought ...
NCAA Football
Jackson State Tigers
The statement was as ominous as it was surprising. During the MEAC/SWAC Challenge conference call , MEAC commissioner Dennis Thomas gleefully hinted about the possibility of taking the Challenge postseason, along with other possibilities of football classic participation with the SWAC.
At the ...
NCAA Football
It’s universally known that Coppin State head men’s basketball coach Fang Mitchell is a maniac when it comes to out-of-conference scheduling . Wherever there’s a willing buyer, he’s selling his Eagles out for the cash; no matter how far the destination or how overmatched ...
NCAA Basketball
Coppin State Eagles
Ron "Fang" Mitchell
For a while, it was beginning to look like Bethune-Cookman would lose every last one of its games. A home defeat to Division II Shaw, a lack of offensive firepower and many questions from Wildcat Nation swirled around head coach Alvin Wyatt and his team.
But guess who’s back in the ...
NCAA Football
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats
Prairie View or North Carolina A&T, I would’ve expected. But the FAMU Lady Rattlers taking the 2009 WNIT champs to overtime and beating them on the road ? Beyond impressive.
I guess this is to be expected from a team that was a poor first-half removed from the MEAC basketball title ...
NCAA Football
South Florida Bulls
Florida A&M Rattlers
North Carolina Tar Heels
Morgan State Bears
You can check out last week’s poll here , and as usual, you can check my rankings out against those of the Sheridan Broadcast Network and the Heritage Sports Radio Network .
Division I
1. South Carolina State – (9-1, 7-0) The Bulldogs repeat as football champions of the Mid-Eastern ...
NCAA Football
You saw it coming from three years ago; Prairie View A&M is the champion of the of the SWAC Western Division and headed to its first SWAC championship game.
Saturday’s win added to the amazing turnaround, who were 1-10 and the worst team in the SWAC a season before coach Henry Frazier ...
