Football, HBCU Sports, NFL

NEW YORK (AP) — Among the Patriots’ rewards for winning the Super Bowl is hosting the season opener. The opposition this year is another team with championship pedigree: the Pittsburgh Steelers. New England and Pittsburgh will begin the NFL season on Thursday night, Sept. 10 with a game matching quarterbacks with six Super Bowl rings […]

Football, HBCU Sports, NFL

WASHINGTON (AP) — Move over, RG3. It’s Colt vs. the Colts. The Washington football team plans to start Colt McCoy over Robert Griffin III on Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts, according to a person familiar with the decision, the latest development in a stunning slide for the 2012 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year. The […]

HBCU Sports, NFL

There are some good stories that have come out of the NFL this year. There’s Devon Still and his team, the Cincinnati Bengals, supporting his cancer-stricken daughter and cancer research and there’s Super Bowl champion Richard Sherman. Wrong man, you’re thinking? He’s a thug and a loudmouth?! Try a hard working, educated black man instead. There’s […]

Entertainment, Entertainment News, If You Missed It

The real husbands are a man down now that Nick Cannon is not with Mariah Carey, but if you missed it, the Season 2 reunion show of the Real Husbands of Hollywood airs this weekend. Season 3 of the BET show is back in October. On Iyanla, Fix My Life, Jay Williams and his 34 kids are […]

Football, HBCU Sports, NFL

One day after asking the NFL’s first openly-gay draft pick about his showering habits in the locker room, ESPN has issued an apology. “ESPN regrets the manner in which we presented our report,” the network said in a statement on Wednesday morning regarding St. Louis Rams player Michael Sam. “Clearly on Tuesday we collectively failed to […]

HBCU Sports, Newsletter

Miami police say that San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is NOT under investigation, only that  a “suspicious incident” was reported earlier this month at a Miami hotel. Police cautioned that any investigation is in its early stages and that no charges have been filed. Kaepernick took to his official Twitter account to say that the […]

Seattle Seahawks player and Super Bowl champion Richard Sherman has had his fair share of controversy in the league. Despite a Stanford degree, his upbringing in L.A.’s mean streets meant some labeled him a thug even before his now famous post-game playoff outburst. But he wants the world to know new Washington Washington Football Team […]

HBCU Sports, NFL

Long Beach-born rapper Warren G is calling out the Philadelphia Eagles. The “Regulate” rapper fired back at the Eagles for accusing DeSean Jackson of gang connections. He claims the Eagles are using this as an excuse to cheat Jackson out of a lot of money. Although Jackson gave career best stats last year, the Eagles saved $10 million […]

HBCU Sports, NFL

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was indicted by a grand jury Thursday on third-degree aggravated assault for allegedly striking his fiancée unconscious last month. Watch the surveillance video above of Rice dragging his fiancee out of an elevator.  The athlete was arrested and charged with simple assault-domestic violence on Feb. 15 after a physical […]

Celebrity couples look great in front of the cameras, wearing the latest designer clothes and traveling to exotic locations. Well, maybe that’s just Jay-Z and Beyonce. For Coach Tony Dungy and his wife of 31 years, Lauren Dungy, things are quite different. He’s played for and coached a total of seven NFL teams. An NFL […]

National News, News, Russ Parr Show Trending

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Seattle Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch made an early exit at Super Bowl media day, then returned to Tuesday’s session just in time to possibly avoid a hefty fine from the NFL. The running back, wearing a hood and dark sunglasses, abruptly left the required session at the Prudential Center, walking out […]

Entertainment

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s one thing for a business dispute to knock out CBS programming in some three million homes during rerun season. Football season is another matter entirely, and there’s little immediate cause for optimism. There’s been no reported progress in negotiations between CBS Corp. and Time Warner, which has blocked CBS programming […]