Football
The Grambling State football program is in disarray. A player protest led to the winless Tigers’ Southwestern Athletic Conference game at Jackson State Saturday being canceled and possibly jeopardizing the remainder of the season. The Grambling players are upset with the school’s athletic facilities, travel arrangements for some games and Coach Doug Williams being fired […]
Southern University ended three years of frustration against Arkansas-Pine Bluff and continued its march toward the SWAC West Division championship with a 29-21 road victory against the Golden Lions. Southern (4-3, 4-1 SWAC) had lost three consecutive times to the defending SWAC champions, who are winless in seven games this season. The Jaguars, last in […]
Alabama State relied on a pair of backup while defeating Prairie View A&M 48-42 in a SWAC overtime shootout in Montgomery, Ala., Saturday. The Hornets (5-2, 5-1 SWAC) and Panthers (4-3, 3-2 SWAC), the top two offensive teams in the SWAC, lived up to their credentials. They combined to gain more than 1,300 yards total […]
South Carolina State knocked North Carolina A&T from the unbeaten ranks Saturday with a 29-24 MEAC victory in the Atlanta Football Classic. The Bulldogs (3-2, 2-0) used an efficient offense to hand the Aggies (3-1, 1-1) their first loss. Quarterback Richard Cue, voted his team’s MVP, threw for 236 yards and two touchdowns while completing […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Why was this game played? Dig through the $900,000 payout and the 50-point spread and the band that didn’t come and the structure that leads small schools to sell themselves to big schools, and maybe Ohio State’s 76-0 win over Florida A&M on Saturday was for Kato Mitchell. “It was one of […]
Alabama State is breathing easier now that the Hornets have their first victory at their $62 million stadium, 52-21 SWAC win against Grambling State. The Hornets (2-2, 2-1 SWAC) opened New ASU Stadium with a 27-25 Turkey Day Classic loss to arch-rival Tuskegee in the 2012 season finale, and they opened the 2013 season with […]
Bethune-Cookman is No. 1 with a bullet after defeating Florida International 34-13 Saturday in Miami. The victory for the Wildcats, the top-ranked team in the black college polls, was their first ever against a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) opponent. It was also the first victory for a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team against an FBS […]
Jackson State, the defending SWAC Eastern Division champion, made it known Saturday that it has no intention of abducting the throne as the Tigers defeated preseason division favorite Alabama State 30-23 in the W. C. Gorden Classic at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Miss. Jackson State unleashed a devastating running game that wore down […]
History wasn’t on Prairie View A&M’s side Saturday night when the Panthers played Stephen F. Austin in Nagadoches, Texas, where they had never won in six previous tries. This time around, however, the Panthers made history, posting a wild 56-48 non-conference victory. The win was the first for the SWAC this season against a non-conference […]
Key Games Florida A&M 27, Miss. Valley State 10 – The Earl Holmes era opened on a victorious note Sunday as the Rattlers defeated the Delta Devils in the 9th annual MEAC-SWAC Challenge at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla. Holmes, a former Florida A&M All-American linebacker who went on to play for the Pittsburgh […]
Winston-Salem State will play for a place in Black College football history this season. The Rams, the 2012 NCAA Division II national runners-up, are the two-time defending CIAA and Black College National Champions. Should they three-peat as national champs, they will join Central State as the only schools to win three straight national crowns. The […]
Michael Vick took a significant pay cut to stay with the Philadelphia Eagles and compete for a starting job. (AP) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michael Vick took a significant pay cut to stay with the Philadelphia Eagles and compete for a starting job. The four-time Pro Bowl quarterback agreed Monday to a restructured three-year contract […]
