Fort Valley State completed an improbable turnaround Saturday with a 33-30 double overtime victory against Kentucky State in the SIAC Championship Game at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Ala. The Wildcats (5-6) began the season 1-6 under first-year coach Kevin Porter and going nowhere fast a month ago before reeling off four consecutive wins. Their culmination […]
Tuskegee kept its Division II playoff hopes alive with a stirring 13-10 come-from-behind victory against SIAC rival Miles Saturday at Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala. The Golden Tigers (8-1, 6-1 SIAC) never led until Branden Wilson plunged into the end zone from the two-yard line for the winning score with 1:15 remaining in the game. […]
Kentucky State has experienced nothing but frustration against Tuskegee since the Thorobreds joined the SIAC in 1997. That changed Saturday, however, as they handed the nationally ranked Golden Tigers their first loss of the season, a 10-9 Homecoming defeat. The Thorobreds (4-4, 3-0 SIAC West) emerged with the win when junior defensive lineman Rodriguez Jones […]
Senior running back Tarik Cohen topped the 200-yard rushing mark for the third consecutive game North Carolina A&T pulled away in the fourth quarter for a come from behind MEAC 52-35 road victory against Bethune-Cookman. Cohen, the MEAC’s career rushing leader, ran for 220 yards and three touchdowns on 25 carries as North Carolina A&T […]
Tuskegee has had some improbable wins among its 673 all-time victories, but it hard to imagine any being more improbable than the Golden Tigers’ 21-16 home triumph over UNC-Pembroke Saturday at Abbott Stadium. Trailing 16-0 with a little more than nine minutes remaining in the contest, the Golden Tigers (5-0), ranked No. 11 in NCAA […]
Savannah State, an MEAC doormat ever since joining the conference in 2011, stunned Bethune-Cookman, a perennial contender for the league championship, with a 16-10 overtime victory in first-year coach Erik Raeburn’s home debut. Savannah State (1-2, 1-0 MEAC) put the game away on the strength of its defense. Bethune-Cookman got the ball first in overtime. […]
NOTE: We start coverage of Black College football this year with the season already in progress. MOBILE, Ala. – Tuskegee and Florida A&M, two of the most storied programs in Black College football, renewed their rivalry which began in 1908, last Saturday at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in the inaugural Fifth Quarter Classic. It was their first […]
Basketball-crazed North Carolina has lost its next chance to host NCAA men’s basketball tournament games along with several other championship events due to a state law that some say can lead to discrimination against LGBT people. And the fallout may not be over. After the NCAA announced it is pulling seven championship events from North […]
Linebacker Osa Masina was suspended by the school on Tuesday amid two separate sexual assault investigations stemming from incidents that occurred in California and Utah.
Laremy Tunsil tumbled down the NFL draft board Thursday night after a bizarre video of him was posted on his Twitter account minutes before the start of the proceedings, potentially costing the offensive lineman millions of dollars. The approximately 30-second video, which showed him smoking from a mask equipped with a bong, was posted to […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Dwayne “Pearl” Washington, who went from New York City playground wonder to Big East star for Jim Boeheim at Syracuse, has died. He was 52. Washington died Wednesday of cancer, the university said. He had been coping with medical problems since a brain tumor was first diagnosed in 1995 and recently […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A former Syracuse University football player has pleaded not guilty to stabbing two current Orange players with a pocket knife. City Court Judge Ross Andrews entered the plea for Naesean Howard on Monday because Howard didn’t have an assigned lawyer. Howard is accused of repeatedly stabbing Chauncey Scissum and Corey Winfield, […]
