AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two University of Texas football players were arrested and charged Thursday with felony sexual assault after a female student said she was raped in a campus dorm room last month. Wide receivers Kendall Sanders and Montrel Meander were later released on personal recognizance bonds. According to an arrest affidavit, Sanders and […]
Looks like there is a new football classic for HBCU fans! Alabama State University and Houston’s Texas Southern University will team up for the inaugural game of the Prince Hall Masons Americanism Football Classic. The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Alabama and ASU announced their excitement around the two-year deal in a press conference. The two […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA has announced a $20 million settlement with former players over college- themed basketball and football video games produced by Electronic Arts. The NCAA said Monday that the agreement will provide money to plaintiffs headed by former Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller. The case was scheduled for trial in March 2015. […]
A $40 million settlement has been completed that will pay college football and basketball players dating to 2003 for the use of their likenesses in NCAA-branded videogames. The payouts could go to more than 100,000 athletes, including some current players, who were either on college rosters or had their images used in videogames made by […]
Despite winning a national championship and a Heisman Trophy in his freshman season at Florida State University, Jameis Winston has found himself in the public eye for all the the wrong reasons. So much so that his father, Antonor Winston, is working with the university on ways to best manage the attention Jameis has received. The star […]
Tennessee State University, known as The Big Blue to its fans, won its 12th Black College Football National Championship in the 2013 season. They can now celebrate for another reason – the school was the only HBCU to have its athletes selected in this year’s NFL Draft. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers chose four-year starting guard […]
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern University’s football players will cast ballots Friday on whether to form the nation’s first union for college athletes — a potentially landmark vote that will be kept sealed for months and possibly years. The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday it will hear an appeal by Northwestern challenging the decision […]
University of New Mexico running back Crusoe Gongbay has been arrested on suspicion of rape in Albuquerque . Officials in Albuquerque say a woman contacted authorities around 3AM on April 13th claiming she had been raped by the 20 year old football star. She also claims two other men may have also been involved. Investigators say the […]
Oklahoma University football star Frank Shannon has told police he didn’t rape a sorority girl at his apartment back in January. TMZ reports: The leading tackler on the Sooners claims she was the initiator and even removed her own clothes. But Shannon claims things came to a grinding halt when he asked her if she was on her period. She allegedly […]
Roland Martin goes one on one with Hall of Famer, Deion Sanders and dishes on all things football, including the controversial firing of Desean Jackson and Johnny Football’s ‘ghetto tendencies’. Get ready to laugh out loud! “He was on my team at the Pro Bowl and he’s a good kid. Now, does he come with luggage? Yes. He’s […]
A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that Northwestern football players could unionize. Does that mean some players will be able to organize and get better health care and academic support? Or does it spell the end of college sports as we know it? The AP takes a look at all […]
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — After a regular season filled with blowout victories and easy fourth quarters, Jameis Winston and Florida State showed they could close like champions, too. No. 2 Auburn wobbled the top-ranked Seminoles by jumping out to an 18-point lead in the first half, and then put Florida State on the brink of […]
