AAMU’s Pointer named Bowler of the Year; Veney named top Freshman
BOSSIER CITY, LA – Alabama A&M’s Addileen Pointer and Cynthia Veney earned top honors as the 2010 SWAC All-Conference Bowling teams were announced. Pointer was named SWAC Bowler of the Year, and Veney named Freshman of the Year.
Pointer posted a 191.9 average in 28 games [...]
BOSSIER CITY, LA – Top seed Alabama A&M will face #4 seed Prairie View A&M in the Championship match of the 2010 SWAC Bowling Championship at Holiday Lanes.
The championship match will be played at 1 p.m. Sunday and will air tape-delay on ESPNU Friday, March 12 at 6:30 p.m. CT. One-loss Prairie View A&M [...]
FRISCO, Texas – Frisco is the new host city for the 2010 NCAA Division I Football Championship game, which will played at Pizza Hut Park on January 7, 2011. The NCAA announced earlier today that the 23,500-seat multi-purpose stadium will be the host site for the championship game for the next three years.
“Touchdown! We can’t [...]
SHREVEPORT, La. – The Grambling State University Tigers will take on the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs in the first ever meeting on the gridiron between the two teams in the 2010 Port City Classic on Saturday, Sept. 4th, 6 p.m., at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, La. The two teams announced the game in a joint press [...]
Grambling, LA — The Grambling State and Louisiana Tech Department of Athletics in conjunction with the Shreveport mayor’s office will hold a press conference Tuesday February 23rd to announce the first ever meeting of the two universities on the gridiron.
The press conference set for an 11:00 am start will be held at Independence Stadium in [...]
The Tennessee State University Tigers have inked twenty football signees in the first hours (as of 12 noon) of National Signing day.
Coach Rod Reed’s first recruiting class include eleven defensive players and nine offensive players. Eight players hail from the state of Tennessee, six players from Florida, three players from Georgia, two from Alabama and [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – A total of 20 student-athletes have signed national letters of intent to play football for the 2009 SWAC Football Champion Prairie View A&M University on Wednesday.
Seven states were represented in the 2010 football signing class with the team’s home state of Texas leading the way with 11 signees while California, Illinois [...]
Houston, TX- The Texas Southern Tigers football team finished the 2009 with the second best record for the school this decade. The Tigers finished the season 6-5 overall and 5-2 in conference…both records were only matched by the TSU’s 2000 season.
Nearly all of the 2009 team will return in 2010, which means competition will [...]
Houston, TX – The Texas Southern Tigers Football team had their second best season of the decade in 2009 (6-5 overall / 5-2 Conference), and it’s only the beginning.
The Fighting Tigers are already gearing up the 2010 season and they want you to get in on the excitement. “The success of our program centers on [...]
Nashville, Tenn. – Tennessee State University men’s basketball head coach John Cooper announced the dismissal of juniors Josh Sain, Erick Peguero, Darius Cox and Hamilton Nash due to violations of team policy.
“We have put in place team rules and policies that we feel will establish and strengthen our program,” said Head Coach John Cooper. “Repeated [...]
The Tennessee State University football team will return to the Circle City Classic at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN for the 2010 season. TSU will be matched against Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) foe North Carolina A&T University. The Aggies will replace Southern University on the Tigers 2010 schedule. TSU’s last appearance in the Circle [...]
Former Grambling head coach Melvin Spears is now the offensive coordinator at Alabama State. Speculation of the news began earlier this week, but the (Baton Rouge) Advocate reported Spears confirmed the news on Saturday.
“I kind of backed into it,” Spears said. “Coach (Reggie) Barlow wanted to shuffle his staff and wanted to have [...]
Brad Young of Buster Sports is reporting that East Carolina University has contacted Grambling Athletic Director J. Lin Dawson to request permission to interview Rod Broadway for its head football coach position. The position became vacant when Skip Holtz left to become the head coach at the University of South Florida.
This is not the first [...]
(Pittsburgh, PA – January 14, 2010) –American Urban Radio Networks is proud to announce the 2009 SBN Sports Black College All-American (BCAA) Team. The 25 member team is comprised of student-athletes from the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and they will be honored during the 36th Annual BCAA Awards Weekend February 12-14, 2010, at [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Thousands of Panther fans are expected to fill the historic Blackshear Stadium on Tuesday, Jan. 19 to celebrate Prairie View A&M University’s first SWAC football title in 45 years. Beginning at 12:30 p.m., the University marching band and cheerleaders will escort players and coaching staff through campus to Blackshear Stadium where [...]
The Mississippi Valley State Department of Athletics announces that University of North Alabama defensive coordinator Karl Morgan has been named the head football coach at Mississippi Valley State University. Morgan takes over the program from Willie Totten, who spent eight seasons at the helm and stepped down November 30.
“After an open search with candidates [...]
It’s official. The powers that be at Mississippi Valley State will announce their new head coach to the public tomorrow at 2 p.m. The announcement comes one week after the school announced the finalist for the head coach position.
The five finalists are former NFL receiver and Savannah (Ga.) High School coach Charlie Brown; [...]
The Mississippi Valley State Department of Athletics in conjunction with the University’s Search Committee announces the four finalists for the position of head football coach at MVSU. The four candidates will be on campus this week for in-person interviews as well as meetings with athletic and university administration.
The four finalists are former NFL receiver [...]
Baton Rouge, LA — Southern University and A&M College has offered its head football coaching position to Lyvonia “Stump” Mitchell, the Assistant Head Coach/Running Backs coach for the NFL’s Washington Redskins.
All of the terms of his contract are yet to be worked out, as the Washington Redskins still have one regular season game remaining, and [...]
11 others earn Honorable Mention honors
SWAC Coach of the Year Henry Frazier and SWAC Defensive Player of the Year DE Christian Anthony are among 16 Conference representatives on the College Sporting News 2009 FCS Fabulous Fifty All-American Team.
Frazier, head coach of the 2009 SWAC Football Champion Prairie View A&M Panthers, was named Coach of the [...]
Grambling State DE Christian Anthony and Univ. Arkansas-Pine Bluff KR Mareo Howard highlight the list of six SWAC players named to the Sports Network FCS All-America football team.
Anthony and Howard each earned first-team All-America. Anthony’s GSU teammate, PR Kiare Thompson, earned second-team All-America. WR Juamorris Stewart and FS Jason House of Southern, and SS Anthony [...]
