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Football: Four All-SWAC Selections Named to 2013 CFPA Watch List

By on May 22, 2013 in Football

Four players from last season’s All-Southwestern Athletic Conference Football Team were named to the College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) 2013 FCS Watch List. Dray Joseph (QB – Southern), Lee Doss (WR – Southern), Ladarius Eckwood (WR – Arkansas-Pine Bluff) and Isaiah Crowell (RB – Alabama State) were named to CFPA Watch List for their respective [...]

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Southern Women Win SWAC Tennis Title

By on April 22, 2013 in Olympic Sports

NEW ORLEANS, La. – The No. 6 singles match became the deciding factor as No. 1 seed Southern University defeated No. 2 seeded Alcorn State, 4-3, to claim the 2013 Southwestern Athletic Conference Women’s Tennis Championship on Sunday at City Park/Pepsi Tennis Center. SU captures its fourth consecutive, including 12th overall, SWAC women’s tennis title. [...]

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Is Bud Selig Using Southern’s Roger Cador To Become The Next Branch Rickey?

By on April 15, 2013 in Baseball

Southern University baseball coach Roger Cador has been tabbed by Major League Baseball to examine how to pump millions of African-American dollars into a professional sports league that is attempting to play catch up with the NBA and NFL in embracing black culture. You’ve been told that Commissioner Bud Selig wants to flood the game with black faces because [...]

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Bayou Classic Team Signs Three Year Extension With NBC Sports Group

By on April 11, 2013 in Football, News

NEW ORLEANS – The Bayou Classic team announced today that the 40 th Annual Bayou Classic will once again be broadcast on NBC nationally. The agreement between The Bayou Classic and NBC Sports Group extends the national broadcast on NBC through the 2015 contest. NBC Sports Group has been the home of The Bayou Classic since [...]

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Southern AD Offers Campus Invite To ESPN’s Pablo Torre To Show Some Love – (VIDEO)

By on March 26, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball, The Blog

ESPN.com’s Pablo Torre went where no other sportswriter had gone before when he boldly predicted on ESPN’s Behind the Horn, that No. 16 seed Southern would defeat No. 1 seed Gonzaga in the NCAA basketball tournament. While the Jags fell short to Gonzaga, losing only by 6 points in a game that would have been [...]

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Southern-Gonzaga: More Than an Upset Bid Was at Stake

By on March 23, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball, The Blog

It looked like 1993 all over again. There was Southern, the sixteenth-seeded SWAC champion, giving once Cinderella now Goliath Gonzaga all it could handle in the second-round of the NCAA Tournament. These Jaguars, the same outfit that won just four times two years ago, were threatening to upset the No. 1 ranked team in the country. [...]

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Southern’s Historic Fight Against Gonzaga Falls Short In NCAA Tournament

By on March 22, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball, The Blog

On paper, or better yet the tournament brackets, it was to be a typical first round match between a No. 1 and a No. 16 seed; a game the No. 16 seed has never won. While the later still holds true in Gonzaga’s 64-58 win over Southern, Friday’s first round game between the two teams [...]

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Southern vs. Gonzaga: Teleconference Featuring Coach Roman Banks And Players – [AUDIO]

By on March 18, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball

Southern University conducted a special teleconference earlier on Monday featuring head men’s basketball coach Roman Bank along with senior guards Jameel Grace and Derick Beltran. Banks, who earned SWAC Co-Coach of the Year honors, is in his second season as head coach at Southern. Beltran, a native of Riverview, Fla., earned first team All-SWAC honor [...]

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Southern To Face Top Seed Gonzaga In Opening Round Of NCAA Tournament

By on March 17, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball

The Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament champion Southern University Jaguars will face Gonzaga in the first round of the NCAA tournament. The Jags will be the No. 16 seed in the West Region, while the Zags, who finished the regular season as the nation’s top-ranked team, are the No. 1 seed. The two teams will meet [...]

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SWAC Basketball Tournament Recaps: Day 2

By on March 14, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball, W Basketball

Women’s Tournament #7 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 63, #2 Southern 58 GARLAND, Texas – The No. 7 seeded University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff scored 32 points in the paint to upset No. 2 seed Southern University, 63-58, on Wednesday at the Curtis Culwell Center. UAPB (13-17) advances to the semifinals of the 2013 Toyota SWAC Basketball [...]

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