In the spirit of Black History Month, ESPN.com is holding a contest for fans to rank the best black college marching bands. 15 bands to select from, and a whole lotta controversy about bands that were included on and left off the list. But what do you expect? It’s ESPN, and its a Black History [...]
Two black college marching bands have been featured in nationally-prominent football games in the last two weeks – the Southern University Human Jukebox at the NFC Championship game, and the Bethune-Cookman University Marching Wildcats in tonight’s NFL Pro Bowl. The former was broadcast on FOX, the latter on ESPN. Both were on display for national [...]
The Stillman Tigers began the season as one of the hottest black college basketball teams in the nation. A 4-0 start and a top 25 ranking put them on locker room bulletin boards throughout the SIAC. But three six conference losses out of nine opportunities in 2010 have knocked the Tigers from the top of [...]
Christian Morris, a sophomore center for the Norfolk State Spartans, has left the team and withdraw from the university for family-related reasons. “Christian’s mom is sick, and he has a younger sister at home, and this has been weighing on him a bit for some time,” coach Anthony Evans said. “Christian has withdrawn from school [...]
The Florida A&M Board of Trustees have selected Tallahassee architecture firm Gilchrist Ross & Crowe to design a 78,100 square foot facility for the shared FAMU-Florida State University College of Engineering program. “We have an approved mini-facilities program with a line item in the amount of $1.6 million for professional fees to include architectural and [...]
Alumni and supporters of Florida A&M University are in full mobilization mode to secure state fund for support of the university’s College of Pharmacy. A petition is in nation-wide circulation to ask the Florida state legislature to allot funds to the College that, by some estimates, produces one out of every five Black pharmacists in [...]
Courtesy of MarchingSport.com, we discover that six former members of the Texas Southern University ‘Motion of the Ocean’ dance troupe have formed a dance crew that will be competing on Season 5 of ‘America’s Best Dance Crew.’ Unfortunately, MTV gave the ladies this terrible bio: These former Texas Southern University majorettes are bringing their bootylicious [...]
I’m really quite surprised that the annual Honda Battle of the Bands hasn’t reached the kind of national media spotlight that the Bayou Classic has reached. Granted, the Bayou Classic has a 36-year, media assisted history behind it. But everyone knows that HBCUs are the occasional darlings of the college sports culture for one reason. [...]
The South Carolina State Foundation will hold its annual Scholarship Gala and Tribute on Saturday, Feb. 20, at Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center on the campus of S.C. State at 7 p.m. But what you really wanted to hear is who the special guest will be, and it will be world-famous songstress Regina Belle. The S.C. State [...]
Now this is a first…a band director alleged takes money off the top from music scholarships? Langston University Band Director Albert Jackson has been placed on administrative leave with pay pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation for “financial improprieties” university officials announced Wednesday… According to Langston University Police Chief Michael Storr, Jackson allegedly received [...]
