It took former Southern University head football coach Pete Richardson 17 years and a couple of SWAC football championships to build up to an annual salary of $200,000. New head coach Stump Mitchell needed only to walk through the door to collect the same.
Mitchell got a three-year contract at $200,000 per season with a fourth [...]
Up and down. If you can find a better way to describe the Morgan State University football program, and its 2010 schedule, I’d like to hear it.
9/4/2010 Bowie State University
Hughes Stadium 6 p.m.
9/11/2010 University of Maryland
College Park, MD 6 p.m.
9/25/2010 * Howard University
East Rutherford, NJ 2 p.m.
10/2/2010 * Bethune-Cookman College
Hughes Stadium 4 p.m.
10/9/2010 * North Carolina A&T State University
Greensboro, NC 1 p.m.
10/23/2010 * Delaware State University [...]
Former Lane College head football coach Trent Boykin will be announced this afternoon as the new head coach of the West Tennessee War Eagles, a minor league pro football team in the Gridiron Football League.
“I didn’t think I’d get another opportunity to coach so quick,” said Boykin, who was fired from Lane earlier this month. [...]
Dave Whitney, the legendary basketball coach at Alcorn State University who amassed more than 500 career victories in 31 years, has been named to the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
He first coached the Braves from 1969-88, then returned from 1996-2002. Whitney’s Alcorn teams won 495 games and 12 Southwestern Athletic Conference titles.
Two of Whitney’s [...]
The opening round of the men’s bracket of the CIAA Basketball Tournament kicks off this evening, and its time to preview the match-ups and vote for the victors.
Men’s First Round
5:00 pm #6-Shaw vs. #11-Saint Paul’s
The Shaw Bears limp into the CIAA Tournament with a less-than-stellar finish to the season. Losers of six of their final ten [...]
It’s understood that the CIAA Basketball Tournament has the tenure, the executive organization and the marketing savvy to be an annual social boon for the City of Charlotte and the State of North Carolina. But it continues to beg the question:
Why can’t the other HBCU conferences even come close to having this kind of reach [...]
Grambling State University will face Louisiana Tech for the first time in the 2010 Port City Classic, the two schools announced today.
“We have committed to the city of Shreveport to bring at least one game over the new few years to Shreveport,” Grambling athletic director Lin Dawson said. “We have called this — to make [...]
University of Alabama head coach Nick Saban has hired former Stillman College quarterbacks coach Derrick Crudup as an offensive quality control assistant. Crudup, who played quarterback at the University of Miami, oversaw a passing offense that was second-to-last in the SIAC last season, but did have a passing efficiency rating of 85.6 on the year.
“He [...]
Norfolk State University gets two plays into the SportsCenter Top 10, and there’s a sighting from Shaw University legend Ronald “Flip” Murray.
Courtesy of CreativeLoafing.com, you can find your exclusive guide to parties and events surrounding the 2010 CIAA Basketball Tournament.
THE PARTY LIST
Wednesday, Feb. 24
2010 Ford Fan Experience at Charlotte Convention Center. High school drumline exhibition, cooking show/raffle, TouchOne Productions “Slam Poetry” and a live performance from recording artist Joe. Free. Feb. 24. Doors open at 4:30 [...]
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