From time to time HBCUSportsOnline will take a hard look at the "dollars and sense" of black college sports. We will interview administrators, review marketing strategies and analyze the numbers. This week, guest writer Francis Niles takes a hard loo ...
Posted Thursday, August 26th 2010 at 9:09AM
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Labor Day Weekend is the official start to the college football season and on Thursday, Sept. 2, HBCUSportsOnline will host the 2010 Black College Football Kickoff Party in Atlanta at STRIP Steaks & Sushi . The goal of this event is to bring together ...
Posted Saturday, August 7th 2010 at 8:30AM
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Stacy Danley was certainly aware of Alabama State's revolving door in the athletic department.
The university has had six different athletic directors since Rob Spivery left in 2002, seven if you want to count executive vice president John Knight ...
Posted Monday, August 2nd 2010 at 2:09PM
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Norfolk State wide receiver P.J. Hayden, the second leading receiver on last year's team, will redshirt this season after being ruled academically ineligible.
His loss means Norfolk State will be trying to replace more than two-thirds of its recei ...
Posted Monday, August 2nd 2010 at 2:06PM
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Competitive cheerleading is not an official sport that colleges can use to meet gender-equity requirements, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in ordering a Connecticut school to keep its women's volleyball team. Several volleyball players and their co ...
Posted Thursday, July 22nd 2010 at 11:53AM
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With offensive and defensive players of the year returning from 2009 in Prairie View quarterback K.J. Black and Grambling defensive end Christian Anthony, the preseason all-SWAC football team for 2010 carried few surprises - especially since Prairie ...
Posted Thursday, July 22nd 2010 at 11:23AM
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Six more Xavier University of Louisiana student-athletes earned recognition as Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars for 2009-10.
They weren't listed in the April 29 edition of Diverse Issues in Higher Education, the magazine which sponsors the awards, but certificates honoring the six arrived in the mail at XU athletics this month.
The Ashe awards are given to student-athletes of color who have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.2 or higher on a 4.0 scale through the fall 2009 seme ...
Posted Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 12:32PM
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Rust College added more versatility with the last addition to the 2010-11 Lady Bearcat’s volleyball Squad.
The Lady Bearcat’s volleyball program added Olivia C. McKinsey of Farmington, New Mexico on July 4, 2010 announced Head Volleyball Coach Bra ...
Posted Tuesday, July 13th 2010 at 1:40PM
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Hampton University, Saint Augustine's College and Langston University are the top HBCU athletics programs based on the final standings of the 2009-10 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup.
Hampton was tabbed as the top-ranked Division I program. Saint A ...
Posted Monday, July 12th 2010 at 6:44PM
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Former Lincoln University three-sport athlete Monte Irvin has been away from baseball for years, but he was enshrined once more for his contributions to a team and a sport he helped revolutionize.
Saturday at AT&T Park in San Francisco, the Giants ...
Posted Wednesday, July 7th 2010 at 1:28PM
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Recent Anniston High School graduate Darius Taylor was skilled enough in two sports that he didn’t have to worry about which one would ultimately come through and fund his college education.
Taylor, who stands at 6-foot-4, played basketball and t ...
Posted Tuesday, July 6th 2010 at 11:58AM
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In the most recent installment of his series of interviews on players who are among the best pros to come out of their particular schools, CHN writer Jon Teitel spent some time with UMES great Talvin Skinner. Skinner was the leader of a UMES squad in ...
Posted Tuesday, June 29th 2010 at 1:49PM
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Former Nettleton basketball standout Blake Birks is a believer that everything works out according to God's plan.
But even though he feels like his signing with Rust College is where he is supposed to be, it doesn't stop him from wanting to prove ...
Posted Thursday, June 24th 2010 at 4:23PM
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Dr. James Ammons, president Florida A&M University, sent a letter to the FAMU Alumni Association expressing the university’s reservations with the MEAC’s proposal to forgoe the FCS playoffs in order to participate in the inaugural Legacy Bowl. The ME ...
Posted Saturday, June 5th 2010 at 11:27AM
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