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Three programs banned from post-season play.foxnews.com/sports/2013/06… — FCS Football (@FCS_Football) June 12, 2013 Three programs from the two FCS conferences for historically black colleges and universities received postseason bans Tuesday for poor NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate scores. The bans, based on four-year APR data, were lobbied against Alabama State and Mississippi Valley State in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, [...]

Ever since he was a little boy Padric Scott wanted to be an NFL player. With hard-work, self-determination and ongoing support, the 6’1 320 pound Nose Tackle made it happen when he was picked up by the Arizona Cardinals. Now the once feared lineman of the FAMU defense is in a new position where those after him, talented HBCU football [...]

NFL Hall of Fame defensive end David “Deacon” Jones died on Monday, June 4 at the age of 74. Jones will be most remembered for his outstanding NFL career, where he made a living out of putting quarterbacks in the dirt. Sacks, a term Jones is credited with coining, were not an official statistic when he played in the 1960s, [...]

Head Coach of the Southern University Jaguars Dawson Odums looks to continue his success from last season when the football team take on the Univerity of Houston Courgars in The Bayou Bucket at Reliant Stadium on August 30. When asked what’s the game plan for the upcoming season, Coach Odums replied @tommymeade_ WIN #GOJAGS — Coach Dawson Odums (@Coach_Odums) May 8, 2013 But before the first-year [...]

The Virginia Union University football team will graduate a record number 18 players when the school hosts its Commencement on Saturday, May 11 in Richmond, Va. The total amount of graduates this year doubles the amount of nine the football team had last year. After a .500 season during its 2012-2013 football schedule, the Virginia Union Panthers hope to have better overall [...]

Winston-Salem State has played in several big games over the past few seasons, but few of them have found their way to television. The Rams will reap the benefits of their success this year as the national runner-up will kick off the 2013 season on the tube. The NCAA announced on Monday that WSSU’s Sept. 5 season opener against UNC-Pembroke will [...]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A little known jockey and a lightly regarded horse pulled off an upset victory for trainer Doug O’Neill at last year’s Kentucky Derby. On Saturday, he’ll give another relative unknown a chance of not only winning the big race but joining him in the record books if that happens. Kevin Krigger, the first black jockey in the Derby since 2000, will be aboard O’Neill’s Goldencents, [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The countdown begins! Events DC announced today that tickets for the third annual AT&T Nation’s Football Classic® go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 3 at Ticketmaster, the Howard University Box Office at Cramton Auditorium and the Morehouse College Bookstore. The Howard Bison meet the Morehouse Maroon Tigers on Saturday, September 7 at RFK Stadium at 3:30 p.m. All lower [...]

ATLANTA — Three Morehouse College athletes and another student have been accused of rape and other charges. These stem from two alleged assaults in March and April. Chukwudi Ndudikwa and Malcolm Frank face rape and aggravated sodomy charges. Tevin Mgbo is looking at charges of aggravated sodomy, kidnapping and reckless conduct. In an unrelated incident Lucien Kidd was arrested and charged with Rape in [...]

N.C. A&T will face off against MEAC rival South Carolina State in the 25th playing of the Atlanta Football Classic, the Aggies’ first-ever appearance in the game. The Classic, which takes place at the Georgia Dome on Oct. 5, with a kickoff time yet to be determined, drew an announced 41,042 fans when Florida A&M took on Southern last September. [...]

It was a big day for HBCU student-athletes at the 2013 NFL Draft yesterday. Here’s a quick recap: High school wide receiver turned feared linebacker Keith Pough was drafted by the Buffalo Bills. Pough was the all-time FCS leader in tackles for loss. Everybody’s path to greatness is different some take the elevator, some take the escalators & I have [...]

With the 245th pick in the 2013 NFL draft, the  selected linebacker Brandon Hepburn out of Florida A&M University. Hepburn is 6-foot-2, 240-pounds. He had 86 tackles (9.5 for a loss), 5.5 sacks, seven pass breakups and a forced fumble as a senior. Here’s a little bit more on Hepburn: The path from Division I-AA walk-on to being selected in [...]

As with several of the other signings the Chiefs have made during this post draft, undrafted free agent frenzy, the team is sticking close to home with Richardson. Richardson did not participate in the NFL Combine, but he did have a showing during Jackson State’s Pro Day. 2013 Jackson State Pro Day: A total of 10 players from Jackson State [...]

Once upon a time, Keith Pough was a 5’8″ wide receiver at Scotts Branch High School in South Carolina. That was a long time ago, however, and now Pough is a 6’2″, 239-pound linebacker who leaves Howard University as the all-time FCS leader in tackles for loss. Now was drafted by the National Football Association to the Buffalo Bills More [...]

The New Orleans Saints have selected Terron Armstead, an offensive tackle out of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, with their third-round pick in the NFL draft. The 6-foot-5, 306-pound lineman, picked 75th overall, represents New Orleans’ lone pick on Friday night. The Saints were docked their second-round selection as part of their punishment stemming from the NFL’s 2012 bounty findings. #Saints select Arkansas-Pine [...]

The softball bats and golf clubs have been stored away. All is quiet, too, at the basketball gymnasium, the volleyball courts and the soccer field. Only the tennis team endures at Spelman College, and after the Great South Athletic Conference tournament the last weekend of April, it will also be done. Then Spelman, a historically black women’s college with alumnae [...]

Coach Anthony Evans rebuilt Norfolk State University’s basketball program, led the school to a MEAC title last year, lost Kyle O’Quinn and three other starters and then followed up by going unbeaten in the regular season this year–losing to Florida in the NCAA tournament. There is no doubt why coach Evans is a “hot coaching commodity.” Evans recently resigned from [...]

Norfolk State guard Pendarvis Williams (11) draws a foul as he is blocked by Virginia forwards Evan Nolte, right, and Darion Atkins, left, during the first half of a first-round NIT college basketball game in Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) For the second-straight year the Boxtorow HBCU Division Men’s Basketball Player of the Year Award went [...]