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The Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers did it to Alabama A&M again. Not only did the defending champions battle their way back through the elimination bracket to earn the right to defend their title, they came from behind twice to beat Alabama A&M to claim their second consecutive SWAC Bowling title. A trimmed version of the 6 1/2 marathon will [...]

Number 16 seeded Prairie View A&M University’s season ended after suffering an 82-40 loss to No. 1 seed Baylor in the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament on Sunday inside Ferrell Center.Gabrielle Scott led Prairie View with 14 points off the bench as PVAMU (17-15) earned the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s automatic bid for the third year [...]

Sport administration is a quickly growing industry, offering careers in professional sports, collegiate sports, sport event management, coaching and even operations. It was identified as a professional field in the 1960s and 1970s when the first degree program started at Ohio University in the 1960s. Prior to that, working in sports — other than being an athlete — was not [...]

Player and Development Director for the Phoenix Suns, Lindsey Hunter, was recently named Interim Head Coach after the Sun’s parted ways with Head Coach Alvin Gentry. A native of Jackson, Mississippi, Hunter attended Jackson State University from 1990 to 1993. He played at Alcorn State University from 1988 to 1989 where he earned the achievement of Southwestern Athletic Conference Freshman [...]

After losing 23 seniors from a team that started the season 6-0 and earned the school’s first ever ranking in the FCS Top 25 Poll, Alabama A&M has a lot of work to do on the recruiting trail this season. And with National Signing Day less than three weeks away the Bulldogs have already addressed two of their biggest needs—quarterback [...]

The Jackson State football team took one step closer to making it to Birmingham, Alabama for the 2012 Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship Game by beating the Alabama A&M Bulldogs 35-21 at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium Saturday night. On Senior Day JSU’s star wide receiver Rico Richardson reached a milestone that only five other JSU receivers have accomplished. Richardson joined JSU’s [...]

The Alabama State Hornets held on to beat Southern 31-30 in a Southwestern Athletic Conference game at A.W. Mumford Stadium. Alabama State (7-3 overall, 7-2 SWAC) remains in a virtual tie for the Eastern Division lead with Jackson State, a 35-21 winner over Alabama A&M. Jackson State (6-4, 6-2) plays at Alcorn State next Saturday. A loss by  JSU clinches the [...]

As Jackson State readies for Saturday’s SWAC game at Grambling State (1-7, 0-6 SWAC), it does so with a surprisingly good ground game. JSU (4-4, 4-2 SWAC) will pull into Grambling boasting the league’s third-ranked rushing offense at 180.8 yards per game. That’s just two yards behind second-ranked Alabama State, which as you may recall made quite the off-season splash [...]

Joseph LeBeau doesn’t need to glance at the SWAC standings to know the importance of Jackson State’s Saturday game at Alabama State. And he also warns anyone who might be judging the Tigers (2-4, 2-2 SWAC) solely by their record could be in for a rude awakening. Throughout the highs and lows JSU’s 2-4 start have provided, LeBeau and the [...]

With Saturday’s game drawing closer, we check in today with al.com’s HBCU reporter, Nick Birdsong, who not only has one of the better Twitter handles around (@birds_word), but also does a great job covering my home state’s SWAC schools. Birdsong was nice enough to answer a few questions regarding the Hornets’ season and how they managed to arrive at this week’s game at 4-1 in SWAC [...]

Uh oh. That had to be the collective thought of the rest of Alabama State’s opponents after Isaiah Crowell churned out his second-straight 100-plus yard game of the season. The 5-foot-11, 195-pound sophomore racked up 149 yards and two touchdowns on 17 carries in the Hornets’ 45-0 dismantling of Texas Southern at home this past weekend. Monday, the Georgia transfer [...]

Breathe easy Alabama A&M fans. Kaderius Lacey is alright, according to Bulldogs coach Anthony Jones. The first-team selection to the All-Southwestern Athletic Conference squad year ago went down early in the Bulldogs’ 35-0 win at Mississippi Valley State this past Saturday and didn’t see much action the remainder of the contest. He finished with six carries for 39 yards and [...]

Alabama A&M running back Kaderius Lacey, a first-team All-Southwestern Athletic Conference preseason pick, left Saturday’s game with an ankle injury late in the second quarter and never returned. Lacey suffered a sprain right ankle midway through the first half, but returned to the game with just over a minute left in the quarter. He finished the game with 47 yards [...]

The SWAC Football season is set to kick off on Labor Day weekend with a full slate of games. As teams make final preparations to open the season, here is the schedule of events and contests this weekend. Monday, August 27 SWAC Coaches Teleconference Saturday, September 1 New Mexico vs. Southern in Albuquerque, NM (4:00) Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs. Langston in [...]

The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) has announced that Toyota will serve as title sponsor for the 2012 SWAC Football Championship at last Monday’s annual SWAC Football Media Day. This year, Toyota will serve as the presenting sponsor of the 2012 men’s football regular season and championship games. “Toyota is excited to serve as title sponsor of the 2012 SWAC” stated [...]

The eighth installment of the MEAC/SWAC Challenge presented by Disney features Bethune-Cookman of the MEAC against Isaiah Crowell and his newest team Alabama State of the SWAC. The game will be held Sunday, Sept. 2, at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium in Orlando (noon ET on ESPN). The yearly event features teams from two prominent Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) [...]

Grambling (11-7, 5-1 SWAC West The Tigers scored the biggest non-conference win of the season for any SWAC school knocking off #5 Rice in the finale of their series on Sunday. GSU moved a half game in front of Prairie View for the division lead after the Panthers fell at Southern. Prairie View A&M (11-8, 4-1 SWAC West) Despite dropping [...]

Grambling State University has reassigned both men’s basketball coach Bobby Washington and women’s coach Donnita Rogers to positions within the department. In three years as head coach — one with the interim tag — Washington led the Tigers to a first-round SWAC tournament upset of Jackson State in 2010 and to the SWAC tournament title game for the first time [...]