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Quentin Williams threw two touchdown passes and ran for 121 of Bethune-Cookman’s 377 rushing yards as the Tigers beat Savannah State 49-7 Saturday in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game. Williams completed 9 of 12 passes for 103 yards and threw touchdown passes of 11 and 36 yards. His second touchdown, a strike to David Blackwell, gave Bethune-Cookman a 35-0 halftime [...]

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Keith Pough of Howard University has been named the Co-Defensive Player of the Week by the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. A 6-3, 240-pound red-shirt senior linebacker from Orangeburg, SC, Pough had one of the best games of his productive career in the Bison’s 17-10 win over Florida A&M University this past Saturday. He tallied a game-high 17 tackles, 12 of them [...]

In 1948, Medgar Evers arrived at Alcorn College with a GI Bill, a football scholarship and eyes that had seen two very different sides of the same world. Mississippi represented one side. Evers grew up in Decatur, a farming town buried inside a state in which extreme racial divisiveness was status quo for the times. But at 23 years old, [...]

If there is one thing that might worry the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team when they face off against the Howard Bison on Saturday afternoon, it is Jamie Cunningham. The 6’4″, 205-pound freshman quarterback came practically out of nowhere last week to engineer the Bison’s come-from-behind 30-29 victory over Morehouse College in the Second Annual AT&T Nation’s Football Classic. Cunningham [...]

Teddy Keaton took Stillman College to a 7-4 record in 2011 in his first season as head coach, an improvement of four victories over the previous season. But Keaton, who previously served on the Stillman staff as an assistant, doesn’t want to rest on last year’s record. “The history at Stillman is we have a good record every four or [...]

After spending two weeks preparing for a game that has now been postponed, Texas A&M has turned the page and its attention to Florida. With the Aggies’ new season opener scheduled for Sept. 8 at Kyle Field after the original opener against Louisiana Tech, scheduled for Thursday, was postponed to Aug. 13 because of Hurricane Isaac, they closed the book [...]

Brawnski Towns doesn’t pay much attention to the year that is listed next to a player on the roster. Instead, Alabama A&M’s long-time defensive coordinator and secondary coach, pays more mind to what is being done on the field. That’s why he’s not concerned with his young secondary, which includes junior Derrick Harris at right cornerback, redshirt sophomore A.J. Clark [...]

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 [...]

A New York Jets football player who was charged with malicious wounding while he was a student at Hampton University two years ago signed off on a plea agreement Monday that reduces the charge to a misdemeanor and allows him to avoid deportation. Kenrick A. Ellis, 24, a second-year nose tackle with the Jets and a former all-conference player at [...]

The Southwestern Athletic Conference has given the NFL Jerry Rice, the league’s all-time reception leader; Walter Payton, the No. 2 all-time rushing leader; Michael Strahan, the league’ single-season sack champion and Doug Williams, MVP of Super Bowl XXII. In three of the past four NFL drafts, the SWAC has given the league nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Bupkiss. Have the SWAC [...]

Columbus, GA – The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) have announced that Johnson C. Smith University and Miles College have been selected to participate in the 13th Pioneer Bowl. The game will take place on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at A.J. McClung Stadium in Columbus, GA at 1:00pm (EST). The Johnson C. Smith University [...]

By Alvin Hollins, Jr. One of the most enduring Black College Football rivalries of all time, Florida A&M-Southern will enjoy its’ 60threnewal September 24th, when the two schools meet in the Bank of America Atlanta Football Classic in the Georgia Dome. Considered a literal “Clash of the Titans,” the FAMU-Southern series features programs that have won a combined 20 Black [...]

With the release of statistics by the NCAA for the second week of the 2011 football season, Central State has a No. 1 ranking among Independent colleges and universities at the Division II level. Wilson, Darius (Matteson, IL, Rich South High School), the Marauders 6’1, 225-pound junior linebacker from Matteson, Illinois, is tops in the Tackles for Loss category after [...]

The Yellow Jacket defense redeemed itself and the offense moved the ball but in the end a few mistakes proved to be too much to overcome as WVSU fell to visiting Virginia State 17-14 Saturday. The Trojans were picked to finish fourth in the CIAA this season. Last week WSVU fell 64-27 to John C, Smith which was picked to wind up [...]

The Bowie State University Bulldogs (1-0) opened the 2011 football season with an impressive 28-7 non-conference road contest at Assumption College (0-1). In terms of team stats, Assumption’s Greyhounds accumulated 202 yards of total offense (101 passing), compared to 344 total yards (228 passing) for Bowie State’s Bulldogs. Bowie State played well on defense, sacking Assumption’s quarterbacks four times. “This [...]

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Sports website HBCU Sports Online have drafted up a list of who they think are the 25 Greatest HBCU Players of the Modern Era and none other than Mississippi Valley State University alum and Super Bowl champion Jerry Rice topped the list. While at MVSU Rice was a three time All-SWAC conference player and set all-time SWAC receiving records with 310 [...]