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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 [...]

Grambling State University is getting national attention thanks to Yahoo and CBS Sports’ online videos highlighting the football team, bands and various other groups. The four-minute videos went online shortly before midnight Monday and can be viewed at http://sports.yahoo.com/featured/roadtosaturday/ A 30-minute television show, “Road to Saturday,” about Grambling going to last Saturday’s State Fair Classic in Dallas will be shown [...]

Willis-Knighton Health Systems has donated $205,000 to Grambling State University. Grambling President Frank G. Pogue says the funds will be used to help attract high-level faculty for the university’s health care programs. Willis-Knighton is the region’s largest health care firm. Pogue says the total could grow to $325,000 with additional contributions by the state. Willis-Knighton Health Systems President and CEO [...]

It took mere hours Monday to transform Centenary College’s Fitness Center into a makeshift shelter – turning a basketball court into a space for cots and linens and transforming meeting rooms into quiet spaces for Dillard University students to talk to family members and study away from their New Orleans dorms. That evening the Shreveport campus began housing approximately 120 [...]

Grambling State University will again host the LA GEAR UP summer learning camps with week I which July 8-14. Week II activities will be held from July 15-21. The focus of the LA GEAR UP (Louisiana Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) camps is to help students develop and enhance academic and leadership skills needed to promote success [...]

Imagine a sawmill owner doing something that had not much to do with his core, primary business. Imagine that guy deciding that, for the good of the community, he wanted to do something big, something that would have lasting impact. Imagine a white man helping black farmers and others who had struggled to keep a small academic institution going from [...]

    Grambling State wide receiver Mario Louis entered the 2012 NFL draft in hopes of being the first Tiger drafted since the Dallas Cowboys took defensive end Jason Hatcher in 2005 in the third round with pick No.92. Unfortunately, that didn’t go in Louis’ favor; however inspite of being undrafted, his chances of landing a spot on the Houston Texans roster are [...]

Grambling State University and Doug Williams have always been on the same team. From the quarterback’s playing days at GSU, to Williams’ current position as the Tigers’ head football coach. But the former Grambling State great now finds himself on the other sideline, suing his alma mater over a contract dispute Friday. NBC 10 Sports reported in early March, that [...]

  Thursday Grambling’s SGA and FSUB committee rallied a march, beginning at the flagpole and ended on the yard, to show their respect for the unsolved, unjust murder of Trayvon Martin. On Feb. 26, 17 the nation was captivated when Martin, a 17-year-old African American male, was wrongfully killed in Sanford, Fla. by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old bi-racial Latino and [...]

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 [...]

In a visit to Grambling State University, Nikki Giovanni shared her wisdom and experiences. The world-renowned poet aimed to inspire a new generation of leaders. “HBCUs don’t have a bad image, we don’t have enough money,” she said. “The GOP doesn’t like intelligent negroes. There’s nothing less logical in America than the hatred of Black people.” Giovanni discussed her experiences [...]

Twelve figures from Grambling State University’s athletic lore — including four-time NFL Pro Bowler Albert Lewis, NBA first-round selection Aaron James, and former baseball coach and athletic administrator Wilbert Ellis — will be part of the fourth-annual Grambling Legends Sports Hall of Fame induction class this summer. “The Legends Hall of Fame provides the recognition and notoriety that should have [...]

“I’m just ready to be a pro,” said Grambling State’s junior guard Quincy Roberts as he will forgo his senior season and declare for the 2012 NBA draft. “When you work hard, dedicate, and put your all into what you do, it’s only right that you expect success. I am fortunate enough to seize the opportunity and I will be [...]

Doug Williams may no longer be the head coach of the Grambling State Tigers. KTVE Sports has learned that Williams, who is in his second run at his alma mater, will go into spring drills without a contract approved by the Louisiana State Board. When Williams was hired last spring, he signed a deal with the president and then athletic [...]

Grambling State University President Frank Pogue says as state funding to higher education continues to decline, financial support from the community will become more important than ever for GSU. Pogue spoke to members of the Monroe and West Monroe business communities about the financial state of the university during a breakfast Wednesday morning at The Atrium. “All higher education institutions [...]

The 2012 SWAC Tournament promises to be a week filled with great basketball and exciting events. Taking place on Wednesday, March 7, will be SWAC Goes Hip-Hop. The ancillary event is being hosted at The PROPHET Bar in Dallas, Texas, and will feature Grambling State graduate DJ Low Down Loretta Brown; better known as Erykah Badu. Accompanying her, will be [...]

In honor of Black History Month, Judge Glenda Hatchett visited Grambling State University’s campus. Showing off her bedazzled cast, Judge Hatchett put to rest the rumors of “jumping off the bench and kicking someone’s butt.” “I wasn’t going to let a broken foot stop me from being here,” she said. Before showing her knowledge of Grambling’s history, she wanted the [...]