An extremely liberating move has been made in favor of college athletes all over the country that seems to answer all the pleas that student-athletes have been making for years. A law went into effect on July 1st that now allows students opportunities to profit
CHARLOTTE, NC –The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) will begin the 2021 football season with its annual football media day on Thursday, July 22. The event will take place in a fully virtual setting for the first time in the conference’s history. Each of the CIAA’s twelve head football
Photo courtesy of North Carolina A&T Athletics The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Trials for Track and Field were held this past weekend where we saw HBCUs and African American athletes having incredible success, sending several athletes to the 2021 Olympic Games. Representing North Carolina A&T, Randolph
(JACKSON, Miss.) — JSU’s College of Health Sciences will present a COVID-19 virtual town hall about sports and depression, featuring nine-time NBA All-Star Dominique Wilkins and NFL Superbowl champion David Fulcher, along with other sports and health professionals for Mental Health Awareness Month.Jackson State University
The 2021 MEAC Golf Championship was played this past weekend in Greensboro, with the Florida A&M Rattlers being the victors of the tournament. This marks the first MEAC conference championship in program history. The Rattlers shot with pinpoint accuracy the entire tournament, shooting a combined
Long-time Virginia football coach Elisha “Cadillac” Harris attended his virtual retirement celebration, hosted by his wife, Bonita Billingsley Harris, to commemorate a long, successful football career both as a player and a coach. Flourishing as a player first, Harris played football at Norfolk State College
(JACKSON, Miss.) — U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker sought opinions from JSU President Thomas K. Hudson and Tigers’ Coach Prime (Deion Sanders) about compensating student-athletes for the use of their names, images and likenesses and claims the “devil is in the details” about a proposed “Player’s
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service)- Tennessee State University head football coach Rod Reed’s contract will not be renewed after 11 seasons at the helm of the TSU football program. The announcement comes following the conclusion of the shortened 2020-21 spring football season in which the Tigers
Denmark, S.C.- Charlene Myers Johnson, vice president for student affairs and director of athletics, was recently recognized as a MidEastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) pioneer in women’s sports in celebration of MEAC’s 50th anniversary and Women’s History Month. The MEAC Senior Woman Administrators selected Johnson along
The men’s and women’s MEAC basketball tournament took place two weeks ago to see who would get the opportunity to represent one of the two HBCU conferences in the NCAA Tournament this March. The men’s championship game was played between Morgan State and Norfolk State
