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An NCAA tournament de force performance – Coppin State College

It was as shocking as it was improbable. As a result, some are calling Coppin State College’s dramatic win over the University of South Carolina in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Tournament the single most significant victory in the history of sports at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 6, 2007

Arthur Ashe and the next generation of student athletes – Sports Scholars

With all the attention that we have finally come to pay to Arthur Ashe as a pioneering professional athlete and humanitarian it is easy to forget that Ashe was first an incredible college student-athlete at the University of California Los Angeles in the 1960s.

July 6, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Suit threatens status of Georgia’s public Black universities

ATLANTA Alumni and supporters of Georgia’s historically Black public colleges and universities are beginning to mobilize in reaction to a law suit filed last month that seeks to increase white enrollment at those schools.

July 5, 2007

Morehouse seeks football glory – Doug Williams as a Morehouse College’s football coach

In some circles, the news of former Super Bowl most valuable player Doug Williams taking the job as Morehouse College’s new head football coach was surprising. In recent weeks, it had been reported that Williams was the leading candidate to replace Grambling’s legendary coach Eddie Robinson at the end of the 1997 season. Williams, a […]

July 4, 2007

Battle joins Bulls as assistant coach

AMHERST N.Y. Former star guard Turner Battle is back with the Bulls, hired on Thursday as a University at Buffalo men’s basketball assistant coach.

July 4, 2007

Abbott, Brayton among College Baseball Hall of Fame inductees

LUBBOCK Texas Former Michigan star and major league pitcher Jim Abbott was one of 11 former players and coaches inducted Wednesday into the College Baseball Hall of Fame.

July 4, 2007

Coach Rob gets encore season at Grambling – Grambling University football coach Eddie Robinson gets extension

The curtain finally closed on a week-long controversy surrounding Eddie Robinson, Grambling University’s legendary football coach.

July 4, 2007

Former Kentucky coach named assistant at Texas

AUSTIN Texas Former Kentucky women’s basketball coach Mickie DeMoss was hired Tuesday as an assistant at Texas.

July 3, 2007

Montana State-Billings hires softball coach

BILLINGS Mont. Tony Stone, a former assistant softball coach at Montana State University-Billings, will return as the school’s new head softball coach, said Gary Gray, director of intercollegiate athletics at the Billings campus.

July 3, 2007

Tommy Bell named athletic director at Indian University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

FORT WAYNE Ind. Tommy Bell, who oversaw fundraising for Southern Illinois University’s athletic department since 2001, was named Monday as IPFW’s athletic director.

July 1, 2007

Ellis hired as Coastal Carolina coach

CONWAY S.C. Cliff Ellis was hired as Coastal Carolina’s basketball coach Monday, succeeding Buzz Peterson at a school that finished 15-15 last year.

July 1, 2007

Ellis hired as Coastal Carolina coach

CONWAY S.C. Cliff Ellis was hired as Coastal Carolina’s basketball coach Monday, succeeding Buzz Peterson at a school that finished 15-15 last year.

July 1, 2007

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