Category: HBCU Sports

Norfolk State football begins camp Wednesday

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Courtesy of Brian Howard, Asst. AD/Communications, Norfolk State Athletics Football season is officially back in the Tidewater Area!  The Norfolk State University football team reports to camp on Tuesday, with the first practice set for Wednesday morning.  Norfolk State kicks off its practice slate at 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The Spartans will practice four consecutive days before their first off day, which comes on Sunday, Aug. 6.   The fall camp is closed to the public. Members of the media will be allowed to attend the first 45 minutes of…

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Tuskegee hires Chiante Wester as new women’s basketball coach

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Courtesy of Tuskegee Athletics Chiante Wester has been named the new head coach of the women’s basketball program at Tuskegee University, Director of Athletics Reginald Ruffin announced on Wednesday. “The goal of this department is to always continue to build on the standard that has been set,” Ruffin stated. “In the hiring of Coach Wester, we believe that Tuskegee women’s basketball will again have a coach that can carry the recent momentum along with maintain the duty to educate, dominate, and graduate our student-athletes.” Wester comes to lead the Golden Tiger…

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5th Annual Top 50 Camp, featuring SIAC and SWAC Basketball Players on July 27

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Courtesy of the SIAC The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (“SIAC”) and the Southwestern Athletic Conference (“SWAC”) are pleased to announce their continued partnership in hosting the 5th annual Top 50 Basketball Camp. The camp will take place July 27th – 29th on the campus of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA.  The best players from each conference will be featured at the camp in a model like the NBPA’s TOP 100 Camp. Players at the Top 50 Camp will participate in basketball skill training exercises and…

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Where you can see 10 Grambling football games this season

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Courtesy of Curtis Ford, Grambling State Athletics Grambling State University football fans will have the opportunity to watch the G-Men compete nearly every weekend, as the Tigers will have 10 games broadcast or steamed live this season. The Tigers’ 2023 slate features six games on the ESPN linear and digital platforms, two games on HBCUGo, and a pair of games on NBC and NFL Network.  2023 Grambling State Football TV Schedule Date   Opponent  Network Sept. 2 vs Hampton University    NFL Network Sept.9 at  Louisiana State University  ESPN+/SEC Network+  Sept.16   vs Florida Memorial…

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PepsiCo expands relationship with SWAC

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Courtesy of the Southwestern Athletic Conference PepsiCo is expanding its relationship with the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), more than doubling its investment in the premiere HBCU conference as it enters a six-year title partnership as the first-ever exclusive beverage, sports performance product and salty snacks sponsor of SWAC Football, Basketball, Olympic Sports and eSports through 2029. Building on its 2020 commitment as an exclusive beverage partner, the new title sponsorship deal makes PepsiCo the main carbonated soft drink, non-carbonated soft drink, sports performance drink and ready-to-eat snack foods provider of the…

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SWAC announces 2023 preseason Football Honorees

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Courtesy of the Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference announced its 2023 Preseason All-SWAC Football selections and Predicted Order of Finish on Tuesday during SWAC Football Media Day at the Sheraton Hotel in Downtown Birmingham. The Preseason All-SWAC teams, Individual Winners, and Predicted Order of Finish was voted on by the league’s head coaches and sports information directors.  Florida A&M’s Jeremy Moussa was named Preseason Offensive Player of the Year while Grambling State’s Sundiata Anderson was tabbed Preseason Defensive Player of the Year. Moussa completed a stellar 2022 campaign as he was named…

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Tennessee State Women’s hoops adds 5 transfers

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Courtesy of Stephen Featherston, Assistant Director of Communication, Tennessee State Athletics The Tennessee State women’s basketball program has added five transfers to its roster for the upcoming 2023-24 season, with four of them coming from NCAA Division I programs. Head coach Ty Evans revealed that Aaniya Webb, Diamond Cannon, Caitlin Anderson, Sanaa’ St. Andre, and Kameria Piggee will join the Lady Tigers for the upcoming season. Webb arrives from St. Bonaventure, Cannon from Tennessee Martin, Anderson from Indiana State, St. Andre from Missouri Kansas City, and Piggee from Mt. San Antonio College.…

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SIAC announces HBCU Go streaming schedule for 2023 football season

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Courtesy of the SIAC Today, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) announces the 2023 Football schedule and Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group (AMG) free-streaming digital platform HBCU GO — the leading media provider for the nation’s 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), as its exclusive broadcast partner. A total of five football matchups (see schedule below) highlight the 2023 HBCU GO slate of conference games, with an exhilarating Miles-Albany State rivalry set to wrap up the schedule on October 28, LIVE from Albany, Georgia.   “This is a historic moment,”…

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SIAC Announces ESPN Football Schedule

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Courtesy of the SIAC ATLANTA, GA. (July 12, 2023) – The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) returns to ESPN for the third straight year this fall with 22 college football games to air exclusively across ESPN platforms, including ESPNU and ESPN+. The 2023 lineup features exciting and historical matchups like the season-opening Boeing Red Tails Classic, the Fountain City Classic, and the Morehouse-Tuskegee Classic, as well as the highly-anticipated SIAC Football Championship Game on November 11. Beginning this fall, all 13 SIAC football programs will compete in a modified eight-game conference schedule…

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SIAC announces preseason football honors

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Courtesy of the SIAC The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) has announced their All-SIAC preseason football team featuring 26 returning players from the 2022 SIAC Football All-Conference team.  This year’s preseason team is led by Fort Valley State’s Kelvin Durham who was selected as this year’s Preseason Offensive Player of the Year alongside Loobert Denelus, Benedict College, who was tabbed as the 2023 Preseason Defensive Player of the Year announced Wednesday during the league’s media day in Atlanta, Ga. All nominations and votes are submitted by head coaches and sports information directors. Preseason Offensive…

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