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Here is what happened between Eddie Robinson Jr. and Deion Sanders at midfield.
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Shedeur literally was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, on GMA, and was featured on both College GameDay LAST SEASON as an HBCU QB. What the hell are you talking about?.
What an introduction to the College football world @ShedeurSanders!! You are who your father said you were. Love it. Shine on young brother.
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Tennessee State coach Eddie George was candid in saying that HBCUs across the country being underfunded was a case of systemic racism.
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The comparisons of Boulder, Colorado to Jackson, Mississippi did not sit well with the Tigers women’s basketball coach.
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Colorado is an HBCU. Colorado is now black-ish and hip-hop because Deion Sanders is a football coach at the school. What a slap in the face of HBCUs and Black people.
Am I right about @DeionSanders' impact on the #ColoradoBuffaloes?!? 😂😂😂😂. 🎥 @torienpippens .#DeionSanders #UniversityOfColorado #HBCU #CoachPrime @CUBuffsFootball
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Can you wear this sweater even though you signed with a PWI?
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P. Diddy just presented Jackson State with a $1 million donation that he promised at last year’s BET Awards.
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Noah Bodden, No. 1 high school QB in New York, commits to Grambling State
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BREAKING: Texas Southern is expected to name Fred McNair its next head coach, sources told @HBCUSports.
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Before the narrative starts, let's not frame this as Ed Reed or any other ex-NFL player being an HBCU head coach as "giving back" like they're doing community service. HBCUs are not charity cases. Ed Reed, and any other football coach, are hired to win football games.
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Mississippi Valley State - a program that's came into today 0-10 and hadn't won since last October — is going to walk out of Bragg Memorial Stadium with a win over Florida A&M to end the Rattlers 23 game home winning streak.
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"No, you cannot transplant an entire culture dating back a whole century and a half to a white institution in less than a year and create an authentic experience," writes HBCU Sports contributor Chris Stevens.
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TC Taylor celebrates with his family … and all of Jackson inside Mercedes Benz Stadium
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With the news that Sports Illustrated will soon cease to exist, the magazine did prominently feature HBCUs in its history.
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FAMU has only lost three regular season conference games since joining the SWAC. All three have been to Jackson State.
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There goes the argument that HBCUs need to be in the FCS playoffs to get top recruits.
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Today's attendance is 49,670 -- a new Celebration Bowl record.
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Coach Prime wasn't the only SWAC coach to receive a Power 5 flip.
Alabama State University Coach Eddie Robinson Jr. has Flipped Ole Miss High School Commit . * Jaylen Sulton.* RB 5ft-11" 195 lbs.* St Paul's Episcopal . Mobile Alabama
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Before Kapernick there was Clem Daniels of Prairie View A&M
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Hue Jackson, who was fired as the Grambling State head coach, said Tuesday night he should have been given more than two seasons to establish the program.
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Morgan State became just the second MEAC team to beat a CAA opponent in the last 32 meetings.
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We all know the expectations are high at JSU but the job TC Taylor has done in his first-year with all the changes and challenges is commendable.
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North Carolina A&T’s Cambrea Sturgis wins 100m and 200m national titles, makes NCAA history
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Ed Reed is saying on an IG live that BCU will not move forward with him being the school's next football coach. "They don't want me here," he said.
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North Carolina A&T men’s track wins 400m and 4×400 relay championships
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Kentucky State, Virginia State considering move up to Division I to join MEAC
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FAMU beats Southern 30-16. The Rattlers move to 12-2 against SWAC opponents since moving from the MEAC.
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Sykes is the first woman to be named athletic director in FAMU history.
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Teniya “Niya” Morant, younger sister of Memphis Grizzlies all-star Ja Morant, will be headed to the SWAC.
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Y’all went from why can’t HBCUs sell out their football stadiums like PWIs do to … an HBCU gotta move a game to a PWI because its stadium is sold out. 🤔.
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The Florida A&M great will be enshrined in Canton, Ohio today at noon EST on ESPN.
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Michael B. Jordan to launch HBCU basketball tournament to showcase Black college talent
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ESPN announced Thursday that the Orange Blossom Classic featuring Jackson State and Florida A&M will be shown on ESPN2 at 2 p.m. CST on Sept. 5.
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Jackson State head coach Tomekia Reed said in the postgame press conference that she hopes the women's tournament would evolve into all neutral sites like the men's tourney so that higher seeds would "have a better chance to compete.".
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Let’s talk about how ESPN is providing inadequate (and we’re being kind) game coverage for HBCU broadcasts.
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We’re here for more mic’d up HBCU cheerleaders.
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Alabama A&M has beaten Austin Peay in the CIT. What a night for SWAC hoops!.
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After seeing a void in the media space, Olivia Antilla decided to do something about it and now is the go-to expert for all things HBCU basketball.
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The Texas Southern “Ocean of Soul” marching band was alongside Beyonce while she performed a set during the intermission of the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans Christmas Day game
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On this Selection Sunday, Tomekia Reed had a message for the NCAA tourney selection committee. #NCAATournament #MarchMadness
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Tearing down one to build up another is happening. But the football coach isn't crumbling.
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The SWAC just announced that Jackson State will not be participating in the postgame press conference. The team is heading back to campus for a team meeting.
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Florida A&M is reportedly expected to receive an official visit from No. 1 rated 2023 running back Richard Young.
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Breaking: Sources told HBCU Sports that Fred McNair informed Alcorn State that he will not remain at the school as football coach. He is expected to accept an offer to become Texas Southern's next head coach.
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Under Simmons, Florida A&M has gone 22-2 in the SWAC over the last three seasons.
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Here are HBCU players who’ve signed undrafted free-agent contracts so far. Bryan Mills, CB, North Carolina Central. Calvin Ashley, OT, Florida A&M . David Moore, IOL, Grambling State. Mac McCain, CB, North Carolina A&T.
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HBCU Sports senior editor Kendrick Marshall makes the case for why Taylor should be considered for SWAC Coach of the Year. #HBCU #HBCUSports.
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The Tigers will become the first HBCU school to play Notre Dame in football when the schools compete this fall.
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Lindsey Hunter named new head basketball coach at Mississippi Valley State
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HBCU football talent help usher in the Coach Prime era in Colorado.
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Norfolk State’s Spartan Legion voted 2019 HBCU Sports Band of the Year
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Fred McNair, Chennis Berry among top candidates for Texas Southern job
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Months after a collegiate hockey executive expressed a desire that the sport would be adopted by HBCUs, one school is reportedly making it a reality.
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Texas Southern pulled a shocker by landing McNair, one of the top coaches in HBCU football, to lead its program.
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LSU coach Kim Mulkey said she told Tomekia Reed after the game that she "ain't gonna be at Jackson State long if they don't pay you." . " Mulkey went on to say that she's "not her agent or not her best friend. I just know talent." #marchmadness.
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Bethune-Cookman athletic director Reggie Theus called Barkley's donation "a game changer" for the school.
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Every seat inside the Dunn-Oliver Acadome — all 7,500 — is sold for tonight's Hornets game against USC.
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MEAC, SWAC agree to six-year extension with ESPN to televise MEAC/SWAC Challenge and Celebration Bowl
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Florida A&M’s 30-26 win over Howard drew a 0.9 TV rating, it was the smallest audience in the eight-year history of the event.
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Jacobin Morgan, the game’s offensive MVP, talks about his performance.
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Only if you ignore that Larry Scott has led Howard to 2 MEAC championships (one outright) and a Celebration Bowl berth over the last three seasons. McCoy nor any other ex-NFL player is entitled to a head coaching job just because they played in the league and have some.
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Hue Jackson recently suggested that current HBCU coaches are qualified to be at the Power 5 level or even in pro football. “They just need the opportunity.”.
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Reed said her message to the team was "we have to fight for our institution. We have to fight for our conference. We have to continue to fight for our culture. We have to continue to knock on walls to get respect. it's time to come back and knock the walls down.".
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Three years ago when Florida A&M officially joined the SWAC, Willie Simmons confidently declared “we feel we're the best.” On Saturday, at a rain-soaked Bragg Memorial Stadium — the Rattlers literally weathered the storm to prove Simmons right with a SWAC title.
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How about we make fun of a Black city going through a water crisis to celebrate coaches being “elevated and not terminated.” Again, the author of this tweet below is Black. 🙄
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If a Power 5 school can lure the North Dakota State head coach away for an assistant job, then it's not unbelievable to think that a really successful HBCU coach won't receive overtures from schools at that level.
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Tennessee State coach Eddie George ‘honored’ to be Pro Football Hall of Fame semifinalist.
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Jackson State answered a lot of questions in a dominant MEAC/SWAC Challenge performance.
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The Jackson State band shared the Super Bowl stage with Usher. Another shining HBCU moment in front of the world.
Over the years, the Boom has shared the stage with stars like @Drake, @BoosieOfficial, @Ciara, @CedEntertainer @LilJon @BigKrit, @PastorTroyDSGN, @JonBatiste, @YoGitti, @JColeNC, @DearSilas, @NewCupid, @DukeDeuce901, and more.
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The final Ultimate HBCU Sports Division I Top 10 Poll has Florida A&M at No. 1 after its Celebration Bowl win. The Rattlers earn recognition as the 2023 Black College Football National Champions.
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The Tennessee State coach wants more fans committed to supporting the team.
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Jackson State is reportedly preparing to make a significant offer to keep Reed.
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North Carolina A&T and Florida Memorial are ESPN Band of the Year winners!.
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The former All-SWAC safety was all over the field for America's Team.
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Ex-NFL All-Pro Andre Johnson said he would be ‘open’ to Texas Southern job.
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James claimed that other pro athletes and wealthy individuals were willing to step up for Ed Reed.
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Grambling is set to announce a NIL deal for all of the school's scholarship athletes.
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The Orange Blossom Classic -- the most anticipated season opener in recent years between Florida A&M and Jackson State on Sunday afternoon -- drew an average of 700,000 viewers on ESPN 2. #HBCU #HBCUSports
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Looks like it will be Jackson State-Prairie View in the SWAC championship game in Jackson in two weeks.
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It's interesting that Colorado is being considered "Black America's team" because Deion Sanders is the coach at Colorado, even though Jackson State wasn't labeled that when he was at an actual HBCU at Jackson State housed in a city that is more than 80 percent Black.
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The second-year coach landed the most notable recruit in school and HBCU football history.
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“We deserve to be on prime time television, not ESPN3, but prime time television like everyone else,” FAMU head coach Willie Simmons said.
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Ed Reed is talking. Players are speaking out. This story has gone viral. Where is the BCU administration? Not a statement from the school at all in the hours after all this went down. The silence is … interesting.
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North Carolina A&T sends 27 track & field athletes to NCAA regionals
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The SWAC just released its order of finish as follows:.East: .1. Alcorn State .2. Bama A&M.3. Bama State.4. JSU.5. Miss. Valley.West: .1. Southern.2. Grambling.3. Prairie View.4. Ark.-Pine Bluff.5. Texas Southern.
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NC A&T won Division I ESPN Band of The Year. But was Jackson State snubbed?.
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North Carolina Central's 23-14 upset win over favored Alcorn State drew an average of 1 million viewers on ESPN Saturday night, the second-highest rated game of the Week 0 college football slate. #HBCU #HBCUSports
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It's shameful to even say that considering HBCUs have historically, systemically, and intentionally been underfunded by the state while PWIs like Colorado are economically invested in.
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Jackson State is going beat FAMU for the third time in four years to take the outight lead in the SWAC East. TC Taylor and his assistants are celebrating on the sideline in what is the biggest win for him as a head coach.
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Heading into the fall, Jackson State will bring in tow the No. 1 ranked recruiting class in the SWAC and the No. 54 class in the nation overall.
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The current JSU women’s soccer player became the first female to score a point in a Division I HBCU football game when she kicked an extra point Saturday.
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