Sports
BCSP year 30 begins this week
LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor This week begins the 30th year of publication of the Black college SportS page. Over the span of nearly three decades we’ve seen and covered a lot in the HBCU landscape. […]
Sports
Sports
NCCU, Howard expected to battle for MEAC honors
LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor NORFOLK, Va. – The defending co- champion Eagles of North Carolina Central are the preseason favorite to win the six-team Mid Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) football title in 2023. Head Coach […]
Sports
Benedict picked to repeat in SIAC
LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor Benedict is the new king of Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football. The Tigers are coming off an 8-0 2022 campaign against league opponents and its first conference title in history and […]
Sports
HBCU SWINGMAN CLASSIC GOES OFF WITHOUT A HITCH
SEATTLE, Wa. – The inaugural HBCU Swingman All-Star Classic is in the books Friday after giving some of the best and brightest in HBCU baseball a night to shine. Junior Alabama State infielder Randy Flores […]
Religion
AJ McCarron, youngsters warm up for football camp by shopping
By Mark Inabinett Twenty youngsters went on a shopping spree with St. Louis Battlehawks quarterback AJ McCarron and members of the Mobile Police Department and Mobile Fire-Rescue Department at Academy Sports + Outdoors on Airport Boulevard in Mobile […]
Sports
Three HBCU baseball players make Team USA roster
North Carolina A&T right-handed sophomore power pitcher Xavier Meachem, Southern junior righthander Nicholas Wilson and celebrated Alabama State sophomore lefthander Omar Melendez represented America over the weekend as members of the USA Baseball collegiate team. […]
City News
Former Lee-Huntsville Standout Kobe Brown Chosen in NBA Draft
By Howard Koplowitz Above: Lee’s Kobe Brown shoots against Albertville during a high school sub-regional basketball game on Feb. 12, 2019, at Lee High School in Huntsville.(Bob Gathany/preps@AL.com) After 21 seasons leading the boys’ basketball […]
Sports
Statue of “Grandfather of Black Basketball” unveiled
by ED HILL Special to the BCSP It was only fitting that Edwin Bancroft “E. B.” Henderson be honored with a statue in his likeness. Regarded as the “Grandfather of Black Basketball,” Henderson was honored […]
National News
‘Just Mercy’ author Bryan Stevenson says 30-hour window will not fix Alabama execution problems
By Mike Cason Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of “Just Mercy,” the story of an innocent man on Alabama’s death row, said a new rule allowing more time for executions will […]
Obituaries
Ray Lewis III, son of NFL Hall of Famer, and former Virginia Union player passes
Ray Lewis III, former Virginia Union defensive back and son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Ray Lewis Jr. has passed away. Mark James, Lewis’s coach at VUU, posted about his death. “Two RIP posts […]