Sports

The burning questions on the minds of many HBCU sports observers since Florida A&M University announced two weeks ago that it was leaving the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference next season to join the Southwestern Athletic […]

SP Editor The defections from the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference continued last week as the Florida A&M University Board of Trustees voted unanimously Thursday to move to the league’s HBCU NCAA Div. I sister conference, […]

By LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor Photo Caption: “The reality is a lot of these coaches have been able to create generational wealth. Their grandkids’ kids are gonna be able to live a prosperous life because […]

By LUT WILLIAmS BCSP Editor In many ways, AZEEZ Communications could not have picked a better time than the fall of the 1994-95 season to launch the Black college SportS page. Historically Black Colleges and […]

By LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor Between 1967 and 1976, a span of ten years, a whopping 549 players from America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities were taken in the NFL Draft, an average of nearly […]

By LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor In last week’s BCSP, we charted the first HBCU player ever taken in the NFL Draft – North Carolina A&T running back Robert “Stonewall” Jackson in 1950 – up through […]

The selection of Tennessee State offensive lineman Lachavious Simmons as the only black college player in last week’s 2020 NFL Draft evokes memories of a bygone time when HBCU players were much more prevalent in […]

By LUT WILLIAmS BCSP Editor PhotoCaption: Lachavious Simmons 6-5, 315, Offensive Tackle, Tennessee State It was looking bleak but late in Saturday’s final rounds of the 2020 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears did it. They […]

SP Editor At 6-8, 308 pounds with arms that reach 36-plus inches and hands that are 11-plus inches wide, former South Carolina State offensive lineman Alex Taylor is hard to miss. And it’s unlikely he’ll […]

Clarence “Big House” Gaines is. When Gaines, the legendary former Winston-Salem State University basketball coach and Kentucky native, was honored at a 2004 University of Kentucky basketball game at Rupp Arena – the sprawling UK […]