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One of the newer HBCU Classic football games is ready for Year Two. The Frederick Douglass HBCU Classic, which debuted in 2024, has set a date for its second annual game and announced the participating teams. Central State will return for its second Frederick Douglass Classic appearance. At the same time, SIAC foe Lane College […]
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As we were wrapping up our HBCU Sports Roundtable show Friday, word got out that the CIAA board of directors voted to reinstate baseball as a conference-sponsored sport. As someone who started watching baseball on his grandmother’s black-and-white TV in the summer of 1989, I was excited to learn that an HBCU conference was bringing
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For the first time in their more than 100-year history, the Tuskegee football team will play a night game at Cleve Abbott Memorial Stadium. Tuskegee announced Thursday morning that its Saturday, Sept. 6, home game against SIAC opponent Central State will be played under newly installed lights at Abbott Memorial Stadium. This marks the first time the
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A former Super Bowl MVP will be trusted with developing an HBCU football team’s receiving core. Santonio Holmes, MVP of Super Bowl XLIII for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was announced as Central State’s new wide receivers coach Monday afternoon. Holmes will join new head coach Tony Carter in trying to lead the Marauders to their first
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For the past three seasons, an HBCU men’s basketball All-Star game has been a complimentary piece of the NCAA Division I men’s Final Four weekend in the host city. This April, in conjunction with Final Four weekend, the women will have their chance. HBCU All-Stars, LLC announced earlier this week that the inaugural HBCU Women’s
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On Feb. 17, 2025, commissioners from the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and Southwestern Athletic Conference sent a united, pressing appeal to the Congressional Black Caucus for legislative support. The letter details critical challenges HBCUs face in the evolving landscape of collegiate athletics. In their letter, the commissioners expressed
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As Patrick Mahomes prepares for an attempt at his third straight Super Bowl championship, the Kansas City Chiefs all-world quarterback took time out to express a desire for HBCU football players to get more looks in the NFL. “I show love because those guys have talent,” said Mahomes, whose foundation partners with the annual HBCU
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As of press time, nine HBCU athletic directors and administrations are Christmas shopping for a brand-new football coach to put under the tree for 2025. As with all expensive shopping adventures, the pros and cons must be weighed heavily, not just by the universities themselves but also by the coaches. So, at HBCU Sports, we’ve
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This HBCU football season has been a feast for quite a few schools, so it’s fitting on Thanksgiving weekend that we have three HBCU squads playing postseason football. We also have a couple of classics and a make-up game, so that’s reason enough to take a break from holiday prep and look into the Chris-tal
HBCU Chris-tal ball: Giving thanks for postseason football Read More »
The HBCU football Division I schedule winds down for the most part in Week 13, but a pair of D-II schools have entered the second season and are looking to make some waves in the playoffs. As we look into the Chris-tal ball (one time for senior editor Kendrick Marshall coming up with that play
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