Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
DENTON, Texas -- Eric Tramiel had 15 points and George Odufuwa added 11 points and 11 rebounds for a double-double as North Texas beat Jackson State 68-58 Tuesday night.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
North Texas head coach Johnny Jones knew beating Jackson State was going to be a whole lot tougher than it appeared as if it might be on Tuesday. The Tigers came into the night having lost their first three games of the season, only it wasn’t your average three teams that had knocked off JSU. Try national power Memphis and Alabama. The only reprieve the Tigers enjoyed in their first three games...
Football news from a chick™ (Free subscription) | yesterday
Denver Broncos rookie cornerback D.J. Johnson takes part in drills during football training camp at the Broncos headquarters in the Denver suburb of Englewood, Colo. , on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009. D.J. Johnson doesn't know whether he has a long-term future with the New York Giants. He is sure he will be with the Giants at least through Thursday night, when they play his former team. The rookie cornerback...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: News , Race and Civil Rights Our nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have produced some of this country's greatest leaders and innovators. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Oprah Winfrey, Branford Marsalis and Alice Walker are just a few of the great Americans to emerge from schools, such as Grambling , Spelman and Howard University . Originally founded in the 1800s...
Blog for Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Advance Voting for the December 1 runoff starts today! And here's your handy voting info:Advance voting starts Monday, November 23, 2009, and runs through Wednesday, November 25, 2009. The hours of Advance voting are 8:30am to 7:00pm. Find locations for...
Terra Sigillata (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Last Monday, Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi dropped a bombshell in his new budget proposal. From the Jackson Free Press : In his Nov. 16 budget proposal, Barbour announced that the state was facing a $715 million budget shortfall in fiscal year 2011 and another $500 million shortage in fiscal year 2012. In addition to merging the state's HBCUs, he suggested many draconian budget cuts in response...
Heismanpundit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The following teams from BCS conferences would not currently be bowl eligible were it not for wins over FCS opponents (opponent in parantheses): SEC Tennessee (Western Kentucky) South Carolina (South Carolina State) Georgia (Tennessee Tech) You will hear a lot of bragging about how the SEC has 10 bowl eligible teams this year. As you can see, three of them [...]
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past.
home (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Yet some more signings D1 Cincinnati signed four players 6-2 ShaQuanda Wiggins of Thornton Township & Jefferson College 13 ppg 5-10 G Kayla Cook of South Webster, OH 6-2 C Jeanise Randolph of Thornton Fractional North, IL 13.4 ppg 6-1 Tiffany Turner (Marlton Cherokee, NJ 11 ppg Jackson State has signed two players 5-10 F Ayanna Hardy-Fuller of Chicago Morgan Park, IL 15 ppg 5-8 G Ekwara Ndongo...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Tim Buckley threw two first-quarter touchdown passes and Alcorn State made them stand up in a 14-7 victory over Jackson State in both team's season finale on Saturday.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
JACKSON, Miss. -- Tim Buckley threw two first-quarter touchdown passes and Alcorn State made them stand up in a 14-7 victory over Jackson State in both team's season finale on Saturday.
The Debate Link (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A big part of Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's (R- Wildly Corrupt ) budget plan involves closing down a bunch of HBCUs, consolidating them with Jackson State University. Leaders of the schools facing merger are strongly opposed to the idea. See the Field Negro for more. He observes: "And here I thought republicans wanted blacks to be educated. Why doesn't he merge Southern Mississippi into...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal
It's My Mind (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This is news! Alcorn State and Jackson State Universities are rather well known HBCUs. Can't really say that about Mississippi Valley State (MSVU), the only thing I know about that school is that I have two relatives as alumnus from that school. This almost reminds me of a story out of Georgia , where the state government there wanted to merge public HBCUs not with other public HBCUs, but with other...
Roll 'Bama Roll (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Newcomers help Grant claim first Alabama win Box score and play-by-play Behind 23 points in 24 minutes off the bench by freshman Tony Mitchell, the Alabama men's basketball team evened their record at 1-1 last night, securing Anthony Grant's first win as Alabama head coach. The Tide only led by five at the break, but pulled away in the second half thanks to Mitchell and fellow newcomer Charvez Davis....
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