Southern’s Lenard Tillery keeps moving forward

November 9, 2016

Always forward. It is what Pop told Luke Cage in the popular Netflix Marvel series. It’s also the philosophy that carried Southern running back Lenard Tillery from a walk-on to the Southwestern Athletic C...

Open letter to the SWAC: Fix the conference football schedule

Fred Batiste

November 8, 2016

Football, Opinion

3

Duer Sharp, Commissioner Southwestern Athletic Conference 2101 Sixth Avenue North, Suite 700 Birmingham, AL 352013 Dear Commissioner Sharp: Something is amiss in the Southwestern Athletic Con...

Cohen, Tillery Continue Run Toward MEAC, SWAC Records

Fred Batiste

September 27, 2016

Football, News

The two best running backs in HBCU football have chased history with every carry this season. For North Carolina A&T’s Tarik Cohen and Southern’s Lenard Tillery, that chase might be over sooner rather th...

Opinion: What are these STATS FCS Pollsters Seeing?

Fred Batiste

September 24, 2016

Football, Opinion

1

Pollsters for the STATS Football Championship Subdivision Top 25 poll did the right thing this week by giving defending national champion North Dakota State the top spot with all of their first-place votes. ...

Southern’s Quinn on Verge of Division I Return TD Mark

Fred Batiste

September 21, 2016

Football, News

1

Southern wide receiver/return specialist Willie Quinn is not the Division I Football Championship Division’s all-time leader in kick returns for touchdowns … yet. However, the senior All-American from Miami ...

2016 HBCU Division I Preseason Top 25 Football Players

Fred Batiste

August 8, 2016

Football

2

The 2016 season is days away from kicking off, and there are several lists and rankings floating about — making some fan bases happy while pissing off others. I, a sucker for a good preseason list myself, wa...

HBCU Media Days: Previewing Tennessee State’s 2016 Football Season

Fred Batiste

July 29, 2016

Football

In 2013, Tennessee State was a 10-4 FCS playoff team and Black College National Champion. Since then, the Tigers won 10 of their next 22 games — including a 4-6 mark (1-6 Ohio Valley) last season. Despite th...

HBCU Media Days: Previewing The 2016 MEAC Football Season

Fred Batiste

July 29, 2016

Football

As HBCU media days wind up, we are reminded of some certainties in life in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference: Tarik Cohen will be named preseason offensive player of the year and we should not expect an un...

HBCU Media Days: Previewing the 2016 CIAA Football Season

Fred Batiste

July 22, 2016

Football

Five men. One conference. No, it’s not some new risqué internet sensation. It’s the number of new coaches roaming the sidelines in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The CIAA took its turn to ...

HBCU Media Days: Previewing The 2016 SIAC Football Season

Fred Batiste

July 20, 2016

Football

The Southwestern Athletic Conference kicked off the preseason hype for HBCU football last week with its annual media day. Now, it’s the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference turn. Coaches and play...

Watch: Alcorn State Band Halftime Show vs. Georgia Tech - (Poll)

Poll: Which band won the 2018 Honda Battle of the Bands?

Vote now for the 2017 HBCU Sports Band of the Year

Poll: Which band won the Celebration Bowl halftime show, Grambling or N.C. A&T?

Poll: Which band won the MCC halftime show, Alabama A&M or Alabama State?

Poll: Which band won the halftime show, Jackson State or Southern?

Poll: Grambling State vs Prairie View, which band won the SFC halftime show?

Listen: SWAC commissioner talks about cost of basketball tournament

Winston-Salem State names Cleo Hill new head men’s basketball coach

Watch: Jimmy Fallon calls Texas Southern ‘America’s Team’ in March Madness skit

Poll: Which band won the 2018 Honda Battle of the Bands?

NC A&T’s Blue and Gold Marching Machine voted 2017 HBCU Sports Band of the Year

Here are the top 10 HBCU band halftime shows of 2017

LeBron James impressed with Shakyla Hill’s historic quadruple-double

The Beginning - Podcast Episode 1

HBCU Sports Podcast: Celebration Bowl – Tigers Win, Attendance Down, Ratings Up

HBCU Sports Podcast – Celebration Bowl Preview: Big Cats vs. ‘Pissed Off’ Angry Birds

HBCU Sports Podcast – SWAC Commish, ADs Make ‘Ass Backwards’ Decisions, SCG Recap

HBCU Sports Podcast – E7: Post Bayou Classic, Pre SWAC Football Championship Edition

HBCU Sports Podcast – E6: NCCU Wins, PV Snubbed, Bayou Classic and Alcorn Fans Cry

HBCU Sports Podcast – E5: Aggies-Eagles, ‘Gott Dammit’ and the FCS ‘Okie-Doke’

Fred Batiste