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Minority Coach Watch: Black Head Coaches Lead Three Teams in Top 25 Games This Week

This week, Kevin Sumlin steered the University of Houston into the Associated Press’ Top 25 rankings at No. 23. The third-year head coach has guided 2-0 Houston to lopsided victories against visiting Texas State and UTEP.

September 16, 2010

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Black Coaches Help Launch Groundbreaking College Football Season

The 2010 college football season has more Blacks leading Football Bowl Subdivision teams as head coaches than ever before.

September 9, 2010

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New Maryland Athletic Director Anderson Sets High Goals for Terps

During an introduction as Maryland’s new athletic director, Kevin Anderson thanked his predecessor for putting the school in the upper echelon of the nation’s sports programs.

September 7, 2010

First African-American Hired as University of Maryland Athletic Director

The University of Maryland named Kevin Anderson as its new athletic director Saturday. Anderson previously held the same job for 5 1/2 years at Army.

September 6, 2010

The Joyners: An HBCU Basketball Coaching Dynasty

For Edward Joyner Jr. (pictured), the family business takes place on the hardwood and is rooted in historically Black colleges and universities, where Edward Jr.; his father, Edward; his uncle, Stephen; and his cousin, Stephen Jr., are all head basketball coaches.

September 1, 2010

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Miami’s Randy Shannon Enters New Season With Confidence

A new four-year contract was hammered out in May, giving University of Miami head football coach Randy Shannon some measure of security. And with a depth chart that’s finally loaded to his liking, Shannon thinks he might have the kind of team he needs to get the Hurricanes thinking about winning college football’s biggest prize.

August 31, 2010

FBI Tracked Desegregation Suit Against Alabama’s Bear Bryant

Fans weren’t the only ones watching Alabama football between 1969 and 1971. The FBI, apparently with the approval of director J. Edgar Hoover, was secretly keeping an eye on a civil rights lawsuit filed by Blacks against legendary coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant during the same period.

August 23, 2010

Ga. State Starts New Program in Tough Economy

Georgia State is one of six institutions, including South Alabama and Notre Dame College, launching football programs this year, amid a tough fundraising environment.

August 22, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Saint Augustine’s Dianne Suber Urges News Media Confidence by Black Colleges

The Saint Augustine’s College president says public relations is as important to a college as any other campus initiative, and her school has positive national television exposure to prove it.

August 19, 2010

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Coaching Diversity Slowly Rising at FBS Schools

First-year head college football coaches Joker Phillips and Charlie Strong are among a dozen Black head coaches at FBS schools, triple the number of Black head coaches two years ago.

August 12, 2010

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Mississippi Flag Could Hurt Bid for SEC Baseball Tourney

The Confederate symbol on the Mississippi flag could hurt the state’s bid to host the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament starting in 2012 because some people find the emblem offensive, a top conference official said Tuesday.

August 11, 2010

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College Track Coach and Former Olympian Antonio Pettigrew Found Dead

St. Augustine’s College alumnus Antonio Pettigrew, a sprinter stripped of an Olympic gold medal after admitting to doping, was found dead in the backseat of his locked car near Raleigh, N.C. early Tuesday.

August 10, 2010

Antonio Pettigrew was an alumnus of St. Augustine’s College, a historically Black college in Raleigh, N.C.

Cost of Knight Academic Center for Athletes Raises Concern

The University of Oregon academic center for athletes that opened in January, paid for entirely by benefactor Phil Knight, cost about twice as much per square foot as Portland’s priciest condo buildings, according to documents released to The Oregonian.

August 9, 2010

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Alabama Football Coach Unleashes Attack on Sports Agents

Three SEC teams—Florida, Alabama and South Carolina—are investigating allegations involving improper contact with an agent. Alabama coach Nick Saban and SEC commissioner Mike Slive both say it is time for a change to NCAA rules governing agents.

July 21, 2010

Damon Evans Resigns as UGA Athletic Director Following DUI Arrest

On Monday, University of Georgia president Michael Adams said that Damon Evans resigned from his position as the school’s athletic director, less than a week after Evans was arrested on a DUI charge in Atlanta.

July 5, 2010

Is Baseball Striking Out With Blacks?

During the 2010 College World Series, just eight of 269 baseball players on competing teams were African-American. Those numbers are disturbing to those who believe African-Americans have largely turned away from the sport.

June 27, 2010

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HBCUs Struggle With Lag in Academic Progress by Student Athletes

The NCAA’s comprehensive academic reform measure, the Academic Progress Rate (APR), has—over its six-year existence—consistently meted out penalties to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) at a disproportionate rate for Division I institutions.

June 24, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Knight Commission Blasts Runaway Spending in College Sports

With spending on big-time college sports continuing to escalate, a group of university presidents and campus leaders says it’s past time for more of that money to wind up in the classroom.

June 17, 2010