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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Saint Augustine’s College president Dianne B. Suber and Fox News reporter Kelly Wright.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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