North Carolina A&T delivered an upset Saturday, defeating a nationally ranked team to secure its first victory of the 2026 season. North Carolina A&T knocked off Rhode Island 22-18 at Truist Stadium in Greensboro, ending an 0-4 start with a significant CAA
By Janelle R. Baker, Ph.D. Every fall, small college football programs, including HBCU programs, sign contracts to get blown out by the sport’s biggest budgets, and everyone calls it smart business. Guaranteed money, what fans and coaches call “money games,” keeps HBCU
Six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan made a huge investment in HBCU life in Atlanta. Jordan and the Jordan Brand supported an initiative that birthed the Morehouse Multimedia Center. The center opened on Wednesday, September 23. Jordan helped open the center by committing
Students attending HBCUs today rely on comprehensive campus resources to stay enrolled. A new coaching framework provides insight into boosting enrollment, persistence and completion. One-on-one coaching helped stopped-out adult learners return to an HBCU at more than two times the national average and
The 2026 HBCU football season is loaded with returning production across the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Alabama A&M will face Howard on Saturday at the MEAC/SWAC Challenge in Atlanta to kick off the Black college football season.
The NCAA has issued a four-year show-cause order against former North Carolina A&T assistant men’s basketball coach Patrick Herron after determining that he violated sports betting rules while working for the university. According to a negotiated resolution released Tuesday, Herron placed at
Johnson C. Smith (JCSU) football has spent the past four seasons building its HBCU football program “Brick x Brick.” Against Fayetteville State, the Golden Bulls keep finding out exactly how much that foundation can hold. On Saturday, the answer came on fourth-and-four.
South Carolina State football entered Saturday’s in-state showdown with Furman carrying the title of defending HBCU national champion. The Bulldogs left Greenville looking like a team prepared to defend it. No. 18 South Carolina State jumped out to a two-touchdown lead, survived
Colorado coach Deion Sanders recently became one of the biggest public supporters of the Protect College Sports Act and even filmed a new political advertisement endorsing this big pending political football in Congress. In the advertisement, Sanders said this legislation “keeps men’s and women’s sports strong”
Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin is getting rave reviews for his work on NBC to the start of the season, and now he’s making a major HBCU move. According to a report by HBCU Gameday, Tomlin will deliver the keynote address at the 2026 North
