The Protect College Sports Act cleared the U.S. Senate by a bipartisan 77-22 vote Monday, moving one of the most consequential attempts to reshape college athletics to the House of Representatives. Much of the national conversation has focused on the Power Four,
Mississippi Valley State will not play a home basketball game until Jan. 9. By then, the HBCU will have played 16 games, crossed the country, and faced some of college basketball’s biggest programs. The road stretch could bring in close to $1
Legendary broadcaster Ralph Cooper of KCOH has been voted as the 2026 inductee into the Houston Baseball Media Wall of Honor, the Houston Astros announced Friday. The Astros will honor Cooper in a pregame ceremony at Daikin Park during the 2027 regular
There’s a new number one team in this week’s Division II HBCU Black College Football Poll after a sequence of events that started on Thursday night. Kentucky State is your new No. 1 team after Benedict fell as the last undefeated Division
BY Mary Clare Jalonick, Joey Cappelletti, Eddie Pells The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports, an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between
Big Tex overlooked Prairie View A&M holding off Grambling State for a 21-14 victory Saturday night at the State Fair Classic in the Cotton Bowl. If they win this classic again, the committee may consider erecting a statue of a Black Panther
The “Battle of the Real HU” college football game between Hampton University and Howard University is set for Saturday, Oct. 3 at Audi Field in Washington, D.C., with kickoff set for 3 p.m. ET. Formerly known as the “Truth and Service Classic,”
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
