The Negro League gets major upgrade from MLB
Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin’s big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total. One hundred years ago, the National Negro Baseball League took to the diamonds
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Every season, Major League Baseball and its teams, players, managers and administrators celebrate and honor the history and legacy of the Negro Leagues, the all-Black baseball community ...
Otis ‘Coach Wash’ Washington passes away at 80
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer Legendary St. Augustine High School football coach Otis Washington passed away at the age of 80 on Friday, May 24. Five African-American NFL head coaches are fired
By Lauren Victoria Burke Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Five of the NFL’s seven African American head coaches were fired on December 31. Arizona Cardinals head coach Steve Wilks was fired after ... GSU to host 2019 and 2020 NAIA Championships
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced that Grambling State University will host the 2019 and 2020 Football National Championships at ...
First Black player in the NHL is the third inducted into sport’s hall of fame
(BlackmansStreet.Today) — William Eldon “Willie” O’Bree, the first African-Canadian man to play in the National Hockey League, was inducted November 12 into the Hockey Hall of Fame, nearly six ... Dillard University inducts athletes into new Sports Hall of Fame
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Ariel Mitchell arrived on the Dillard campus as a freshman in fall 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina decimated the campus and virtually wiped out the ... Hampton University exits MEAC for Big South Conference
By Fred Jeter Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Richmond Free Press) — There’s an upside and a downside to Hampton University’s surprise decision to leave the ...
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Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin’s big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total. One hundred years ago, the National Negro Baseball League took to the diamonds
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Every season, Major League Baseball and its teams, players, managers and administrators celebrate and honor the history and legacy of the Negro Leagues, the all-Black baseball community ...
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer Legendary St. Augustine High School football coach Otis Washington passed away at the age of 80 on Friday, May 24. Five African-American NFL head coaches are fired
By Lauren Victoria Burke Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Five of the NFL’s seven African American head coaches were fired on December 31. Arizona Cardinals head coach Steve Wilks was fired after ... GSU to host 2019 and 2020 NAIA Championships
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced that Grambling State University will host the 2019 and 2020 Football National Championships at ...
(BlackmansStreet.Today) — William Eldon “Willie” O’Bree, the first African-Canadian man to play in the National Hockey League, was inducted November 12 into the Hockey Hall of Fame, nearly six ... Dillard University inducts athletes into new Sports Hall of Fame
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Ariel Mitchell arrived on the Dillard campus as a freshman in fall 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina decimated the campus and virtually wiped out the ... Hampton University exits MEAC for Big South Conference
By Fred Jeter Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Richmond Free Press) — There’s an upside and a downside to Hampton University’s surprise decision to leave the ...
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