Sports
By: G. Napier Barnes III It’s the first week of October. By now teams are beginning to separate in their conference standings. Good teams began to float to the top. Not so good teams began to sink into “wait until next year” mode. Still a few teams will hang around hoping a win here, and […]
HBCU Scoreboard Vol. VI: The NCAA is not our Friend Read More »
By: G. Napier Barnes, III. Football is the King of intercollegiate sports especially on HBCU campuses. Most football programs are revenue generating. Some programs can even “carry” a schools’ entire athletic department. But because of Title IX, which came into effect in the early 1970’s, women’s sports are just as important on college and university
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By: G. Napier Barnes, III. One thing that really bothers me is when I meet a young person and they tell me that they are going to (put any college here) to play football (or any other sport). Naw partner, you’re NOT going to college to play a sport! You’re going to college to get
HBCU Scoreboard Vol. VI If you are good, they (the professional ranks) will find you. Read More »
By: G. Napier Barnes, III A good friend of mine once said to me, “Barnes, we (as Black people) roll a little bit differently than everyone else. There is nothing wrong with it, we just ROLL differently.” I guess that is a true statement. We do roll differently, especially when it comes to our sports.
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By: G. Napier Barnes, III The very first Black College Intercollegiate football game was played way back on December 27th 1892. The Livingstone College Blue Bears hosted Biddle College (now Johnson C Smith University) on a snowy day in western North Carolina. It has been documented that Livingstone team members put up money to buy
HBCU Scoreboard IV: Let the Games Begin Read More »
By: G. Napier Barnes III Before we get into this weeks’ topic, I would like to share with you a conversation I had last week with one of my mentors, Mr. Harold Harris of Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Harris, affectionally known as “Jug Head” is a graduate of Allen University (SIAC) located in Columbia, South Carolina.
HBCU Scoreboard Vol. III The Conference Gridiron Favorites Read More »
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has agreed on a two-year, 97.1 million contract extension, including a player option for the 2024-2025 season the Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul tells ESPN. The extension, which includes a 15% trade kicker, makes James the highest earning paper in NBA history with $532 million in guaranteed money, surpassing
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By G. Napier Barnes, III. Like most mainstream colleges and universities, HBCUs participate in intercollegiate athletic competition. Under the guidance of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools are grouped based on size (student enrollment) resources (amount of money)and the region of the country that it is serving into conferences. History tells us that for
HBCU Scoreboard Vol. 2 The Athletic Conferences Read More »
Coco Gauff is making history in the tennis world. The 18-year-old beat Italy’s Martina Trevisan 6-3 and 6-1 in the French Open semifinals in Paris on Thursday, June 2, 2022, securing her spot in the finals. Gauff is now the youngest French Open finalist in 21 years, and will face the No. 1 player in
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Brooklyn Nets point guard, Kyree Irving just made women’s history month a little sweeter by hiring his stepmother, Shetellia Riley as his new agent. Riley is reportedly the only black woman currently representing an NBA player, according to sports reporter Shams Charania. Irving hasn’t had a professional representative since he fired Roc Nation in July
