With a month remaining before the start of the 2025 HBCU football season, Edward Waters head coach Toriano Morgan resigned.
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A former Florida A&M University (FAMU) Rattler defensive back has built an impressive coaching legacy in South Florida, capturing multiple high school football titles over the past two decades.
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Mo Williams is in the process of making his mark as an HBCU men’s basketball coach, and now the Jackson native can add hall of famer to his list of achievements.
On Monday, the WNBA announced it’s adding three new franchises, bringing the league to a record 18 teams. Cleveland will begin play in 2028, Detroit joins in 2029, and Philadelphia will tip off in 2030. This follows the addition of the Golden State Valkyries this season and two previously announced expansion teams set to launch next year in Toronto, Canada, and Portland, Oregon.
HBCU players, selected by a committee that includes Hall of Fame outfielder Ken Griffey Jr., representatives from MLB, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and team scouts, will get the opportunity to rep their school pride and showcase their talent.
“The conferences are starting to do new deals with ESPN,” Symonds reflected in his annual chat with HBCU Legends. “We’re no longer so much the ‘second fiddle’ as we started in the beginning of this game, and that started to open up doors where a lot of these classics have now seen what we’re doing.”
Sixteen years ago today, an HBCU legend and NFL great was tragically taken away from the sports world.
Meet Michele Samuels, the first Black woman to be named “Madame President” of the prestigious Detroit Golf Club.
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