Sanders’ impact on HBCUs, HBCU athletics, and HBCU culture was undeniable and that deserves to be respected. He fought to provide new resources to his players at Jackson State, which included personal sacrifices like donating half his salary to that cause. His personality, bravado, and ability to win also brought extensive exposure to Jackson State and HBCUs across the country. Many major media outlets started creating HBCU verticals during Sanders’ time at Jackson State and networks like ESPN even sent College GameDay, their flagship college football show, to cover a couple of HBCU games during Sanders’ tenure including a game in Jackson this year against Southern University.
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In 1991 Dillard High School track phenom Jonathan Carter completed one of the most successful, electric and captivating athletic careers in Broward County history. Not only was he the Class 4-A state champion in the 100 meters, he also led the team to a second place finish at the state meet which catapulted him to accept a scholarship to FSU where he became a six- time All-American in the 100 and 200 meters and four by one relay.
Black Ambition supports Black and Latino and Latina entrepreneurs with a series of prizes to underwrite strong ideas. It was founded by music artist and philanthropist Pharrell Williams, whose No. 1 hit ‘Happy’ made him a household name. Black Ambition’s pitch competition is critical for applicants who undergo three months of inspection and interviews with partnered entrepreneurs and senior business leaders.
An athletic department administrator at a school in the Southeastern Conference, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “Once the NCAA lost in court, they basically pulled out of Afghanistan. There’s no rules. It’s crazy.”
The Westside Gazette discovered that Dillard High graduate, Courtney Parsons, a three time state champion who played under the late, great Marcia Pinder, is an assistant basketball coach at her alma mater, Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In a recent interview it became profoundly clear that we were speaking to a rising star in the coaching realm with an incredibly high ceiling.
Florida A&M and Bethune Cookman are two teams headed in opposite directions, even their records are exact opposite. FAMU sporting an 8-2 record and BCU sitting at 2-8. While BCU seemed to have the Rattlers number in recent years, the Rattlers have returned to their roots and seem to have turned the tables on the Wildcats winning the game last year 46-21 after the Wildcats reeled off nine consecutive wins.
Selection Sunday turned into a solemn Sunday on the campus of Florida A&M. Less than 24 hours after the Rattlers defeated the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats 41-20 in the 2022 Florida Blue Florida Classic, there was a late hit…and it came from the NCAA FCS Selection Committee. Florida A&M, by most accounts, was expected to make the 24-team field of the FCS playoffs for the second consecutive year, but instead it was snubbed from the field leaving a cloud of wonder, confusion, and disappointment.
Carter Bonas, who is autistic, named his apparel Spectrum Golf, www.CartersSpectrumGolf.com because he ranks high on the Autism Spectrum Scale. He decided to showcase his apparel at the PGA Show 2022, which is one of the largest golf merchandising shows in the nation. That set off a tsunami of media coverage. His first interview was LIVE with the GOLF CHANNEL. That led to interviews with the PGA, PGA Magazine, Golf Digest, Golflife.TV and many more. https://www.cartersspectrumgolf.com/book-carter—press.html#/
2022 Florida (FHSAA) Class 3-M Football Championship Playoff
The man accused of killing three members of the 2022 Cavaliers football team and injuring two others on campus Sunday night (Nov. 13) in Charlottesville, Virginia, is in custody. Former UVA walk-on football player Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr. has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in commission of a felony.