Gateway Classic founder Earl Wilson Jr. passes torch to son

In a bustling kitchen, Earl Wilson Jr. searched for a little elbow room to cut the cakes for his community Thanksgiving dinner last Thursday. One of the women in the kitchen looked at him and said, “Don’t mess with the cake, Earl.” She shooed him out back to the barbeque pit. According to his apron, which read “Earl, BBQ King,” that’s where he belonged. The St. Louis Gateway Classic Sports Foundation, which Wilson founded, hosts a dinner for the needy every November. That’s in addition to investing $2.6 million in scholarship funds to send more than a hundred students to college during the organization’s 16 years.

The foundation has invested even more in assisting youth-related programs. Throughout the year, it sponsors its namesake HBCU football game, an amateur boxing tournament, high school basketball match-ups, a scholarship golf tournament, the Miss Gateway Classic Scholarship pageant and a local Walk of Fame inauguration. “If you asked me what Gateway Classic is about, I’d say it’s about giving back,” Wilson said. The foundation doesn’t receive grants, he said. About 80 percent of the funding is raised through ticket sales at the sporting events. He runs the foundation by a mantra of self-sufficiency and integrity. “Don’t sell out, don’t cop out, stay the course,” he said. “The course needs people with commitment.”

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Norfolk State alumna becomes agent for Olympic athletes

This is where it all started. That single thought played in Kimberly N. Holland's mind as she sat in the Southwest DeKalb High School (Atlanta)gymnasium, watching Angelo Taylor and Terrence Trammell. The athletes, bound for the Summer Olympics, had returned to their alma mater for a pep rally staged on their behalf.

As the band played, the cheerleaders cheered and Taylor and Trammell gave speeches, Holland couldn't help but remember her own start as a sports agent, a field still dominated by men. It's not the profession she envisioned for herself. She wanted to be an attorney, to fight for social change and justice, to give voice to those who had none. After high school, she hit the track running, so to speak. She graduated from Norfolk State University, worked for Sen. Edward Kennedy, then moved to Atlanta.


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She spent two years here at LaFace Records before returning to Virginia, where she enrolled at a Christian school, the Regent University School of Law.

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Representing Track and Field Olympians Walter Dix, Angelo Taylor, Terrence Trammell, Shawn Crawford, LaShawn Merrit, Bernard Williams, Tyree Washington and Bolota Asmerom, the young sister Holland is headed for sports management super stardom. It's absolutely great that she has broken into the sports management field with superior capability to represent our top athletes in their contract negotiations, branding and product endorsement deals.

Ms. Holland, a native Washingtonian, appears to have exceptional skills --entrepreneurial, solid communicator and negotiator, experienced deal maker, christian foundation, connected and committed to our best interests. Way to go Spartans! Another glass ceiling broken. Behold the Green and Gold...

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Jericho to broadcast FAMU football

Florida A&M University announced today it has signed a contract with the Black College Sports Network, a division of Jericho Broadcast Networks, Inc. This makes Jericho the official broadcaster of Rattler sports for radio, television and the Internet.

In all likelihood it also means that Keith Miles, the voice of the Rattlers for more than two decades, is out. Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but Jericho will provide radio and Internet video coverage of all FAMU football games, as well as most basketball games and other sports events.

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Florida Justice to speak at Bethune Cookman University AKA Celebration

Photo: Honorable Peggy A. Quince, Florida Supreme Court Justice

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy A. Quince is the scheduled speaker Sunday at Bethune-Cookman University for a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Appointed in 1999, Quince is the first black woman to serve on the state's highest court and the third female justice in the court's history. She is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Howard University is also where the sorority was established June 15, 1908.

The Centennial Founders' Day celebration begins at 3 p.m. at the Center for Civic Engagement. Sunday's program is free and open to the public. Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-letter organization established by black college-trained women. The sorority has more than 49,000 active members.

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Justice Peggy A. Quince was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1948. She is married to Fred L. Buckine, attorney at law, and they have two daughters, Peggy LaVerne, a graduate of Florida A & M University, and Laura LaVerne, a graduate of the University of Central Florida. Justice Quince graduated in 1970 from Howard University with a B.S. Degree in Zoology; she received her J.D. Degree from the Catholic University of America in 1975.

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