WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina - Now that I’ve received a copy of the Winston-Salem State’s new football media guide I guess that means the season can’t be that far away. While I still have a week of vacation next week that won’t stop the Rams and coach Connell Maynor from starting practice on Aug. 9. The players will report for physicals on Aug. 7.
Big things are expected from the Rams, who are coming off a 13-1 record, the best in school history. It’s been known for years that the Rams’ fans love to travel and they will be put to the test this season. One of those tests will be showing up to take on Morehouse in the Cleveland Football Classic on Sept. 15.
That will be the Rams second game of the season and the WSSU athletics department is making a big push to get fans to buy tickets. The benefit of purchasing the tickets through the WSSU ticket office is the department gets to keep a percentage of tickets sold by WSSU.
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Friday, August 3, 2012
NCCU Eagles look for speed, strength in preseason drills
DURHAM, North Carolina - The Eagles were preparing for warmups Thursday evening at O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium when they spotted their leader heading toward the field. “Frazier, what’s up, baby!” a player yelled. “Where’s the horn, baby?” another player asked.
N.C. Central head coach Henry Frazier III returned the love. “What’s up?” Frazier said. The coach wasn’t clutching his trademark bullhorn, but that big smile of his was there. The day was a long time coming for Frazier and the Eagles after going 2-9 in 2011, the team’s fourth straight losing season.
It was the first day of practice for NCCU’s second season as a Football Championship Subdivision team. The Eagles flew around during a practice that started at a fast pace with the quarterbacks taking turns running offenses. One set of guys would run a play, and then another group would follow in rapid succession.
“I thought tempo was really high,” Frazier said.
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N.C. Central head coach Henry Frazier III returned the love. “What’s up?” Frazier said. The coach wasn’t clutching his trademark bullhorn, but that big smile of his was there. The day was a long time coming for Frazier and the Eagles after going 2-9 in 2011, the team’s fourth straight losing season.
It was the first day of practice for NCCU’s second season as a Football Championship Subdivision team. The Eagles flew around during a practice that started at a fast pace with the quarterbacks taking turns running offenses. One set of guys would run a play, and then another group would follow in rapid succession.
“I thought tempo was really high,” Frazier said.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Mike Davis: Former Indiana, UAB Coach Named Interim at Texas Southern
HOUSTON, Texas - Former Indiana and UAB head coach Mike Davis has resurfaced with an interim position at Texas Southern. Davis, who led Indiana to the 2002 National Championship game, has accepted the position after parting ways with UAB this past spring.“It’s a great opportunity for me to get back into coaching,” Davis said in an interview with KRIV-TV in Houston. “I’ve researched Texas Southern’s program.
Davis, who spent six seasons at each Indiana and UAB, led the Hoosiers to four NCAA Tournament appearances. During his tenure at UAB, the Blazers won 20+ games on four consecutive occasions, but managed to qualify for the Big Dance only once (2011).
UAB finished the 2011-12 season at 15-16 overall, a mark that ultimately led to the school moving forward with ...
UMES track star Guion-Firmin in London for Olympics
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PRINCESS ANNE, Maryland -- Sprinter Lenora Guion-Firmin, a rising senior on the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's track team, will have one heckuva story about her summer vacation to share when she returns to campus this fall.
Guion-Firmin, who is from Martinque, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, qualified for France's 2012 team that will compete in the London Olympic games that begin July 27. She is a member of the French 4x400-meter relay team.
She earned a silver medal July 1 in the 4x400-meter relay in the 2012 European Athletics Championships. Running the event's second leg, Guion-Firmin helped her teammates finish with a time of 3:25.49 behind Ukraine (3:25.07) and earned her nation its best finish in the women's track competiton held in Helsinki, Finland.
"This is such a privilege for (Guion-Firmin) to represent her country," UMES head coach Ernest Barrett said. "It is every track athletes dream to run in the Olympic Games."
Guion-Firmin represented UMES in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships in June. Her 52.65-second time in the 400-meter dash earned her NCAA first-team All-American honors. She is the only female athlete in UMES history to receive All-American recognition in indoor and outdoor track.
She produced a personal best time -- and school record -- of 52.20 seconds in the 400-meter event during a Princeton, N.J. meet in mid-May of this year. Guion-Firmin also holds the UMES record of 23.49 seconds in the 200-meter dash. In the outdoor track season she ran a team's best 12.07-second time in the 100-meter dash.
Guion-Firmin finished first or second in eight events during the 2012 collegiate outdoor track season, including the NCAA Championships. She had four first-place finishes, two in the 400-meter dash and one in the 100 and 200-meter events.
"Her points alone helped elevate UMES into the top 60 track and field programs in the country," Barrett said.
Her Olympic teammates in the 4x400-meter relay are: Phara Anacharsis, Marie Gayot and Floria Guei. Guion-Firmin is making her first appearance for the French team.
Preliminary heats will be run Aug. 10 -- three days after Guion-Firmin's 21st birthday -- and the medal race will be held the following day, Aug. 11, according to the official London Olympics' website.
Bonne chance, Lenora!
Kynard, Owens will team up in college at Bethune-Cookman
TOLEDO, Ohio - Tony Kynard and Clemmye Owens have been teammates on the basketball court since junior high school. The Rogers seniors apparently plan to continue serving as backcourt mates beyond their final season wearing a Rams uniform. Both gave verbal commitments on Monday to attend Bethune-Cookman University after graduating from high school next spring.
"We've been playing basketball together since the seventh grade, so we decided to go to the same school," said Kynard, the 6-foot-1 point guard who averaged 13.9 points and 8.2 assists during his junior season.
Owens, a six-foot shooting guard, pumped in a team-high 18.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per contest in his junior campaign. "I liked the school, and it seems like it's the best [college] program for me," Owens said. "Their style of play fits me."
Kynard and Owens, who have been key members of the Rams backcourt the last two seasons, made their decision to verbally commit to Bethune-Cookman during a recent unofficial visit to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference university. Toledo native and former Tiffin University coach Rodney Martin is an assistant coach on Bethune-Cookman's coaching staff.
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"We've been playing basketball together since the seventh grade, so we decided to go to the same school," said Kynard, the 6-foot-1 point guard who averaged 13.9 points and 8.2 assists during his junior season.
Owens, a six-foot shooting guard, pumped in a team-high 18.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per contest in his junior campaign. "I liked the school, and it seems like it's the best [college] program for me," Owens said. "Their style of play fits me."
Kynard and Owens, who have been key members of the Rams backcourt the last two seasons, made their decision to verbally commit to Bethune-Cookman during a recent unofficial visit to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference university. Toledo native and former Tiffin University coach Rodney Martin is an assistant coach on Bethune-Cookman's coaching staff.
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Norfolk State's Goldberg named one of top 44 kickers in country
NORFOLK, Virginia - We'll discuss all the questions the Norfolk State football team faces heading into training camp here for the next few weeks (key questions will be in The Pilot on Monday), but for the moment, let's discuss somewhere the Spartans can feel secure.Everett Goldberg was named a finalist for the Fred Mitchell Award watch list on Thursday, which is given to the top college kicker in the country at all levels. Ryan Estep, an All-American last year, was a finalist for the award last year.
If there's any area NSU seems set heading into ...
Title target is prime story line as S.C. State players report
ORANGEBURG, South Carolina - After a one-week break following the completion of summer workouts, the South Carolina State football team is headed back to campus today.
Just over 90 returning and new players are expected to report to the team before the start of preseason practice at 7 p.m. Friday at the Oliver C. Dawson Stadium practice field. It will be the first of 20 practices planned by head coach Buddy Pough, entering his 11th seasons at the helm of his alma mater.
The Bulldogs, ranked 24th in the preseason by the College Sportings News Preseason Football Championship Subdivision Top 25 rankings, head into the Aug. 30 season-opener in Atlanta against Georgia State with a myriad of story lines: ‘Bulldog’ empire strikes back
To a man, the players want nothing more than to add a 15th Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship year to the “Wall of Champions” outside Oliver C. Dawson Stadium
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Just over 90 returning and new players are expected to report to the team before the start of preseason practice at 7 p.m. Friday at the Oliver C. Dawson Stadium practice field. It will be the first of 20 practices planned by head coach Buddy Pough, entering his 11th seasons at the helm of his alma mater.
The Bulldogs, ranked 24th in the preseason by the College Sportings News Preseason Football Championship Subdivision Top 25 rankings, head into the Aug. 30 season-opener in Atlanta against Georgia State with a myriad of story lines: ‘Bulldog’ empire strikes back
To a man, the players want nothing more than to add a 15th Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship year to the “Wall of Champions” outside Oliver C. Dawson Stadium
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