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It’s Week Three of the 2011 College Football season, and so far, an exciting start for our local teams.  Virginia Tech, ranked 13th, is 2-0 with a home date vs. Arkansas State this Saturday.  UVA escaped the Hoosiers of Indiana on the road last week to remain unbeaten, but Mike London’s young Cavaliers will face […]

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Week Two of the college season saw the Virginia State University Trojans bounce back from their season-opening loss at Norfolk State.  VSU defeated West Virginia State 17-14, a nice road win in a season in which the Trojans have only 3 home games.  Meanwhile, CIAA rival Virginia Union gave up zero points in their first […]

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          With season-opening routs under their belts, both Virginia Tech and UVA will face bigger challenges this weekend as both will hit the road against stronger opponents.  The Cavaliers travel to Bloomington for a date with the Hoosiers of Indiana U.  The Hokies head to Greenville, NC  to face the Pirates of East Carolina University.  […]

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          It’s a battle of the CIAA’s two best marching bands, and this Saturday, September 10th, we’ll find out once and for all who has the most “Dynamic” marching band in the CIAA.  It’s the “Clash For The Crown” featuring the “Red Sea Of Sound” from Winston-Salem State University, and the spectacular sound of the […]

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          The opening weekend of the 2011 College Football season was a very successful one for most of our local universities, only Virginia State came out of the first official weekend of the new season with a loss.  The Trojans were no match for the Spartans of Norfolk State in Saturday’s Labor Day Classic.  Meanwhile, […]

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          The 2011 college football season actually got underway last Saturday with the Virginia Union University Panthers defeating CIAA rival St. Augustine’s College 12-0 in Richmond.  The rest of the state’s teams will begin play this Saturday, September 3rd.  Virginia State University will renew its rivalry with Norfolk State in the Labor Day Classic at […]

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After suffering through one of their worst seasons ever, Virginia State University has turned to Darryl Jacobs to turn the Trojans men’s basketball program around.  Jacobs has spent the last 5 years as head coach at Clark-Atlanta where he led that program from obscurity to a national Division II power.  His Clark-Atlanta team began last […]

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While we’re all celebrating VCU’s rise onto the national stage with their appearance in this weekend’s Final Four, I saw this as a teachable moment for some misinformed fans. Surely, this is HUGE for Richmond, and should the Rams prevail and win the NCAA Championship, it would be the city’s fourth, yes, fourth national hoops […]

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Virginia Union University selected the 8th head basketball coach in school history yesterday, naming Luqman Jaaber, a former assistant and player for the Panthers.  Jaaber, a Richmond native, was captain of Union’s 2005 national championship team and is the Panthers all-time leader in assists and steals.  Jaaber replaces Willard Coker, who replaced the legendary Dave […]

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He replaced a legend in former coach Dave Robbins who won multiple CIAA titles and NCAA championships on his way to becoming one of college hoops’ all-time winningest coaches on any level.  Today, it is Willard Coker who will be replaced.  Coker toook over the Panthers helm in 2008 after serving as an assistant to […]

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          In an honor well deserved, I congratulate Dr. Paulette Johnson of Petersburg, (second from left) who recently retired from Va. State University where she had served in various capacities over the years, but none more notable than as the Head Cheerleading Coach. For her hard work and tireless dedication, she will be inducted next month […]

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          To say the Virginia State University Trojans basketball team was having a bad year would be polite. VSU has won only one game, a 65-52 victory over Pfeiffer in the season opener back on November 15th.  Since then, State has lost a school record 13 straight games.  On Thursday, VSU decided to make a […]