The Spartans of Norfolk State University, an FCS playoff team last season and still a force after their second straight win on Saturday at Liberty Umiversity, where NSU defeated the Flames 31 – 24. The Spartans return to Norfolk next weekend for a home date with Howard University. In other MEAC action, the Pirates of […]
The 2012 college football season is off and running in the CIAA and the MEAC conferences. In fact, the two collaborated on Labor Day weekend as the Trojans of Virginia State visited their arch-rivals, the Spartans of Norfolk State University, last season’s MEAC champions. NSU played like a championship team in defeating the Trojans 24 […]
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association kicked-off it’s 100th year on this Labor Day weekend. The biggest venue was at Dick Price Stadium in Norfolk, VA where the annual Labor Day Classic featured one of the league’s oldest and dearest rivalries, one that actually began may years ago when both Norfolk State and Virginia State Universities […]
The 2012 College Football season gets underway this week, and both the CIAA and the MEAC conferences are hard at work prepping for another exciting season of Black college football. With most of their key starters returning this year, the Rams of Winston-Salem State University are a virtual lock to win the CIAA title again. […]
Peggy Davis, who has served as Athletic Director of Virginia State for the past eight years, will take over as interim Commissioner of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, replacing Leon Kerry, who abruptly resigned the position recently. Ms. Davis was also the Trojans’ Women’s Basketball Coach and has held several positions on committees involving the […]
For we Virginia State University alums who came out in the cold, windy, and rainy weather on Saturday, the Trojans did not disappoint. Even mother nature decided enough was enough around halftime and it actually turned into a fairly nice, but chilly Homecoming on the Hill, highlighted by State’s 39-14 win over arch-rival Virginia Union. […]
A big crowd as usual expected for the 2011 Virginia State University Homecoming this afternoon on The Hill, and added incentive to attend is the opponent, the arch-rival Panthers of Virginia Union University. As the saying goes “throw records out of the window” when these two get together, doesn’t matter. The rivalry is one of […]
As a Virginia State University alum and a media ambassador to my alma mater, I wholeheartedly welcome Dr. Keith T. Miller as the 13th President of our great institution. Having met with the President several times, I’m proud to say that he’s the perfect person to continue the growth and development of the school and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
