MEAC Commissioner Sonja Stills: Making Athletes Employees “Would Be the Demise” of HBCU Athletics
MEAC Commissioner Sonja Stills has drawn her sharpest line yet on the question hanging over every college sports bill in…
Howard Athletics and McDonald’s Announce Multi-Year Partnership
Howard University’s Department of Athletics has a new corporate partner, and it’s one of the world’s most recognizable brands. Howard…
Poached: The Real Numbers Behind Marshall Faulk’s “Next Level” Warning
For generations, the pitch to a talented recruit walking into an HBCU program was simple: play here, and the league…
ESPN and the MEAC Extend Their Media Rights Deal Through 2030-31
ESPN and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference announced a new multi-year media rights agreement on Tuesday, July 21 that will keep…
SWAC Commissioner: SWAC TV Topped 60 Million Minutes in Year One, Expects to Double Its Event Count
SWAC TV finished its first year with more than 60 million minutes watched, and the conference plans to roughly double…
An ESPN and MEAC Media Rights Extension Likely Announced Next Week
ESPN apparently is not finished making major announcements this week. A media rights extension with the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference was…
ESPN and the SWAC Extend Their Media Rights Deal Through 2030-31
ESPN and the Southwestern Athletic Conference announced a new multi-year media rights agreement on July 15 that will keep SWAC…
South Carolina State and Johnson C. Smith Open at No. 1 in the First Black College Football Poll
Black college football has a new measuring stick. The inaugural Black College Football Poll, released Thursday, July 9, installs defending…
Which Division 2 HBCUs Are Built for the Jump to the MEAC or SWAC?
The question is not a new one. For years, HBCU fans and administrators have floated the idea of certain Division…
Sin Tax or Student Tax: A Different Way to Look at Sports Wagering Revenue for HBCUs
Charles Bishop of Inside the HBCU Sports Lab recently posed a devil’s advocate question about whether sports wagering revenue should…
NCCU Eagles Commit to House Settlement Revenue Sharing While Navigating the UNC System’s Toughest Financial Picture
North Carolina Central University announced at its June 24 Board of Trustees meeting that its athletic department will opt into…
NCAA Votes to Approve Age-Based Eligibility Rule for Division I Athletes
The NCAA’s Division I Cabinet voted Tuesday unanimously to scrap the current NCAA Eligibility system and replace it with a…
The MEAC Backed the Protect College Sports Act Too. Here Is Where It Parts Ways With the SWAC.
Five days after the SWAC wrote Congress in support of the Protect College Sports Act, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference did…