Study shows weak grad rates for black male college athletes

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A report released through the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education shows that most of the schools in the NCAA's six major sports conferences have weak graduation rates for African-American male student-athletes...

Why don't college athletes major in 'sports'?

Stefen Lovelace

OPINION - There’s no such thing as a 'student-athlete' anymore...

$Tulane safety Devon Walker posing for a photograph in the Tulane University weight room in New Orleans. Walker fractured his spine in a head-to-head collision with a teammate during an NCAA college football game against Tulsa, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, in Tulsa, Okla., according to the team doctor. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Chris Granger)$

Tulane football player may be paralyzed after hit

Emily Wagster Pettus and Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Loved ones and teammates of a Tulane University football player who fractured his spine while making a tackle will face an agonizing wait to learn how serious the injury is and whether it will leave him paralyzed...

Wisconsin's Montee Ball attacked, hospitalized

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a group of men attacked star Wisconsin running backMontee Ball early Wednesday morning, knocking him to the ground and causing injuries that sent him to the hospital....

College football will hold 'playoff' in 2014

Ralph D. Russo, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The best way to determine a major college football champion seemed so obvious to so many for so long. Just have a playoff...

UCLA offers Snoop's son football scholarship

theGrio

Diddy's son Justin was first - and now UCLA football is looking to add another famous son to its roster: Snoop Dogg's son Cordell...

Sandusky convicted on sexual assault charges

Associated Press

BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (AP) - Jerry Sandusky, a top coach in one of America's prominent college football programs, was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years...

HBCU hire of white coach a bad sign?

Marquise Francis

theGRIO REPORT - Coach Jay Hopson was announced last Monday as Alcorn State's new head football coach. The hiring of Hopson did not come without controversy because he becomes the first white head football coach in the entire Southwestern Athletic Conference's history...