The Alabama State University Hornets football team is going green this season. In a collaborative effort between ASU and the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries (AGI), the Hornets team bus now will be partially powered by used cooking o… more »

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - In the Southwest Athletic Conference, there are the battles both on the field and away from the gridiron. Teams such as Jackson State and Prairie View would love to challenge themselves in the FCS playoffs, even at… more »

The Southwestern Athletic Conference announced its 2009 Football Preseason Honors Tuesday, headlined by Southern QB Bryant Lee voted the Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, and Grambling State DL Christian Anthony voted Preseason Defensive Player of… more »

Penalty is reduced to a three-year period, ending December 9, 2011. The Alabama State University appealed to the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee specific findings of violations and penalties as determined by the NCAA Division I Committe… more »

Three summers ago, the athletic directors of all 10 Southwestern Athletic Conference schools agreed to move to a seven-game conference football schedule, rather than the nine-game schedule that had previously been used. The thinking was the creation… more »

The Southwestern Athletic Conference has announced its four-game Thursday football schedule for the upcoming 2009 season. All televised Thursday games will be shown live on ESPNU, beginning on Oct. 1 with Univ. Arkansas-Pine Bluff hosting Alcorn Stat… more »

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Reggie Barlow messed up. The second-year Alabama State head coach readily admits now that bringing in offensive coordinator Ben Noonan and his spread offense last year was a mistake. It was a hasty move that was destined for failure from the start, m… more »

Russell Athletic, a major supplier of sports apparel to collegiate and professional sports teams, is facing an all-out blitz from campus activists. Twenty-five U.S. colleges have cut ties to Atlanta-based Russell over alleged abuse of workers’ right… more »

Proximity, history could charge UD-DSU meetings. The University of Delaware and Delaware State University have some catching up to do. Football rivalries don't form overnight. But UD and DSU already have many of the ingredients to make this one sp… more »

Few people know more about NCAA rules than Alabama State head coach Reggie Barlow. And, oh, how he wishes he knew much less. During his two years as Hornets head coach, Barlow has picked up a career's worth of compliance and enforcement knowledge,… more »

The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has penalized Alabama State University for major and secondary violations in its athletics programs, primarily in football. The case involves a lack of institutional control and a failure to monitor by the… more »

Catch/No catch: Ladies and gentlemen, we have controversy. If you're an Alabama State or Tuskegee fan, by now you've probably seen the well-circulated photo of "The Catch." If you haven't, I'll explain. Someone in Tuskegee's media relations depart… more »

The Southern Inter­collegiate Athletic Con­ference has permanent­ly suspended an official who ruled that a late touchdown pass was out of bounds in last week's Turkey Day Clas­sic game against Alaba­ma State, costing the Golden Tigers a win. In s… more »

The last time Alabama State played a football game, gas was nearly $4 a gallon, the Dow was above 10,000 and Auburn still had an offensive coordinator. A lot can happen in 16 days. Very little of it is good if you're an idle football team.… more »