NEW HAVEN, CT – Two wide receivers headline the Walter Camp Football Foundation 2008 Football Championship Subdivision All-America team. The team was selected by the head coaches and sports information directors of the Football Championship Subdivision… more »

HOUSTON -- The Prairie View Panthers football team had their best season this year going 9-1, during their 2008 campaign. Their only loss came at the hands of the Grambling State Tigers in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. The football program has co… more »

HOUSTON -- Prairie View A & M's historic season in football has attracted the attention of officials who run the Texas A and M System. Chancellor Mike McKinney told FOX 26 Sports Thursday that he, two vice-chancellors, and four members of the bo… 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 »

The SWAC might as well be in the dark ages - and commissioner Duer Sharp is desperate to do something about it. Conference coaches currently exchange game tape early in the week before playing each other. And it's literally tape. Sharp knows the l… more »

Someone will move, and someone will get hit, so the plan goes. Hence the theme for tonight’s State Farm Labor Day Classic, as Texas Southern and Prairie View A&M open the regular season (7 p.m.) in a contest that will feature an explosive quarter… more »

In past seasons, three or four wins would have counted as a sign of progress for Prairie View A&M, a program that had been starving for positive attention. This year, the bar is raised much higher for a Panthers team that comes off a 7-3 season,… more »

Jackson State and Grambling State faced off in the 2007 SWAC Championship Game and, according to members of the media and preseason polls, the two will meet again at the conclusion of the 2008 season for the league crown. The defending champion Tiger… more »

The Southwestern Athletic Conference will kick off a new and somewhat controversial conference schedule on Aug. 30. The new format calls for seven games to decide the SWAC divisional races instead of nine. The thought process is that fewer conference… more »

I interviewed Prairie View A&M running back Donald Babers on Tuesday for the Panthers' season preview, and I had plenty of material left over after writing the story. Babers enters this season atop the depth chart at running back after rushing fo… more »

Nearly nine months after finishing their first winning season since 1976, the Prairie View A&M Panthers got their 2008 fall camp under way with a practice Monday night. The coaches, the drills and most of the faces were the same from last season,… more »

In the hunt for qualified black coaches at the NCAA Division I-A level, a seemingly logical place to begin looking would be the Southwestern Athletic Conference, a Division I-AA league that is home to 10 historically black universities. But Floyd Kei… more »

Remember that Q&A with Prairie View A&M interim athletic director Fred Washington that I promised you nearly two weeks ago? It took awhile, but I finally managed to find time to type up the interview. This Q&A is roughly about half of our… more »

Who says the Golden Age of Southeast Texas football is in the past? Look at the AP Top 25. There you see the Texas Longhorns, sitting at the end of the preseason Top 10 with a secondary that leans heavy on Golden Triangle talent. Look at the th… more »

Once again, in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, seven means seven, for sure, but not necessarily just seven. The 10-team Southwestern Athletic Conference is returning to its seven-game format this season — going away from making teams play all n… more »