Bears to start spring practices April 2 and conclude April 24 with Blue-Orange Alumni Scrimmage The Morgan State football team will return to the practice field Thursday, April 2 for the start of 15 spring practices. The team will practice every Mo… more »

The Mississippi Valley State University Department of Athletics announces that William Bright Jr. joins the staff as the new director of sports information and athletic communications. Bright brings over ten years of experience in athletic communicatio… 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 »

The Mississippi Valley State department of athletics released today the 2009 Delta Devils’ football schedule. The schedule will feature mostly familiar faces and be highlighted by a return trip to the Chicago Football Classic. Valley will open their… 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 »

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 »

After 3-8 season, coach changes offense to better suit quarterbacks' abilities. Following an off-season of change in Willie Totten's Mississippi Valley State program, the Delta Devils seem set on a quarterback who can lead their offense. For now.… 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 »

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 »

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 »

BIRMINGHAM — Last year, Steven Fulbright experienced the nightmare of any senior player who sweated through an entire offseason of work: He was injured, lost for the season with a ligament tear in his knee, on the first play of Mississippi Valley State'… more »

BIRMINGHAM - Jackson State was named the preseason favorite to win the Southwestern Athletic Conference East Division at Media Day in Birmingham on Tuesday. The defending conference champions received a conference-high 105 points and 17 first-place v… more »

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — If nothing else, even if the prognostications don’t prove accurate by season’s end, the bluebloods of the Southwestern Athletic Conference — Jackson State, Southern and Grambling — have reclaimed respect with the way they played last… more »

The buzz in the SWAC this summer is all about the quarterbacks. Six of the top 10 passers from 2008 have graduated, but a few newcomers could determine who emerges as the most serious challenge for defending champion Jackson State. In terms of QBs… more »

As the Southwestern Athletic Conference holds football media day, we check in with first-year commissioner Duer Sharp. A former interim athletic director at Grambling, Sharp previously served as the SWAC’s assistant commissioner and had a previous tenur… more »