Category: Articles
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MikeCheck: Celebration Bowl-bound Aggies don’t need FCS playoffs to validate one of NCAA football’s most remarkable runs
When you’ve dominated Black College football the past half-decade like North Carolina A&T has, it’s human nature to contemplate how far such a talented and special team might go in the national college football playoffs against top mainstream FCS competition.
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MikeCheck: Grizzlies breakout rookie Jaren Jackson Jr. ‘can do no wrong’ amid historic transition into NBA career
Following Jackson through his first months in the NBA has required keeping up at a record-setting pace. Emerging from a breakout November and heading into December, the 19-year-old power forward has already lived up to most – if not all – initial expectations. Honestly, he’s exceeded many of them for his rookie year.
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Lang’s World: UGA shows they’re good, not great, not yet
The University of Georgia Bulldogs are one of the four best college football teams in the country. But at the same time, I do not think they deserve to be in the college football playoffs. As great as UGA has been this season, they’ve also never reached their full potential and haven’t played consistently great,…
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#IMHO: Wither the Wizards, Pop vs. Kawhi, and the surprising Kings, Raptors
Grind City Media’s Lang Whitaker and Michael Wallace have been covering the NBA since shorts were short and socks were long, but their opinions about the League don’t always mesh. #IMHO is their weekly chance to weigh in on the most pertinent news from around the NBA. What’s lit? What’s lame? Find out each week…
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MikeCheck: SWAC title game Saturday pits conference’s hottest team (Southern) against league’s most dominant squad (Alcorn St.)
MEMPHIS – Turns out, Legion Field in Birmingham is available to host the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s football championship game on Saturday after all. Alcorn State probably couldn’t care less.
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Lang’s World: Let’s take a ride on the coaching carousel
In a sport where the players don’t get paid, all that money has to go somewhere, and most of it seems to go to hiring and firing coaches. And if you listen real closely, you can hear the coaching carousel beginning to spin.
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MikeCheck Minute: North Carolina A&T is Celebration Bowl Bound, and More HBCU Updates
Mike Wallace covers exciting news from Orlando, FL for Aggies fans as North Carolina A&T is heading back to the Celebration Bowl. Meanwhile, three SWAC teams remain in contention for the in HBCU Championship on Dec. 15 as Mike brings…
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MikeCheck: Braves, Aggies wait as Bayou Classic solidifies next piece of HBCU postseason picture
As the HBCU football national championship picture sharpens into focus, the views from Lorman, Miss. and Greensboro, N.C. are better than any a month out from the Celebration Bowl. But before Alcorn State can look towards the national title game, their attention will shift to New Orleans for Saturday’s Bayou Classic.
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Lang’s World: Giving Thanks for College Football
My family didn’t have many traditions for the Thanksgiving holiday, other than snoring loudly post-meal in various reclining chairs. But the one moment we always managed to make time for as we sat down around the table, just before we dug in, was when we would go around the table and each say something for…
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#IMHO: Draymond vs KD, Melo‘s next stop, and surprises in Memphis
Grind City Media’s Lang Whitaker and Michael Wallace have been covering the NBA since shorts were short and socks were long, but their opinions about the League don’t always mesh. #IMHO is their weekly chance to weigh in on the most pertinent news from around the NBA. What’s lit? What’s lame? Find out each week…