Category: Articles
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MikeCheck: And another one – Aggies repeat as HBCU national champs, finish first in final polls after third Celebration Bowl win in four years
North Carolina A&T concludes the 2018 HBCU football season where it began as the No. 1 team in both the BOXTOROW Coaches and Media Polls following last Saturday’s 24-22 victory over Alcorn State in the Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl. The Aggies, who finished 10-2, received every first place vote in both national HBCU polls.
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MikeCheck: Grizzlies are ‘all frustrated right now’ as they chart recovery path from recent slide
Memphis is mired in a bit of a mess right now. Nagging injuries are piling up, scoring for what’s always been an execution-challenged offense is now way down and the team is still trying to regain its collective emotional balance after a botched trade last weekend shook the locker room.
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Memphis Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace on the trade that wasn’t
During the waning moments of last night’s Memphis Grizzlies home game against the Miami Heat, rumors emerged via social media that the Grizzlies had agreed to a three-way trade with the Washington Wizards and Phoenix Suns.
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#IMHO: LeBron and Wade, Warriors rising, Steph Curry goes lunar
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: 5 things to know about the Celebration Bowl as Aggies, Braves clash for HBCU national title
The two most accomplished and dominant Black College football teams in the country will enter Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Saturday for Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl. One will emerge as the 2018 HBCU national champion.
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Lang’s World: The future of Memphis Tigers football? It’s complicated
If you are a Memphis Tigers football fan, what is it that you want? Before we get to the answer, in this case we need to examine the question, which is self-explanatory, really: What’s the goal? This is also a good catch-all consideration for life, I suppose, but more than that it’s important for University…
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#IMHO: Running of the Bulls, hoops commercials, LeBron in L.A
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: 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,…