Happy 4th of July! We are working today here at BOXTOROW and are glad to bring you a look at the upcoming season for Elizabeth City State. Second year head coach Earnest Wilson talks about last year’s somewhat pleasantly surprising 5-5 season and the expectation for 2017. #HBCU125
FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW will hold its third annual Countdown to Kickoff college football preview radio show Saturday, July 22 from 12-2 p.m. live from Jimmy V’s Osteria & Bar located in the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, 420 Fayetteville St., in downtown Raleigh, NC. The event will feature Shaw head coach Adrian Jones, Saint
Olympic Gold Medalist Simone Biles and NBA legend Dick Barnett
2016 was a really good year for Virginia State first-year head coach Reggie Barlow. The Trojans finished 9-2 and within a game of winning the CIAA Northern Division. Donal Ware breaks down the Trojans 2016 and looks at 2017.
Bowie State has won the CIAA Northern Division the last two years, but has lost to Winston-Salem State in the CIAA championship game twice. Is this the year the Bulldogs get over the hump? BSU head coach Damon Wilson joins host Donal Ware to talk about just that and the 2017 edition of the BSU
We go to Institute, WV to take a look at the West Virginia State Yellow Jackets football program that went 3-8 last season. There’s a new sheriff in town however as John Pennington takes over the program having served the last two seasons as the offensive coordinator.
Let’s go to Jacksonville, FL and talk with former Bethune-Cookman legendary coach Alvin Wyatt now in his fourth season as head coach at Edward Waters as he talks about the expectation for the Tigers and about a prospect that may rival his former B-CU players, defensive backs Rashean Mathis and Nick Collins. 6/20/17 #HBCU125
Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato and actress/model Charlotte McKinney
Last year Coastal Carolina shocked Division I baseball by winning the CWS National Championship Series. Bethune-Cookman is looking for the second year in a row to become the small school to achieve the same feat. B-CU is a long way away from that goal. The Wildcast are however a game away from winning the Gainesville Regional
The Texas Southern baseball team won its second SWAC Tournament championship in three seasons two weeks ago defeating defending champion Alabama State 4-2 in 13 innings. The Tigers didn’t lose a single game in the tournament despite a 20-32 overall record, and beat the favorite Jackson State twice. For head coach Michael Robertson, who is