Thursday, October 6, 2016 Friday, October 7, 2016 Saturday, October 8, 2016 Sunday, October 9, 2016
TSU looks to remain hot; faces conference foe Eastern Illinois
BOXTOROW National Game of the Week 3/3Tennessee State (4-0, 1-0) vs. Eastern Illinois (3-2, 1-1) Tennessee State has won its first four games of the season for the first time since 2012, the year before they made an appearance in the FCS playoffs which to that point they hadn’t done in 14 years. The Tigers
BOXTOROW Polls: Slight changes as A&T remains No. 1
[insert_php] /* hide author info except on post */ if (is_single()) { echo “boxtorow.com”; } [/insert_php] Week five of the HBCU football season went mostly as expected. However losses by Prairie View A&M, Hampton and Alcorn State produced some rearranging in the BOXTOROW Coaches and Media Polls. In the coaches poll, the very top remained
BOXTOROW Goes One on One with Carli Lloyd
If we were to go one-on-one on the soccer field with 2015 FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year Carli Lloyd, we would have no chance. After all, she was the hero for the U.S. in the World Cup Final against Japan last year scoring three goals (she was a guest on BOXTOROW two days
FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW: Saturday, October 1, 2016
SAU and former USA Track and Field coach George Williams, Soccer superstar Carli Lloyd, and Savannah State head football coach Erik Raeburn
BOXTOROW Blitz: October 1, 2016
HBCU sports highlights from the week of October 1, 2016
2016 Football Scoreboards Week Five
Thursday, September 29, 2016 Saturday, October 1, 2016
State Fair Classic: Grambling/Prairie View Shootout 2?
BOXTOROW National Game of the Week 2/2 Grambling (2-1, 2-0) vs. 4/5 Prairie View A&M (3-1, 3-0) Last year’s annual State Fair Classic between Grambling and Prairie View A&M ultimately decided the SWAC’s Western Division. GSU won the shootout 70-54. This year’s game played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas may not ultimately decide the
HBCU Legend: Remembering Ed Temple 1927-2016
BOXTOROW would like to send our condolences to the family and Tennessee State family of Ed Temple who passed away last Thursday at the age of 89. We had the very distinct honor of having a 20-minute interview with Coach Temple back in 2012, shortly after he was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
News & Notes from Week 4: Savannah State pulls the shocker over B-CU
In talking with Savannah State star defensive end Marquis Smith – the NC Mutual BOXTOROW National Player of the Week – the Tigers always believed. So while the HBCU football world was shocked by SSU’s 16-10 overtime victory over MEAC perennial power Bethune-Cookman on Saturday, the Tigers weren’t. “It was no doubt in our mind