Friday was MEAC media day in Norfolk, VA and Donal Ware caught up with North Carolina Central head football coach Granville Eastman and talked with him about the upcoming season for the Eagles. Eastman shared that the football team had formed an intramural basketball league.
FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW May 18-19 Podcast
Donal talks about Hampton and the release of its football schedule and move from MEAC to Big South. Plus a replay of interview with former Winston-Salem State and North Carolina A&T head football coach Bill Hayes, who was the first Black coach in the ACC and was recently inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall
HBCU grad BJ Evans flourishes as PR man for Cavs
boxtorow.com Sitting on a deck in the middle of a lake in Orlando in March as he’s done many times in his career, Cleveland Cavaliers Director of Basketball Communications BJ Evans enjoys the good life, as he relaxes, a day ahead of the Cavaliers scheduled meeting with the Magic. It hadn’t always been this way
Jefferson named Player of the Year, leads BOXTOROW All-America Team
As the Final Four approaches, BOXTOROW releases its 10th annual Division I men’s college basketball All-America teams. Texas Southern sophomore guard Damontrae Jefferson was named BOXTOROW National Player of the Year. The 5-7 sophomore from Milwaukee, Wis. helped to lead the Tigers to the SWAC tournament championship and an appearance and win in the NCAA
BOXTOROW One-on-One with North Carolina Central head coach LeVelle Moton 2018
In the title of this piece, we had to add the 2018 disclaimer. That’s because exactly one year ago, BOXTOROW had a one-on-one conversation with North Carolina Central head coach LeVelle Moton. The Eagles make it to the Big Dance for the second year in a row, coming off an improbable 2018 MEAC Tournament championship
FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW: March 2-3, 2018
Donal talks about the CIAA Tournament remaining in Charlotte, about Hampton and the MEAC, and Savannah State head men’s basketball coach Horace Broadnax is our guest.
BOXTOROW Podcast: Ware talks Hampton/MEAC
BOXTOROW host Donal Ware talked extensively on FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW this past weekend about the press release the MEAC sent last week that it said set the record straight about Hampton leaving the conference to join the Big South and what it means for MEAC, its member schools and Hampton moving
BOXTOROW National Player of the Week: Todd Hughes
Virginia Union guard Todd Hughes 6-3, Senior, Smyrna, Del. Averaged 19 points, 5.5 rebounds, shot 55 percent from the field and 40 percent from three-point range in helping lead the Panthers to the CIAA Tournament championship. Presented by North Carolina Mutual
MEAC tells Hampton, not so fast…
by Donal Ware boxtorow.com The Mid Eastern Athletics Conference has officially and finally responded to Hampton leaving the MEAC for the Big South Conference. In a press release issued by the league, the MEAC wanted to ” to set the record straight regarding the University’s pending departure from the conference. In essence the MEAC broke proper
BOXTOROW National Player of the Week: Isaiah Bailey
Bethune-Cookman guard/forward Isaiah Bailey 6-6, Junior, Compton, Calif. Averaged 23.5 points, 11.0 rebounds, 10.0 assists and two steals in two victories last week for the first place Wildcats. Bailey recorded a triple double of 19 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists in the victory over Savannah State. Presented by North Carolina Mutual