Author: Sydney Bellamy | Staff writer

Sports

Checking in on FAMU baseball

The Florida A&M baseball program has Rattlers near and far on the edge of their seats and filled with excitement once again.  Over the weekend, the team dropped from the No.1 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference with an impressive 13-5 conference record tied with the Bethune Cookman Wildcats.  The Rattlers […]

Sports

FAMU softball atop SWAC standings

The Florida A&M softball team has officially reached the peak of the 2025 season, with just six games to go in the regular season schedule.  The Rattlers are 17-17 on the season and the No. 1 team in the Southwestern Athletic Conference with an impressive 13-4 conference record under first […]

Sports

FAMU basketball programs seasons end

The Florida A&M 2024-2025 basketball season has come to a close for both the men and women in the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament. Not, however, without making history. The men’s basketball team returned to the postseason for the first time since 2019 and secured their first-ever SWAC Tournament win […]

Sports

Rattlers ready for final games

The Florida A&M basketball teams will travel to Daytona Beach, Florida for their final games of the regular season against Bethune-Cookman ahead of the Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament in Atlanta, March 11-15.   Both FAMU’s men’s and women’s basketball teams will glide into the tournament due to the new 10-team […]

Sports

Rattlers ready for SWAC East round-up

The Lady Rattlers are gearing up for their second trip down the road to D’lberville, Mississippi this year.  This is where the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) will host the SWAC East round-up Friday through Sunday. The tournament will feature all eight bowling teams in the conference: FAMU, Alabama State, Alabama […]

Sports

Four Rattlers invited to 2024 HBCU Swingman Classic

The 2024 HBCU Swingman Classic selected four Florida A&M (FAMU) Rattlers,  Janmikell Bastardo, True Fontenot, Caleb Granger, and Ty Jackson, to play in the second annual game.  The Classic, presented by T-Mobile and powered by the Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Player Association (MLBPA), is the ultimate […]

Sports

Baseball comes up short in SWAC tournament

Florida A&M (FAMU) baseball team battled hard as a No.1 seed and Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) East Champions going into the SWAC Tournament, being played Wednesday to Sunday in Atlanta at Russ-Chandler Stadium. The Rattlers came close to being back-to-back champions but fell short to the Grambling State Tigers, 14-11, […]

Sports

Women fall to Southern, 67-61

The Florida A&M women’s basketball team rallied hard against the Jaguars of Southern University for their final road game this season but fell 67-61 late in the fourth quarter.  The Rattlers led the first quarter but could not keep the lead in the second, going into halftime down one point, […]

Lifestyles

A hair business with a twist

Aniyah Sparks, an upcoming loctician in Tallahassee, says that her business was inspired by her own loc journey. Sparks decided to loc her hair in June of 2021. The decision came during a difficult time in her life, but not only because COVID-19 was still new — which stripped her […]

Opinions

Does FAMU care about its female athletes?

In 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments was passed to ensure in part that women and men participating in athletics get an equal opportunity. Yet 50 years later, women’s athletic teams still struggle to receive the same support as male athletic teams. Data has shown that women’s athletic teams […]