Florida A&M University’s football team made national news on Friday — for the wrong reason. One day before Saturday’s season opener at University of North Carolina, it was announced that more than two dozen members of FAMU’s football team were academically ineligible to play in the game. In a statement […]

It was a hectic few days for the Florida A&M football team. Perhaps it started when coach Willie Simmons made the controversial call to start transfer quarterback Jeremy Moussa for the season opener against the University of North Carolina. While this decision shocked the FAMU world, the real shocker came […]

NEW YORK — At the biggest tennis event of the year, diversity and inclusion were just a form of how Althea Gibson was honored. On Thursday, U.S. Open officials brought National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations together to honor Gibson’s legacy with performances and more. The Harlem street between Adam Clayton Powell […]

Florida A&M University Athletics is partnering with Twitter to create a Twitter community. FAMU is the first HBCU to get this partnership. According to Twitter, these communities were created to “give people a dedicated place to connect, share, and get closer to the discussions they care about most.” Admins and […]

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the Olympic Games, once said, “No matter how toughened a sportswoman may be, her organism is not cut out to sustain certain shocks.”  This thinking still exists in the  controversial debate around gender and equal pay in sports. While pay for women has […]

According to an infographic released by the NCAA, only 1.6% of draft-eligible players will be drafted and enter the ranks of the NFL. The statistics are even bleaker for HBCU athletes. In last year’s draft, not a single athlete attending an HBCU was selected. Despite this, Rattler draft prospects continue […]

The Florida A&M University cheer team has overcome tough challenges, emotionally and physically, to ultimately leave it all on the floor, winning a third-place title at the National Cheer Association Daytona Beach Classic. The FAMU cheer team competed in the Intermediate All-Girls Division I section, scoring a 93.3519 performance score […]

Spring football was back in action this Saturday as the Florida A&M Rattlers took to the field underneath clear Tallahassee skies to entertain fans with a game filled with aerial attacks and defensive prowess. The Rattler offense ranked 45th out of all FCS schools according to Sports Illustrated. That is […]

Florida A&M University athletics is now charging a $5 admission fee for all home baseball and softball games. The change was announced in February and explained in am email to the FAMU community that the fee is only for non-FAMU students. Since the announcement, there have been mixed views on […]