Just one day after securing their second win of the season, the Florida A&M men’s basketball team (2-6, 1-0 MEAC) has announced the postponement of their next three games. The Rattlers were scheduled to take on South Carolina State today, the second in a two-game series. The university said it […]
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Lynes, a defensive lineman, still isn’t sure how he tested positive
Since March, college sports at every level have drastically changed due to the pandemic. After nine months, coronavirus cases recently hit over one million in Florida, affecting numerous student-athletes across the state, including at least one college athlete at Florida A&M University. A day after Khalil Lynes told his college […]
Students voice disappointment following cancellation of football
Florida A&M University’s athletic department earlier this month announced that there will be no football season along with volleyball and women’s cross country. Football season is normally a fall sport, but due to COVID-19 the season was delayed by the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and rescheduled for the spring semester. FAMU […]
FAMU baseball back in action
Despite Florida A&M University deciding to cancel spring football, volleyball and indoor track and field, one program is looking forward to beginning its season in 2021. The Rattlers’ baseball program will be back in action in the spring. The team will look to pick up where it left off last […]
COVID-19 impacts high school recruits
As the year progresses, COVID-19 continues to affect the sports world. During this time of uncertainty, athletes all over the world are being forced to adjust to a new normal. For high school student-athletes hopeful of being recruited, adjusting to the pandemic has been challenging physically as well as mentally. In […]
Football, other sports canceled
Fans, students and alumni were looking forward to the return of football and other sports at Florida A&M in the spring. However, the university will be opting out of the 2021 spring season for football and two other sports, Athletic Director Kortne Gosha told The Famuan this afternoon. Both basketball […]
FSU looks to bounce back against Pittsburgh
The (2-4) Seminoles are looking to bounce back this week against the (3-4) Pittsburgh Panthers after losing 48-16, last week to the Louisville Cardinals. It was a rough game from start to finish for the Seminoles. Quarterback Jordan Travis went 14/32 for 141 yards, along with one touchdown and one […]
Gosha hopes to fill holes in football schedule created by B-CU
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference announced its spring 2021 football schedule. It has FAMU participating in only divisional play in order to alleviate time spent outside of class for the players, travel expenses and eliminating any air travel due to safety precautions concerning the coronavirus. The schedule was originally set for […]
Simmons donates his time to FAMU’s wrestling team
Fredrick Simmons is the marketing and recruiting coordinator at Florida A&M University’s College of Science and Technology. Simmons also works with the wrestling team as the assistant coach alongside head coach Thomas White. In 2007, Simmons graduated with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from FAMU. He completed his master’s degree […]
HBCU aquatics programs: What happened?
Historically Black colleges and universities aquatics programs have gradually deteriorated one-by-one over the last few decades. Due to a lack of support from the college and university administration to limited or depleted funding, HBCU aquatics was not able to sustain these very important programs. HBCUs have a history of initiating […]