In the sports universe, everything has its place. Players play, coaches coach, and fans cheer. In the complicated world that we live in, this simplicity is refreshing. Everyone knows their place. No one element of this order controls sports, but combined, it creates something special. That’s what makes sports so […]

Friday 1/18Women’s Indoor Track and Field: McNeese State Invitational Lake Charles, LASaturday 1/19Women’s Basketball vs. Morgan State 2:00 pmMen’s Basketball vs. Morgan State 4:00pmSwimming and Diving @ Florida Atlantic 2:00pm Men’s Indoor Track and Field: McNeese State Invitational Lake Charles, LAMen’s Tennis vs. Jacksonville 1:00pm Jacksonville, FL Sunday 1/20Men’s Tennis […]

With Barrera/Morales II, De La Hoya/Vargas and Mosley/Forrest fights on the horizon in the coming weeks, it looks like it will be a strong year for championship boxing. Promoters in Mississippi, riding the trend, had matched a pair of notable heavy-heavyweights, Eric “Butterbean” Esch and William “Refrigerator” Perry, to a […]

In case anyone was mistaken prejudice against blacks still exists in the new millennium. During the 2001 U.S. Open, #1 seeded Martina Hingis made racist comments against the Williams sisters, stating: “Being black only helps [the Williams sisters]. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have […]

Parking is an issue of great concern on FAMU’s campus. In Spring 2001, it was told to students that we would be assessed transportation/access fees for the upcoming school year. I thought this was a clever way for the Office of Parking and Transportation Services to be able to ensure […]

By now almost everyone in America has gotten wind of the divorce proceedings between basketball great, Michael Jordan and his soon to be ex-wife, Juanita. The issue of assessing blame for the failure of this relationship gets beyond the point of the real salient points. America has an admitted fascination […]

With all the drama in sports lately, ESPN seems as if it should be called the Soap Opera Network. The most recent installment in the ongoing drama of sports being Shaquille O’Neal getting charged $15,000 for throwing a misguided punch at Chicago Bull’s Brad Miller. In the same game, Charles […]

There are over 12,000 thousand students that attend FAMU and out of this number only three thousand students live in campus housing. The other nine thousand plus students don’t live on campus not because they do not want to, but because they cannot. FAMU only has 2,973 spaces available for […]

he 2001 year has ended but students have no record of account, at least not as far as campus is concerned. The Little Black Book, the yearbook for the 2000-2001 school year, was delayed until after a meeting among the yearbook’s editor-in-chief, its adviser, Interim President Lewis and other university […]

Last semester FAMU was hit with a series of car break-ins and other delinquent acts. This semester FAMU Police are taking the safety of FAMU to a whole new level. “We’re taking all levels of accessibility and visibility to a new level,” said Assistant Police Chief John Earst for the […]