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wmmm 4C SPORTS/ISt CJstlotte #o8t Thursday, June 30, 2005 For the Week of June 28 - July 4, 2005 BACK IN THE SADDLE Grambling Sports Photo EUGENE: Redo of final year at Grambling has QB and his team picked among l-AA's best. T PRESEASON FOOTBALL DATES SET; HBCUS TO BE REPPED WELL IN HELSINKI as AD to return to the classroom. UNDER THE BANNER WHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS CHANGE AT THE TOP: Hampton University Athletics Director Malcolm "Zeke" Avery is _ stepping down from his position to return to teaching, effective June 30 and Head Football Coach Joe Taylor will take his place on an interim basis. Hampton President William K. Harvey made the announce- iTient of Taylor's appointment Friday. While serving as interim athletiiftaidiietfRtfor^iyiMC will also continue as head football AVERY: Stepping down coach a position he has held for 13 years. "After 36 years in education, 20 in Norfolk Public Schools and 16 as coach and admin istrator at Hampton, I am stepping down as athletics direc tor to go back to what 1 enjoy best, teaching," said Avery earlier in the week. Avery arrived at Hampton as head men's basketball coach in 1987 and spent eight seasons at the helm of the Pirate program compiling a mark of 138-82 (.627). "I am extremely proud that during my tenure as bas ketball coach we won the ClAA and as athletics director the Pirates have captured five all sports trophies, two for men's spons and three for women's," Avery said. Avery led the Pirates to the 1991 CIAA Tournament Championship. For his efforts that season he was honored as the CIAA Coach of the Year. At the conclusion of his coaching career, Avery made the transition to administra tion where he spent the next six years as the Assistant Director of Athletics/Compliance Coordinator. In his three years overseeing Pirate athletics since the departure of Dennis Thomas to become the commissioner of the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference. Avery's leader ship helped guide Hampton to 15 conference titles and a sweep of the 2(X)3 and 2004 Talmadf^e Layman Hill and Mary McLeod Beihune Awards given to the top men's and women's athletic program in the MEAC. Taylor was appointed assistant athletics director in January. • "Working at Hampton has afforded us many success es." said Taylor, who is the winningest coach in Hampton football history. "I am honored that the administration has this much confidence in me. We have great coaches, out standing student athletes, and dedicated faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the University. I look forward to working with all of them to continue the'rich athletics tra dition at Hampton." The University also announced the promotion of Keshia Campbell to the position of associate athletic director for administration and senior women's administra tor THE STAT CORNER WHO ARE THE BEST PERFORMERS IN BUCK COLLEGE SPORTS BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL MEDIA DAYS CIAA Thursday, July 21, Virginia State University Ettrick, VA • 12 noon SIAC Thursday, July 28 Holiday Inn Select: Atlanta Conference Center Decatur, GA SWAC Friday, July 29 Birmingham Sheraton Dow/ntown Birmingham, AL • 10 am - 3 pm MEAC Friday, July 29 Hilton Crystal City Arlington, VA • 12 noon Unprecedented coverage i BTRUT & •MinrH't. 1. R ivr WM WWrtM totww All ■riml wH. MMrfi tmirf mi t !■>! in’! ■ J iBrnn^ CUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor A national sports business publication recently came out with an in-depth front page story on the state of television deals for both the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference and Southwestern Athletic Conference - a story that peers into the inner workings of deals that have caused two national sports television net works to clash. At the heart of writer Andy Bernstein's story (see graphic at right) in the June 13-19 edition of the weekly Street Smith’s Sports Business Journal, are developments over the last five months involving media giants ESPN and CSTV as both try to make inroads into the black college sports market through these con ferences. ESPN, which got on board in a major way with black college conferences by televis ing the 2005 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Basketball Tournament in March, announced in February exclusive seven-year deals to televise MEAC and SWAC football and basketball games, beginning with their basketball tournament games in March. In April, CSTV announced a deal of its own involving extensive television and media rights it said it had landed with both confer ences along with the Southern Intercollegiate BCSP Notes SWAC Kickoff The Southwestern Athletic Conference kicks off the league’s 84th football season with the 2005 Football Media Day. The SWAC Football Media Day will lake place on Friday. July 29. 2005 at the Birmingham Sheraton-Downtown from 10 am - 3 pm. The event, marking the kick-off the 2005 SWAC football season, will be the culmination of two-days of SWAC events in the city of Birmingham. The conference will also co-sponsor the 2nd Annual SWAC Youth Football Clinic on Thursday. July 28, 2005 from 9 am - 12n at Birmingham’s historic Legion Field. , The SWAC Football Media Day Activities are the beginning of a season that will be highlighted by the MEAC-SWAC football challenge to be televised by ESPN on Labor Day weekend, Saturday, September 3, 2005 at Birmingham’s Legion Field.' The 2004 SWAC Champion, Alabama State and MEAC Co-Champion South Carolina State will collide in a nationally televised game at 2:30 pm (CT). The season will conclude with the SWAC Football Championship Game-in Birmingham on Saturday, December 10,2005 at Legion Field. The Football Media Day program will feature coaches’ presenta tions built into the luncheon period with the pre-season All-SWAC team and predicted order of finish announced at the end of the luncheon. Media one-on-one interviews with coaches and players will be held after the luncheon from 1-3 pm. Admission to the luncheon is by invitation'only. Registered media' will be issued invitations during registration and a limited number of tickets are available to the public. For more information on SWAC Media Days and Youth Clinic, con tact the SWAC Office at (205) 251-7573 SportsBusiness JOURNAL teiiiakisditiiiileii Kll-I MM t M1. ivmrn ad iim M nrf » Imp w Ip ifwil tfnr M* INMIMI M>ripMr4fKi‘l lui —»lulfcH. mIm nltaria ■iwtt to •• nimi TVt mV Ml WJL’*1* w M imI »t Mi A mdrnf. »!' uitoii* to niliWPi MW * Athletic Conference. That announcement set off a volley of denials from all three conferences, excerpts of which are included in the story. Bernstein’s story also traces the history of black college conference TV deals over the last few years and the role of New Vision Sports Properties, the company that has marketing rights for all three conferences, in this dispute and several others. The SBJ. the industry leader in sports busi ness publications, is available both in print and on-line only through subscriptions but is not sold on newsstands. Trial subscriptions can be obtained through the magazine’s website, sports- businessjoumal.com. Football Previews and Predictions The Street & Smith *s 2005 College Football Yearbook is out with its previews and predictions for the upcoming season. Three black college teams are picked in the preseason NCAA Div. I-AA Top 25 while three more made the Div. II Top 25. Two players from the MEAC were"selected as preseason I-AA all-Americans while only Fayetteville State defensive back Anthony Hicks made the Div. II squad. Grambling State, who suffered through a 6-5 2Q04 campaign after losing all- American QB Bruce Eugene in the opening game last season, gels Eugene back as a result of a medical redshirt and is the magazine’s highest ranked black college team in I- AA at No. 9. Defending MEAC champ Hampton is 11th and defending SWAC champ Alabama State is 15lh. Hampton WR/KR Marquay McDaniel and 2(X)4 MEAC Defensive Player of the Year. LB Justin Durant, were named to the I-AA all-American squad. The magazine picks Grambling and Alabama Stale to win the SWAC West and East respectively. Defending West Division champion Southern is picked to finish behind Grambling while seveial teams are expected to challenge Alabama Slate in the East. Hampton is picked to repeal in the MEAC with South Carolina State. Beihune- Cookman and Florida A&M mounting serious challenges. Eugene and teammate Lennard Patton are picked, as the top. players in the SWAC while Durant and his teammate. 1 .(X)0-yard rusher Alonzo Coleman, are picked as the MEAC’s best. Defending SIAC chm^. Albany State, the only team to defeat national champion Valdosta State last year. leads the contingent of black college teams in the D2 Top 25 at No. 10. Fayetteville State, who made the 2004 playoffs, is at No. 18 while CMA champ and Pioneer Bowl victor Shaw is 25th. IVacksters make USA team for Worlds Four athletes wiih.HBCU connections have earned spots on the USA Team for the 2005 World Outdoor Track and Field Championships to be held August 6-14 in Helsinki. Finland. Former St. Augustine’s hur dler Bershawn Jackson, former Hampton hurdler James Carter. Florida A&M half-miler Kevin Hicks and Morehouse high jumper Keith Moffatt earned spots on the team by finishing in the top three in their respective events at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the Home Depot Center June 23-26 in Carson, Ca. Jackson and Carter finished second and third in the 400 meter hurdles finals respectively. Hicks finished third in the 800 meter run and Moffatt captured third place in the high jump. Jackson, the reigning USA Indoor 400 meter champion, fin ished second in the 400 meter hur dles with a lime of 47.80 just behind Kerron Clement (47.24) and ahead of Carter (48.03). All three are sponsored by Nike. Carter, a two-time Olympian, was the US Olympic Trials cham pion last year and US Outdoor and World Cup champion in 2002. Hicks' achievement makes him the first Florida A&M track star to qualify for the World Championships in 15 years. He crossed the finish line at 1:46.99 to grab third place behind Khadevis Robinson (1:45,27) and David Krummenacker (1:46.80) in Sunday's final. Moffatt’s position on Team USA helps assuage the disappointment of not making the US Olympic Team last year. He fin ished fourth at the Olympic Trials and just MOFFATT missed making the team. Moffat just completed his sophomore year at Morehouse as did Hicks at FAMU. This year, the sophomore leaper was in the thick of the battle until the end. Although the SIAC champion and Division li All- American cleared the same height as first-place finisher Matt Hemingway (7’ 4.5"). he used all three attempts to clear the height. Hemingway cleared the bar in one attempt while second-- place finisher Jesse Williams went over the bar on his second try. Although they did not make Team USA for the World Championships, St. Augus-tine's triple jumper Tim Rusan, Howard 1 IO meter hurdler David Oliver and Jackson State 400 meter hurdler Michel Tinsley did make the finals at the USA Championships. Rusan finished seventh in the triple jump. Oliver finished eighth in the 110 meter hurdles and Tinsley finished nin th in the 400 meter hurdles. H E L S I N K I B 0 U N D Photos courtesty of USA Track and Reid THE THIRDS HAVE IT: Black college products in action at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Carson, Ca. are (I. to r.) Kevin Hicks, a sophomore at Florida A&M who finished third in the 800 meters, James Carter, formerly of Hampton who finished third in the 400 meter hurdles and Bershawn Jackson, who attended St. Augustine's and finished ahead of Carter in second in the 400 hurdles. The three will be joined on the USA team at the World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki, Finland, in August by Morehouse sophomore Keith Moffatt, who finished third in the high jump. fAZEEZCoftimuntcationa, inc VOL Xi, NO 46
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