Bethune Cookman Wildcats release 2008 football schedule

BCU will play 11 football games next season, including nine Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference games. Eight of the conference games will count in the standings, while Winston-Salem State plays its final MEAC provisional season.

The Wildcats will host Norfolk State, Delaware State, North Carolina A&T and Howard. They'll meet Florida A&M in the annual Florida Classic in Orlando on Nov. 22 and play South Carolina State, Morgan State, Winston-Salem and Hampton on the road.

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BCU 2008 Football Schedule

Sept. 6 Alabama State, 4 p.m. (home)
Sept. 13 at S.C. State, TBA
Sept. 20 Savannah State, 4 p.m. (home)
Sept. 27 Norfolk State, 4 p.m. (home)
Oct. 4 at Morgan State, 4 p.m.
Oct. 11 Delaware State, 4 p.m. (home)
Oct. 25 at Winston-Salem St., 2 p.m.
Nov. 1 North Carolina A&T, 4 p.m. (home)
Nov. 8 at Hampton, 2 p.m.
Nov. 15 Howard, 4 p.m. (home)
*-Nov. 22 vs. Florida A&M, 3:15 p.m.

*-at Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando

Bethune Cookman University Marching Wildcats Band

DSU finalizes 2008 football schedule

Delaware State University's 2008 football schedule will feature non-conference games against Kent State and Central Connecticut State, the school announced today.

The Hornets, who went 10-2 and earned their first Division I-AA playoff berth last season by winning the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, open the 2008 season Sept. 6 at home against MEAC rival Florida A&M.

“This schedule is going to be challenging,” head coach Al Lavan said in a press release. “Opening with Florida A&M and then testing ourselves against an upper level program at Kent State. It will most certainly give us the opportunity to continue to grow our football program.”

Photo: The DSU Hornets opens the 2008 season with the FAMU Rattlers in a home contest at Alumni Stadium, Dover, Delaware.

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DSU 2008 football schedule
Sept. 6, vs. Florida A&M*
Sept. 13 at Kent State
Sept. 27 vs. Central Connecticut State
Oct. 4 vs. Hampton*
Oct. 11 at Bethune-Cookman*
Oct. 18 vs. North Carolina A&T* (homecoming)
Oct. 25 at Morgan State*
Nov. 1 vs. South Carolina State*
Nov. 8 vs. Winston-Salem State
Nov. 15 at Norfolk State*
Nov. 22 at Howard*

* MEAC game
Game times to be determined

Jones, Schalch push FAMU by Alabama St.

Photo: FAMU Outfielder Jared Grace, 6-5/210 junior, Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola Junior College.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Tim Jones homered in the eighth to break a 3-3 tie and Tim Schalch added a couple insurance runs in the ninth to lead Florida A&M (14-18) past Alabama State 6-3 in a nonconference baseball game Tuesday.

Schalch also picked up the win after pitching a complete game on the mound. He held the Hornets (13-16) scoreless and with only three hits until the seventh when ASU scored three runs to tie the game. After Jones' homer in the eighth put the Rattlers up 4-3, Schalch doubled home Jared Grace and Jared Jeffries for the final tally.

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FAMU launches coalition for National Minority Cancer Awareness Week

April 20-26 is National Minority Cancer Awareness Week and Florida A&M President James Ammons launched the week off by announcing the start of a Coalition on African American Men's Health.

Administrators say the mission of the coalition is to develop, promote and sustain independent men's health research and training at FAMU. But the reasons behind forming the new group is to correct statistics which show that black men are disproportionately affected by cancer.

The coalition has been initiated to increase awareness on the disproportionate burden of cancer among the minorities and inform the public on the universities' initiatives.

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TIMEOUT

If you are a regular reader of MEAC/SWAC Sports Main Street, you may have noticed that no posts were made during the period of April 16 - April 22. The reason for the brief exodus was due to the death of my oldest brother, who died from CANCER on the evening of April 15, 2008. This is the first article that I read on my return from my trip to Montgomery, Alabama for his funeral.

Unfortunately, cancer was discovered in his body in late December 2007, and his life ended less than four (4) months later. Black men, like you and I have to understand that regular check ups with our doctors on any ailment and annual physicals are part of the screening process for early detection of cancer. It can strike at any time and at any age group; so you are never exempt from the disease, especially if you are a black male.

With more than 37,605 visitors coming from 107 countries and territories around the world to this Blog site, it is very important that our readers hear this message: Cancer is real and can strike at anytime, within any part of your body from the tip of your head to the bottom of your feet.

Florida A&M University and the Coalition on African American Men's Health are to be commended for starting such an important project.

Two of the keys to defeating cancer are to get educated and get your annual physical examinations for early detection. There is nothing we can do for my brother at this point, but his story may inspire you to start getting an annual check up for early screening and possible detection. After many tests, his cancer was finally exposed through an MRI examination, and by then, it had spread throughout his body touching every organ within, with the exception of his eyeballs.

As a committed organ donor, his finally wishes were unable to be fulfilled to improve the quality of life for others in the transplant of his organs in others, due to the contamination by cancer cells in his body. Even in death, cancer denied his final, planned request to help others live.

Cancer is real, and so is death.

Continue to enjoy MEAC/SWAC Sports Main Street and our HBCUs sports programs, but please do your part to stay healthy and live a long life - get your annual check up strong, black men.

-beepbeep

Alabama State Hornets set great store by preparations over summer

Spring practice the last few weeks was important for the Alabama State football team. Fall camp, which will begin around the first of August, will be equally meaningful.

The significance of both, however, might pale in comparison to the three and a half months in between. "This is the most crucial time for us -- the summer before fall camp starts," ASU head coach Reggie Barlow said. "We'll learn during this time what we're going to be. We'll find out a lot about our team."

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Lee Looks To Soar With The NCCU Eagles

Photo: North Carolina Central University incoming 5-10 recruit Whitney Lee, led the Class 4A Blue Streaks to a 19-8 regular season record, a district runner-up finish and a win in the state quarterfinals.

SEBRING, FL — When Whitney Lee was little, she often wore a shirt that said, "Forget the doll, give me the ball."

Years later, that mantra has paid off in the form of a Division-I college basketball scholarship, as the Sebring girls hoops standout and All-Heartland girls basketball player of the year inked a letter of intent on Tuesday to play basketball for North Carolina-Central University in Durham, N.C.

The hard-nosed, high-scoring guard and daughter of SHS head coach Mike Lee, was, perhaps not surprisingly, drawn to the school by the work ethic she saw displayed by her future teammates during a visit.

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MEAC/SWAC Challenge rotates away from Legion Field

The fourth annual MEAC/SWAC Challenge is set for Aug. 31 and, for the first time, the football game won't be held at Legion Field.

The game is moving to Orlando but the move was not unexpected because, from the birth of the event that is owned and operated by ESPN Regional Television, the plan was to hold the game on a rotating basis in the footprint of each of the two historically black college conferences.

Along with leaving SWAC country, the game also picked up Walt Disney Resort as presenting sponsor for the three-year deal.

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