The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference announced on Tuesday that Morgan State's Kevin Thompson was selected as the conference's men's basketball Preseason Player of the Year. The Morgan State Bears who are the two time defending conference champs were also picked to finish first in the conference's preseason poll for the third consecutive year. Find out about the rest of the 2010-11 MEAC mens basketball preseason awards here.
Earlier this week President Barack Obama made a proclamation that the week of August 30th to September 5th would be national HBCU week. He called up all public officials, educators, and all the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that acknowledge the tremendous contributions these institutions and their graduates have made to our country. Read the entire story at Essence. Also see what the white house is doing for this inaugural week here.
Morgan State Alumni and sports columnist for TheNew York Times, William Rhoden took a in depth look at the current state of the black athlete and how this current position came to be in his best seller Forty Million Dollar Slaves. What if, in 1945, Jackie Robinson hadn't signed a contract to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers and had stayed instead with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League? In this book Rhoden concludes that the black community and most black athletes would have been better off. Rhoden himself was a defensive back at Morgan during the heyday of black college athletics. He was on the roster for Morgan States's historic game at Yankee Stadium against Grambling which was and still is considered the biggest black college football game ever. The book chronicles how the rise of salaries and visibility ultimately resulted in the silence of the black athlete voices on anything other then what they can do on the playing field or sell us.
Congratulations to 2008-09 Morgan State University Bears on making their first NCAA tournament is school history. After winning there second regular season title in as many years, the Bears took care of Norfolk State in the championship game 83-69. The tournament Most Outstanding Player was MSU's Reggie Holmes, who had been the team's best player all year.
Tourney MOP Reggie Holmes
2008-09 Season Highlights
Preseason Conference Champs
79-75 Win at DePaul
66-65 win at U of Maryland, College Park
13-3 in MEAC Conference
Undefeated against all MD schools
Back to Back Regular Season Conference Champs
Reggie Holmes 1st Team All-MEAC
Marquise Katley 2nd Team All- MEAC
Kevin Thompson All Rookie Team
Todd Bozeman MEAC Coach Of The Year
MSU's first round game will be March 19 against Oklahoma and Blake Griffin in Kansas City, MO
Being the YEB that I am, most of my DVDs and Tapes are of my favorite black movies and TV shows. Name it and I got it either retail or bootleg. Since I can remember, I have always been a gigantic fan of A Different World. Even though I hated the 1st season, I bought the DVD set in anticipation of getting Seasons 2-6. Where the hell is season 2??????? I have gone as far as YouTube and searching every torrent you can think of to get this set.
Season One Intro(which was the wackest one)
Viacom, who bought Ventura after it bought Urbanworks, will not release Season 2 or any after. Their excuse was that the poor sales of the Season One DVD set was evidence that the show doesn't have a fan base. What the hell are they talking about???? Who are they questioning???? Have they seen season one, that was the worst of all the seasons. Umm, A Different World was a Top 5 show for five of the six years it was on the air from 1987-1993. Many HBCU's even credit this show along with Spike Lee's "School Daze" with increasing enrollments at HBCU's by 25% during the 90's. I know I wanted to go to a HBCU because of the show.
Everyone knows that it wasn’t until the seasons went on that the show got better and picked up. It actually began to have the flavor of an HBCU campus. Debbie Allen was not only drawing from her experiences at Howard University, she had the writing staff take an annual trip to Spelman College and talked to students, faculty and administrators about the issues they dealt with.
The claim that there aren't enough A Different World fans to justify releasing seasons 2-6 of the show on DVD is some BS. It's funny how Seinfeld and Roseanne, Top 10 shows that were on during the same time span as A Different World have been fully released on DVD, but a quality black show that tackled some interesting topics back in the day such as teen pregnancy, date rape, homelessness, divesting from South Africa, Black history, interracial dating, HIV/AIDS, the Gulf War, and life after College isn't?
The importance of School Daze can't be stated enough. It gave the world a glimpse of what Black College life was and some would say still is. The issues that the movie touched on were as relevant then as they are now in today's society. This movie about homecoming weekend at a HBCU was able to capture the importance of a black college experience while still questioning its purpose and relevance in this day and time. From the problems in South Africa to shade issues here in the black community, Spike Lee used each issue to reach a different nerve. I just hope there are still the Dap's out there on these campuses trying to lift the political awareness of their fellow classmates and faculty. YEBies WAKE UP!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday to Morgan State University's Head Mens Basketball Coach Todd Bozeman. In 1993 at the age of 29 Bozeman became the youngest coach ever to take a team to the sweet sixteens. Since then he has turned around Morgan State's program to one of the top in the MEAC including winning the conference title last year and a trip to the NITs. Happy Birthday coach and good luck with the rest of the season.
Congratulation to Jerrell Guyton to winning the defensive Player of the year award this year in MEAC. Guyton is the 3rd Morgan State player in the program's history to win player of the year honor. Read the full story at MorganStateBears.
The NCAA Men's Basketball season is officially underway and Coach Bozeman and the Bears want nothing more then to build on last year's success and take the program to even higher heights. This year a regular season title is the minimum goal of the team after setting a new standard for the program last season. Anything less from this team will be a let down this year, especially because they have the talent and staff to get it done. The first home game of the season will be tonight at 7 against UMBC.
Good Luck this year Coach Boze, the staff, and team...
This weekend my Morgan State Bears will be taking on Delaware State for this year's homecoming game. Last years against Howard was one for the book, which ended with a Morgan by 3 in overtime. The Bears and Hornets of Del State will be meeting for the 51st time in the history of the two programs. Lets GO BEARS......
For more information about MSU's Homecoming checkout http://morganhomecoming.com/ for all the parties and events.
Tonight on the campus of Morgan State University in Hill Field House at 9pm, the school will bring in the new basketball season with their 2008-09 edition of Morgan Midnight Madness. This will be the first official practice of the 2008-09 Basketball season & Ring ceremony for winning the 1 ever Regular season Championship in school history!
Check out the head coach Todd Bozeman's blog at Blogging With Boze Congrats on a great season last year, and good luck on the year ahead.... Make us alumni proud
2007-08 season Jamar Smith 2008 MEAC Player of the Year
Boubacar Coly 2008 MEAC Defensive Player of the Year
Todd Bozeman MEAC Coach of the Year 14-2 in Conference; 12-0 at home
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Bishop takes a break from Law School to drop a freestyle via Twitter. He's back at it. Lets see what he has in store for the rest of the summer.
Tourney MOP Reggie Holmes
2008-09 Season Highlights
The importance of School Daze can't be stated enough. It gave the world a glimpse of what Black College life was and some would say still is. The issues that the movie touched on were as relevant then as they are now in today's society. This movie about homecoming weekend at a HBCU was able to capture the importance of a black college experience while still questioning its purpose and relevance in this day and time. From the problems in South Africa to shade issues here in the black community, Spike Lee used each issue to reach a different nerve. I just hope there are still the Dap's out there on these campuses trying to lift the political awareness of their fellow classmates and faculty. YEBies WAKE UP!!!!!!!
Congratulation to Jerrell Guyton to winning the defensive Player of the year award this year in MEAC. Guyton is the 3rd Morgan State player in the program's history to win player of the year honor. Read the full story at MorganStateBears.
Tonight on the campus of Morgan State University in Hill Field House at 9pm, the school will bring in the new basketball season with their 2008-09 edition of Morgan Midnight Madness. This will be the first official practice of the 2008-09 Basketball season & Ring ceremony for winning the 1 ever Regular season Championship in school history!
