September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month and Grambling’s Sports Radio Network is partnering with Go 4 the Goal to provide awareness and funding for pediatric cancer. At many home and away sporting events, whether it is football, volleyball or soccer, Sports Radio Network personnel can be seen informing fans about childhood cancer. “We hope […]
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GSU football finds kicker
Grambling State University has decided to give Phares Wabo of the GSU men’s intramural soccer club team a chance on the football team as the new place kicker. “I feel like it’s something great happening in my life. I definitely want to thank God,” Wabo said on getting the opportunity to be a G-Man. […]
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Community gathers for breakfast
Each year Founders Week celebrates the pillars of Grambling State University and honoring its founder and first president Charles P. Adams. The breakfast brought administration, alumni, Grambling residents, students and some faculty/staff to the Black and Gold Room in the Favrot Student Union on Monday. Fans from the surrounding areas were also in attendance […]
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Women’s soccer team confident despite winless start
Another season and the Lady Tigers soccer team’s woes continue. After a 2011 campaign that saw the Lady Tigers go 1-17, they have started this season 0-4. If all you looked at were the scores from their last three games – a 6-2 loss to Arkansas State, a 4-0 loss to Northwestern State, […]
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Martha Pierce: a life of sevice
Spending over 60 years in the Grambling community, Martha Viola Pierce is a long time Gramblinite. Pierce began her career at Grambling State University in 1951, then called Grambling College, under the leadership of second president Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones. Jones, better known as “Prez”, hired Pierce just three years after graduating high school. […]
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From The Press box
The loss of Zoltan Riazzo, last year’s kicker, isn’t the only reason why the G-Men (0-3) are off to a slow start this season. Of course the hammering Grambling received from TCU was expected, but in Grambling’s two one-point losses in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, I noticed it’s more than a lack of a […]
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Undergraduate author publishes book
Creating a phenomenal concoction throughout most of his life, Jordan Gaither, president of the Delta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and executive board member of the Student Government Association is anticipating the debut of his first book; Poet’s Elixir. A senior marketing major, Gaither, who also goes by “Metaphor,” traveled from Indianapolis […]
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LADY TIGER BASKETBALL
Grambling State’s new appointed women’s head coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs has named her assistant coaches for the 2012-13 season. Lou Hamilton, Erica Henry, and Brittanie Taylor-James will join Bibbs. Hamilton comes in his third year assisting Bibbs. The Greenville, South Carolina native played for Charleston Southern football team before relocating to Fayetteville State to further […]
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Lady Tigers joins 2012 Preseason Women’s NIT Field
The Lady Tigers will be one of the 16 teams playing in the 2012 Preseason Women’s National Invitation Tournament. The Preseason WNIT kicks off the women’s college basketball season and will be played Nov. 9-18 in a 3-game guarantee championship format. The 16-team field includes Davidson, Delaware, Duquesne, Georgetown, Grambling State, Illinois State, Iowa, […]
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Create imagination
Its 9 a.m. on a Tuesday, I walked in the sketch room of Dunbar Hall, I noticed black chucks on her feet, red flannel shirt and short shorts. I said to myself that she looks like an artist straight out of Venice Beach. Her name is Krystle Ray and she is from Carson, CA, […]