Category: Sports

Grambling State is the latest HBCU to sign a Name Image and Likeness (NIL) deal that would pay out student-athletes on scholarships annually.  The news was announced by ESPN reporter Pete Thamel this past Monday. Thamel’s report said that two companies — Urban Edge Network and Athylt -— have committed to the deals but that […]

Jake Lane is a senior playing baseball at Grambling State University.  Lane faced a lot of hardships when his junior year got cut short due to Covid in the spring.  “I planned to ball out and play to my best ability this season but a global pandemic ruined my baseball season for me,” he said.  […]

Lewis Matthews III is a junior linebacker for Grambling State University’s football team.  The 5’10”, 220-pound is from Ferriday where he graduated from Ferriday High School.    Q: What is a typical day like, preparing for the season? A: A typical day starts mentally. Getting my mind ready to first compete with self to be the […]

Sundiata "Sunny" Anderson is a 6'5" 240-pound defensive lineman from College Park, Ga. where he graduated from North Clayton High School. He is a sophomore playing for the Grambling State Tigers football team.    Q: When do you start playing football? A: I started playing around 4.    Q: Whats position do you play? A: […]

Klarysa O’Hara, a Grambling State University soccer player, is starting her season off right.  As many people would’ve guessed she would’ve played because she was good or because she played all her life, but we have recently found out Klarysa played soccer just to be like her bigger sister. The two played together as children […]

One of the G’s very own Dakari Betts is a freshman at Grambling.  He also Is a part of the Men’s Track and Field Team.  Betts was born and raised in Flint, Mich.  He attended Carman Ainsworth High School and soon after transferred to Hamady High School graduating from there before finding his way to […]

The Grambling State Tigers recently had their first home game, which means tailgating is back.  Houston, Texas native Kenyatta Kelly enjoyed visiting groups who were tailgating at the first home game.  Kelly originally graduated from Grambling State in 1997. She just returned to Grambling as a non-traditional student finishing her degree in sports management and […]

It’s been an up and down couple weeks for Grambling State University football.  Grambling lost last week to Alcorn State 20-24.  The team enters the sixth week of the season with a 2-3 record and currently fifth place in the SWAC West.  However, students are optimistic the G-Men will have a strong finish to the […]

Red-shirt freshman Isreal Edwards is looking forward to his sophomore season and looking to help his team go to new heights.  Isreal is from Shreveport, La. and went to Green Oaks high school, he committed to Grambling last September.  He had a breakout senior year and looks to go out there and help the GSU […]

The Grambling State baseball team overcame adversity in their first fall scrimmage against another school.  The Tigers got the chance to face an opponent in a different color uniform for the first time this fall when they hosted LSU-Alexandria in a homestand for 14 innings.  The Tigers were expected to cruise through the LSUA Generals […]