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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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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Winless Lady Tigers
The Lady Tigers (0-6) tried to rebound after a tough start to their season Thursday night against Wiley College (5-4), but fell short as they dropped all three sets. Lady Tigers got off to an aggressive start and was neck to neck with Wiley before losing the first set 25-20. They […]
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Every point counts
His team’s kicking game is so bad this season that Grambling State University football Coach Doug Williams is considering all viable options. Desperate for a kicker immediately, he said he’ll consider “one of the soccer girls who can kick it through the upright.” Williams said he’s open to options and suggestions, including international students […]
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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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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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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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Picking up the pieces after a shameful blowout
Tigers head coach Doug Williams said the game film from Saturday night’s 56-0 blowout loss to TCU would serve as a teaching tool for his Tiger football team. “I think what the TCU game did for us was gave our young guys a ‘look-see’ for what it takes to be a good football team,” […]
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Lost by 56, gained $400K
According to Grambling’s Athletic Director Percy Caldwell, there are numerous reasons why Grambling State (0-2) scheduled TCU (1-0) as the second game on its schedule. In spite of a one-sided 56-0 loss to the Horned Frogs on Saturday night, GSU gained a chance to measure its football team up with one of the […]
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Lady Tigers valiant in loss
It was the prefect atmosphere for victory; cheerleaders flipping, the drum line in full effect and it seemed like everyone in the small town of Grambling was squeezed into Memorial gym for the first serve. With the cameras focused on the Lady Tigers, they were unable to overcome the Devilettes of Mississippi Valley State […]