An athletic director has resigned, a football coach is stirring public turmoil, and a contract has all but ensured litigation for the nation’s highest-profile historically Black athletic conference.
Tag: Southwestern Athletic Conference
Study Suggests Bias in Officiating of HBCU Women's Basketball Games
A new study from a Middle Tennessee State University professor suggests that women’s basketball teams at historically black colleges and universities are called for fouls at a disproportionately higher rate […]
Texas Southern Athletic Director Charles McClelland Named SWAC Commissioner
Charles McClelland, a long-serving athletic executive at two Texas Southwestern Athletic Conference institutions, was today named commissioner of the historically black Division I conference.
WATCH: Highlights from the NBPA Top 50 HBCU Basketball Combine
Morehouse College was the site of the annual National Basketball Players Association’s Top 50 HBCU Combine, featuring athletes from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
The SWAC Comes Back to Birmingham
The Southwestern Athletic Conference will return its football and basketball championships to Birmingham, AL, beginning this fall with the 2018 SWAC Football Championship.
Duer Sharp Resigns as SWAC Commissioner
Duer Sharp, the long-serving commissioner of the historically black Southwestern Athletic Conference, resigned today amid rumors of potential financial issues and concern among member school presidents about the direction of […]
SWAC Referee Suspended For Remainder of 2017 Season, Crew For One Game
One referee has been suspended for the remainder of the 2017 college football season and an entire crew for this Saturday’s contests following a botched touchdown call during last week’s […]
SWAC to Discontinue Football Championship Game
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) today announced that it will forgo its football championship game following the 2017 Toyota SWAC Football Championship. “With the creation of the Celebration Bowl as […]
NBA Players Association Announces Top 100 Basketball Camp for HBCU Athletes
Officials from the National Basketball Players Association, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and the Southwestern Athletic Conference today announced the creation of a new ‘top 100’ camp, designed to give […]
Houston Mayor Offers Bid to Relocate SWAC Headquarters
After relocating the Football and Basketball championships to Houston in 2013, it appears that Mayor Sylvester Turner wants to make the relationship between Houston and the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) […]
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