The 36th NFL Draft was held over two days, Jan. 28-29, 1971, with the Belmont Plaza Hotel in New York serving as headquarters.

The HBCU embrace of pro coaches was heightened by the splash Deion Sanders – Coach Prime as he likes to be known – made at Jackson State after a 14-year Hall of Fame career in the NFL and nine years ...

The Road to the Kentucky Derby rolls into the home stretch this weekend with the first of the "semifinal" prep races on tap ...

Former NFL coach Jeff Fisher is reportedly the front-runner to replace Eddie George at HBCU Tennessee State. The former ...

Nick Wagoner is an NFL reporter at ESPN. Nick has covered the San Francisco 49ers since 2016, having previously covered the ...

1893 — The first women’s collegiate basketball game is played at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. In this game, each basket is worth 1 point and the freshman class defeats the sophomore ...