Author: KEVIN KEISE

Sports

From the pressbox

The home crowd always play a vital role in sports.  It is usually difficult to walk into an opponent’s stadium into an atmosphere of loud, raging fans and leave with an effortless win, even if the team has been struggling.   Do you know what they call crowd participation in […]

Sports

Offensive struggles and turnovers hurt Kittens

Starting off 0-3 for the first time since 2006, the Grambling High Kittens are beating themselves offensively and defensively.  The Kittens offense is averaging just 13 points per game and defensively, they are allowing whopping 31 points. Also the Kittens are turning the ball over nearly five times per game […]

Arts

The lessons of a very human story

On Tuesday night, the Grambling State University Theater Department hosted it’s first play of the season with The Amen Corner. Placed in the early ’60s, the story is about a woman pastor, Sister Margaret, played by actress Ashley Boston.  The play deals with the trials and tribulations of having a […]

Features

Founder’s Sports

Over the late Eddie G. Robinson’s 57 seasons at Grambling, he won 408 college football games, the most games ever among Division I coaches, and sent over 200 players to the National Football League, including the only Super Bowl XXII MVP Doug Williams. As a result, he became the most […]

Arts

Dancing away with Miss Black Oklahoma crown

The Grambling State student who was recently crowned Miss Black Oklahoma 2013-14 believes intelligence is more important than beauty.   Ciara Wilson, a sophomore history major who was crowned on July 27., is from Tulsa, Okla. Some of her many hobbies include dancing, reading, and traveling.  Adjectives that describe Wilson are […]

Arts

Determined

It took Jamila Mamon three days, five hours and 4,300 miles to drive from Anchorage, Alaska to Grambling in August 2009. Four years, four seasons it took her to become Historical Black College University Gameday Dancer of the Week.  “It’s a great honor,” said Mamon when asked about receiving the […]

Arts

Drake hip-hop G.O.A.T.

  After Drake’s third album, Nothing Was The Same, he continues to prove why he’s already considered one of hip-hop’s G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time). Jumping on the scene in 2009 with the classic mixtape, So Far Gone, he took the game by storm. Four years later, who would have […]

Sports

Houma Boys dominate intramural football

In the last three years, the Houma Boys have taken all three flag football championships on Grambling State’s campus. Also, Houma won a state championship in 2011 and were National finalists.  Trying to make it a four- year straight team, captain Tyrone “Oooowhee” Folse said, “We’re going to keep doing […]

Features

Longtime registrar remembers Adams, early Grambling

The woman who would later be highly esteemed left Grambling in the same place she started.  Ruby Weekly Billups, who is from Vidalia, attended Grambling College in 1947 and graduated with an elementary education degree in 1951.  Billups was a student worker for the registrar’s office for four years. After […]