Author: DIANA SEPULVEDA

Arts

Grambling alum pens new relationship novel

Two hours before kick-off, Grambling State University alumnus Andy Brown began to set up to broadcast the Kansas City Missouri Classic for DFWi Radio, an online radio station.  Brown said he drove to his hometown to see his alma mater play.  In his left hand, the entrepreneur held a book […]

Arts

Graduate makes an impact at the NCBM Conference

Brandon Richardson will tell you hard work pays off. The Grambling State University graduate and doctoral student has been invited to the 40th National Conference of Black Mayors in Atlanta (NCBM) in Bermuda next year and has also been invited to handle the media for the 2014 World Summit of […]

Sports

Redirection, same route

Over the past two weeks, the Grambling State University football team has suffered a drastic change in losing their head coach, Super Bowl XXII MVP and four-time Southwestern Athletic Conference champion coach Doug Williams.  Some believed that dismissing Williams was the answer to turning around the football program. Despite the […]

Sports

Grambling hires Young as new athletic trainer

Grambling State University’s new athletic trainer, Vernita Young said she is looking for GSU to be the envy of the Southwestern Athletic Conference when it comes to medical care.  Young, the new director of sports medicine is a Memphis Tenn. native, who familiar with Historical Black Colleges/Universities.  Prior to being […]

Sports

Running toward perfection

Neither football nor Grambling’s World Famed Tiger Marching Band acted as a recruiting tool for senior cross-country runner Trevor Gayten.  Gayten, a 21-year-old Lafayette native, said the rich history of Grambling’s cross-country and track and field program is what brought him to the small mid-major town in Northern Louisiana. “Even […]

News

Grambling Loses Legend

Early Wednesday morning, Grambling State University fired head football coach Doug Williams days away from the G-Men’s away game in Kansas City, Mo. After just starting the football season with two losses, and an eight-game losing streak, the university thought it was best to go in a different route.  “There […]

News

‘Breaking the silence’

In the peak of a hot sunny Tuesday, students, faculty and organizations; UAAM, Sigma Gamma Rho, Phi Beta Sigma of Grambling State University, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. of Louisiana Tech, joined together to “break the silence”. The domestic violence abuse walk began at Brown Hall ending at the […]

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Sports Radio Network unceremoniously disbanded

  Grambling State students who were part of the Sports Radio Network are still uncertain as to why it has ended. They were notified by text message that the program was being disbanded following a meeting between SRN director Santoria Black and GSU administrators earlier this semester.  No one knows […]

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Moving forward

Even with a coaching change, one element will remain the same: starting quarterback.  George Ragsdale said Wednesday afternoon that D.J. Williams will keep his job for Saturday’s Missouri Classic.  “I haven’t seen any reason for him to lose his job,” said the interim head coach of Grambling State University’s football […]

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Moore announced as scholarship recipient

Grambling State University has been selected the school of the month for September by the Tom Joyner Foundation, and sophomore Pierre L. Moore was named the first of four Hercules Scholars Thursday. “It’s always nice to be tied to the Tom Joyner Foundation because it brings such national exposure to […]