Author: Ndumiso Shongwe

Basketball

Remembering Willis Reed: Captain, leader, and legend

“A tree is known by its fruit: a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love,” – Saint Basil.  Willis Reed’s deeds speak for themselves. His contributions and influence transcended the basketball court. The legendary […]

Sports

Diamond Tigers begin SWAC season with hot streak

Grambling State’s baseball team started hot in Southwestern Athletic Conference play.  The Tigers opened the season at 8-1 in conference play after securing a series win against Southern and two series sweep against Alcorn State and Arkansas Pine Bluff.  Grambling defeated Southern two of the three game series to open […]

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Football

G-Men working toward April 22 Black and Gold Game

Spring is a time for new beginnings. That’s something the Grambling State Tigers football team is looking to take advantage of with the Tigers looking to bounce back from a three-win season that ended with a loss against Southern in the Bayou Classic to close out their disappointing 2022 season.  […]

Sports

Tigers’ feel good about men’s hoops season, future

While the Tigers fell one game shy of earning a berth to a NCAA Men’s Basketball Play-In Tournament game, the 2022-23 season was still a historic run for the G-Men of Grambling State University. Grambling State finished with a modern-day record breaking 24 wins, ending its 2022-23 season at 24-9, […]

Sports

Grambling hoops great Willis Reed dies at 80

Legendary Grambling basketball player Willis Reed passed away Tuesday at the age of 80.  Reed was most known for his championship years with the New York Knicks. Born in the small town of Hico, Louisiana, in Lincoln Parish, Reed went on to play his entire 10-year professional career with the […]

Sports

The late ‘Prez’ Jones to have baseball jersey retired

Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones – also known as ‘Prez’ Jones – who was Grambling State University’s second president and first baseball coach, will have this weekend by getting his jersey number 30 retired.   Jones was not only the second president of Grambling State University, he also founded the university’s […]