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Losing

Two teams entered the Cotton Bowl with winless records and one team walked out with a win. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the Tigers (0-5). Saturday, when the game clock read 0:00, with a final score of 31-14, Grambling dropped its fifth consecutive game to the Prairie View Panthers (1-5) in the […]

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Somebody has to win

  Losing on Saturday nights has become repetitive for Grambling’s football team. The same goes for the Prairie View A&M football squad.  Week after week, game after game, the Tigers’ and the Panthers’ records continuously deteriorate. Combined, both teams hold a record of 0-9; Grambling being (0-4, 0-3 SWAC) and […]

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Women’s soccer team confident despite winless start

  Another season and the Lady Tigers soccer team’s woes continue.  After a 2011 campaign that saw the Lady Tigers go 1-17, they have started this season 0-4.   If all you looked at were the scores from their last three games – a 6-2 loss to Arkansas State, a […]

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GSU football finds kicker

  Grambling State  University has decided to give Phares Wabo of the GSU men’s intramural soccer club team a chance on the football team as the new place kicker.  “I feel like it’s something great happening in my life. I definitely want to thank God,” Wabo said on getting the […]

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Winless Lady Tigers

The Lady Tigers (0-6) tried to rebound after a tough start to their season Thursday night against Wiley College (5-4), but fell short as they dropped all three sets. Lady Tigers got off to an aggressive start and was neck to neck with Wiley before losing the first set 25-20.  […]

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Every point counts

  His team’s kicking game is so bad this season that Grambling State University football Coach Doug Williams is considering all viable options. Desperate for a kicker immediately, he said he’ll consider  “one of the soccer girls who can kick it through the upright.”  Williams said he’s open to options […]

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Lady Tigers joins 2012 Preseason Women’s NIT Field

  The Lady Tigers will be one of the 16 teams playing in the  2012 Preseason Women’s National Invitation Tournament.  The Preseason WNIT kicks off the women’s college basketball season and will be played Nov. 9-18 in a 3-game guarantee championship format. The 16-team field includes Davidson, Delaware, Duquesne, Georgetown, […]

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LADY TIGER BASKETBALL

  Grambling State’s new appointed women’s head coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs has named her assistant coaches for the 2012-13 season. Lou Hamilton, Erica Henry, and Brittanie Taylor-James will join Bibbs.  Hamilton comes in his third year assisting Bibbs. The Greenville, South Carolina native played for Charleston Southern football team before relocating […]

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From The Press box

  The loss of Zoltan Riazzo, last year’s kicker, isn’t the only reason why the G-Men (0-3) are off to a slow start this season. Of course the hammering Grambling received from TCU was expected, but in Grambling’s two one-point losses in the  Southwestern Athletic Conference, I noticed it’s more […]

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Picking up the pieces after a shameful blowout

  Tigers head coach Doug Williams said the game film from Saturday night’s 56-0 blowout loss to TCU would serve as a teaching tool for his Tiger football team. “I think what the TCU game did for us was gave our young guys a ‘look-see’ for what it takes to […]