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Grambling State's Shakyla Hill Somehow Records Second Career Quadruple-DoubleA year and a month ago, Shakyla Hill pulled off one of the rarest stat lines in sports: a quadruple-double in high-level basketball. (Her Grambling State team made the Division I NCAA tournament last year.) Her 15 points, 10 rebounds, 10 steals, and 10 assists against Alabama State was the first wom...

Georgia Tech Lost On A Last Second Own-BasketOh man. Georgia Tech spent the final ten minutes of their game Friday night against underdog Grambling State scrambling back from a 16-point deficit, finally grabbing a one-point lead on a Jose Alvarado three-pointer with 1:02 left on the game clock. The teams traded free throws over the next 30 sec...

N.C. Central Loses Celebration Bowl Thanks To Excessive Celebration PenaltyGrambling State won today’s Celebration Bowl 10-9 after a would-be tying touchdown had the extra point fouled up by an excessive celebration penalty....

When Basketball Media Guides Were Brutally Honest

Long ago, as a factchecker for a college basketball encyclopedia, I quickly learned to fear the SWAC. Its member schools' media guides, the official and often sole sources for history and statistics, were riddled with errors, omissions, typos, and for many seasons, simply weren't produced at all. Th...

Jackson State To Sue Grambling For Boycotting Its Homecoming Game

The Grambling football players' decision not to travel for Saturday's game left its opponent in a lurch. It was homecoming for Jackson State, which earned a forfeit win but suddenly had less than 24 hours to come up with some alternative programming for all those returning alumni. Jackson State ende...

Grambling Football Team Ends Boycott; Situation Still A Mess [Updated]

The Grambling football team's boycott in protest of shitty work conditions is now over. But that's not to say all is well. Photos of the football facility that surfaced over the weekend show just how awful things had gotten, and the university has punished two members of the student newspaper for co...

What's Behind The Grambling Football Team's Protest

Grambling's storied football program is in complete disarray. On Tuesday, players walked out of a meeting with coaches and administrators. On Wednesday, they skipped practice altogether in protest, then repeated the boycott again today. And interim coach George Ragsdale has reportedly been fired. Th...

Grambling football is in revolt: Fed up with everything from missed meals to 12-hour bus rides to an unceremoniously fired coach, Grambling State players walked out of a meeting with coaches and administrators last night. "It was basically a munity," one witness said. [Shreveport Times]...