Will to Win, Inc.

23/08/2022

He was tremendous!

13/06/2022

Tremendous picture!

Locke High School in Los Angeles teammates Ozzie Smith and Eddie Murray, 1973.

09/06/2022

Outstanding!

No one saw it coming — least of all, Prince George’s County, Maryland, student Caleb Smith. Smith, a color guardsman at Charles Flowers High School, thought Air Force District of Washington Maj. Gen. Joel Jackson was there Tuesday to give an assembly about the Air Force. “We really want you to...

27/04/2022

GOD first!

Hall of fame player finds Jesus!

18/04/2022

Click Link https://amzn.to/3alVI17 to View They Call Me Big House The Clarence Gaines Sr Story.

April 18, 2005, Clarence Edward “Big House” Gaines, Sr, College Basketball Hall of Fame Coach entered Omega Chapter.

The Paducah, Kentucky native attended Lincoln High School where he excelled academically and athletically, graduating as class salutatorian in 1941. Coach Gaines earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Morgan State College in 1945 and in 1950 earned his Master of Arts degree in education from Columbia University.

In 1946, Coach Gaines became the head coach for football and basketball at Winston Salem Teachers College.

He was initiated into Omega Psi Phi Fraternity through the Psi Phi Chapter in Winston Salem, North Carolina in 1948.

In 1950, Coach Gaines dropped football to concentrate on basketball, which he coached until 1993. In 1967, he led Winston Salem to the Division II NCAA Championship, the first basketball program from a historically black college or university to capture an NCAA national championship.

For that, Coach Gaines was named the Division II College Coach of the Year.

In 1982, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the only Black American inducted as a coach.

The C.E. Gaines Center, the athletic complex at Winston Salem, is named in his honor.

In 2006, he was posthumously inducted as part of the inaugural class into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.

His autobiography, “They Call Me Big House,” was published in 2004.

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16/04/2022

The most incredible basketball player in history!

Big Stars Lost Tapes presents KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR "1965 High School Highlights" from a dominant game, POWER MEMORIAL vs RICE. This appeared to be a champion...

15/04/2022

Just an amazing tribute to Kobe!

14/04/2022

Must check this out!

13/04/2022

Fantastic HBCU and Pro Basketball Player...R.I.P.

13/04/2022

Great HBCU History!

The late Alonzo "Jake" Gaither was born 119 years ago today. Gaither is pictured below giving his team a halftime speech during the 1964 Orange Blossom Classic. Long before the Universities of Miami, Florida and Florida State were winning national championships, Gaither's Florida A&M Rattlers were the first true college football powerhouse in the state. Gaither's career record was a remarkable 204-36-4, including 6 black college national championships from 1945 to 1969. His recruiting philosophy was simple. He wanted players who were "agile, mobile and hostile." In a time when Florida's major universities were segregated, Florida A&M had assembled teams made up of the finest African-American athletes in the state. During the Gaither era, Florida A&M produced 36 All Americans and sent 42 players to the NFL-- including hall of famers Willie Galimore and Bob Hayes.

Every December from 1947 to 1978, Florida A&M hosted a post season game at the Orange Bowl known as the Orange Blossom Classic. During a time of segregation, the game was Black Miami's version of the Orange Bowl Classic. Parades and festivities were held in Overtown and Liberty City during the week of the game. The Orange Blossom Classic also drew thousands of white spectators. Many came to see the extravagant halftime shows, featuring the Florida A&M marching. band.

The Rattlers were consistently among the best teams in black college football at the time and would invite the highest ranked black college team to play them in the Orange Blossom Classic. The game reached its peak of popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. Many of football's greatest players played in the Orange Blossom Classic including hall of famers, Bob Hayes (Florida A&M), Willie Davis, (Grambling), Willie Lanier (Morgan State), Leroy Kelly (Morgan State), Charlie Joiner (Grambling, John Stallworth (Alabama A&M), Harry Carson (South Carolina State) and Willie Galimore (Florida A&M). Jake Gaither passed away on February 18, 1994. He was 90 years old.

12/04/2022

I attended both Green and Gold Universities...What a honor!

Who are the best HBCU bands in the land? We rate them and explain why in a series of rankings this season. It’s time for this season’s final Undefeated HBCU Ban…

11/04/2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/04/11/edwin-bancroft-henderson-black-basketball/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&fb_news_token=ZVQA%2BDM%2BcYaoXK2d%2BfkyJw%3D%3D.e9JJ%2B9VvelY4XCxxJfEiFEIexRyZ0di38RLQvIMjveD673fBalkhD1UMcw7wtvcRKxqVugudoMVX2RSxtt2uw5iKl%2FWAxNNhf%2FA1JMROM8yOlLrnsQK9Z%2FRDUALzsIA4F4z%2Fjpfaahg1RDZri9N0%2BSnPqjUTPv%2F%2Fh47bLA4qeSpuj2aiOiLG6IJdzpuNjPQ%2Bqx9oTWcks4xjPnL5%2BpnYnw%2Fs6ZboyGyC%2BD5cnYQA9Hbck6z9wJz6qpwjkeMA1lOVUBPxDw1LzMxgmsAh5VZcxNcmUsCDiw7COx40vrqu3VzxiMen1WYAmXSPSC92KpcpEqmhqpZjTKl3ypHf0%2FiSMg%3D%3D

Edwin Bancroft Henderson brought the young sport to the Black community in his native D.C. — and across America.

11/04/2022

Applies in every walk of life!

Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code
1. Never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair
advantage.
2. Never go back on your word, or a trust confided in you.
3. Always tell the truth.
4. Be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.
5. Must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
6. Help people in distress.
7. Be a good worker.
8. Keep yourself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.
9. Respect women, parents, and his nation's laws.
10. The Cowboy is a patriot.

08/04/2022

ABA vs NBA 1973

07/04/2022

Great leaper!

Norfolk State University jumper Isaac Haywood was named the MEAC Men's Field Athlete of the Week on Wednesday, the conference announced.

05/04/2022

BEHOLD! #44

31/03/2022

A history lesson!

Cheyney State was C. Vivian Stringer’s first coaching stop. Today the program is gone.