Tommies football Amari Powell recently put on a show for the ages. The senior QB from California in his first start of the season threw for 265 yards and three TDs, and rushed for a score himself, accounting for four of the seven touchdowns St. Thomas scored in its 55-17 victory over ValparaÃso Oct. 18. […]
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Tommies victorious in Division I matchup
The Tommies rolled to a 55-17 win over Valparaiso behind quarterback Amari Powell’s three-touchdown performance and strong contributions from Cobb-Butler, Todd, Juette, and Sneed.
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Former metro stars representing
This week’s Fab Five features: (1) Quentin Cobbs-Butler, St. Thomas receiver and national standout; (2) Minneapolis North’s Tavin Stoll and Anthony Deline, leaders of the Polars’ unbeaten regular season; (3) James Ware, back at Hopkins as an assistant; (4) Lynx spark plug Natisha Hiedeman; and (5) Abe Woldeslassie, now an assistant with Denver men’s basketball.
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Transfer portal, NIL add to the pressure on Black coaches
The double-edged new normal in college athletics today is the transfer portal and NIL (name, image and likeness). Since it was introduced in 2019, the number of men’s and women’s basketball players in the portal has increased each year from hundreds in 2019 to thousands in 2025.
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Black Coaches Make History in College Football Playoffs
Two Black head coaches, Marcus Freeman and James Franklin, are set to face off in the College Football Playoff semifinals, marking the first time two Black coaches will compete for a chance to lead their teams to the FBS national championship.
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College football 2023 is hereÂ
The 2023 MIAC season officially kicks off Saturday, Sept. 2
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ESPN+ series highlights HBCU athletes, including those who dance
‘There’s magic when you go to an HBCU campus.’
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College football and anti-Blackness
Notre Dame Assistant Anthropology Professor Tracie Canada wrote earlier this summer ‘anti-Blackness in college football. She spoke to the MSR for this column.
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The cold hard truth: college football can’t escape it
College football all this fall has been celebrating 150 years but the romanticized, celebratory recollections hide the racial myths about Blacks.