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Looming thunderstorms have pushed back Grambling baseball’s weekend conference series against Texas Southern.
A doubleheader is now set for noon Sunday at Tiger Baseball Field, with a single game to follow at 1 p.m. Monday. Grambling enters the series in third place in the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s Western Division (11-21 overall; 6-6 in SWAC), four games [...]
Newly named Grambling men’s basketball coach Bobby Washington, hired nearly a week after National Signing Day, knows the task before him.
“We’ve got to hit the recruiting trail; that’s no secret,” Washington said.
So, he did: Moments after learning that Grambling would remove the interim tag he’s carried for nearly seven months, Washington was already on the [...]
Grambling will name interim Bobby Washington as its men’s basketball head coach today.
Washington succeeds Rick Duckett, who was placed on administrative last September after a player died during offseason training. During Duckett’s one season, Grambling went 6-23 overall and 4-14 in Southwestern Athletic Conference play in 2008-09.
A player-favorite, Washington “is talented and capable and has [...]
Here is a depth chart from Grambling’s ongoing spring practices: Grambling Spring 2010 depth chart.
These sessions conclude on Saturday with the annual Black and Gold Game.
Current Grambling basketball players are circulating a letter around the campus in support of interim coach Bobby Washington.
The school’s search to replace Rick Duckett has now extended past National Signing Day, with interviews taking place over the phone last week – including, reportedly, former NBA player Nick Van Exel, now an assistant at Southwestern Athletic [...]
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My friend Mary Hobdy, widow of Grambling coaching legend Fred Hobdy and former longtime secretary to GSU’s second president R.W.E. “Prez” Jones, died at approximately 3:18 p.m. today after suffering for years with cancer.
Her last public appearance came during homecoming weekend in 2009, when an endowed professorship was dedicated in Fred Hobdy’s honor.
Grambling has set a series of interviews to fill the open men’s basketball coaching position.
After a number of months with an interim coach in Bobby Washington, it’s certainly time to make a decision.
But those interviews are happening this week — and, quite incredibly, some are scheduled within the next few hours: On National signing day [...]
A dream so long unfulfilled, the Eddie G. Robinson Museum is now a star that shines almost too brightly for Wilbert Ellis.
He goes by, but not too much.
“It looks so good,” says the longtime Grambling baseball coach and athletic administrator, a Robinson family friend. “I go from time to time, but I still get so [...]
Grambling’s defenders are getting the first up-close look at Danny Reyes, as the 2009 backup quarterback gets accustomed to running this offense in the absence of Greg Dillon.
Christian Anthony, the squad’s everywhere-all-the-time end, is impressed.
“One of the things that stands out is he’s not afraid of making the tough throws,” said Anthony, the Southwestern Athletic [...]