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Sigma Frater Hip-hop Artist, PyInfamous Competes in Coors Light Search for the Coldest Competition
This week voting for the national “Coors Light Search for the Coldest” Competition begins! A brother of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. can be crowned the Coldest MC in the nation with your help. PyInfamous and three other finalists were selected in the national “Coors Light Search for The Coldest” Competition and will clash head [...]
Track Coach, Zeta Soror Kenyetta Grigsby, Moonlights In Women’s Pro Football League
Source Falls Church High School track coach Kenyetta Grigsby pushes her sprinting, jumping and hurdling athletes to perform at their peak. But when practice is over, Grigsby finds herself on the other side of things. Grigsby plays professional tackle football in the Women’s Football Alliance for the D.C. Divas, who won their eighth division title [...]
Kappa Frater Charles Keely, III Named Head Coach of Paul Quinn College Men’s Basketball Team
Source Paul Quinn College is pleased to announce the newest members of the Quinnite Nation. Charles W. Keeley, III joins the College as the head men’s basketball coach. He will oversee the program with the help of John Franklin, the newly appointed assistant men’s basketball coach and junior varsity coach. The change in leadership promises [...]
Omega Frater, NBA Legend Shaquille O’Neal Retires After 19 Seasons
Source He was a prolific producer of rebounds and record albums. And nicknames, too, as if at 7-foot-1 and 350 pounds he was too big for the simple ”Shaq” that made him an instantly recognizable, one-name star in all of his endeavors. Shaquille O’Neal had more than 28,000 points and almost 4 million Twitter followers. [...]
Sigma Frater Braylon Edwards keeps promise, pays for 100 students to attend college
Source Call former Michigan wide receiver Braylon Edwards what you will, but make sure you call him extremely charitable and a man of his word, too. CBSSports.com reports that Edwards, who was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in 2005, followed through with a promise he made four years ago through his foundation. In 2007, he [...]
Sigma Frater Ryan Howard Makes Baseball History One Swing At A Time
Source The names of the all-time greats just roll off the tongue, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth. All of them legends, all of them immediately recognizable as among the greatest run producers in major league history. In fact, Gehrig, Greenberg, DiMaggio and Ruth hold the distinction of knocking in the most [...]
National Step Show Alliance Hosts 2011 Youth Step Championships
The National Step Show Alliance (NSSA) hosted the organization’s annual Youth National Championship in April. Step teams from across the country participated. The NSSA held the National Stepping Bee step event in Arlington, Texas and the Music City Step Fest in Nashville, Tennessee. The National Stepping Bee serves as the NSSA national championship event for [...]
Zeta Soror Sherika Nicholas Receives 2010-11 RIAIAW Distinguished Athlete Award
Source After completing one of the most successful four-year careers of any athlete to come through Bryant University, Sherika Nicholas (East Patchogue, N.Y.) was honored with the 2010-11 RIAIAW Distinguished Athlete Award in a ceremony last week at CCRI in Warwick, Rhode Island. A four-year standout member of the Bryant indoor and outdoor track & field teams [...]
Phi Beta Sigma wins Oklahoma University’s 28th Annual Stompdown
Source An OU fraternity stomped out the competition to win a cash prize during an annual event Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center. The OU chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity won the Black Student Association and National Pan-Hellenic Council’s 28th annual Stompdown: The Ultimatum contest and received the grand prize of $2,500 and the “The [...]
NFL Star, Tampa Phi Beta Sigma Chapter Team Up For Flag football Fundraiser at USF
Source Pro football player George Selvie, who was a standout defensive end at the University of South Florida, returns to campus this week for the debut of a fundraiser supporting the Tampa Alumni chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. The inaugural George Selvie Classic is set for 8 a.m. Saturday at USF Fowler Fields on [...]
