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"We've dropped three straight and we're just tired of losing," said senior running back Terrin Usher of Rochester New York. Usher showed the homecoming crowd plenty with 10-2 rushing yards and two touchdowns. CAU wound up scoring six times in the contest and just couldn't seem to do wrong. Even in the third quarter , CAU scored on the pass completion to Antwan Bell who lost control the football at the 5.. In the scramble for the loose oval, CAU wideout Michael Wooten fell on the pigskin in the end zone. Thanks to the Panther defense led by down lineman Darrell Brown's 4 solo tackles and one assist,, George Mason just couldn't mount any credible offense and wound up giving CAU excellent field position on all of its scoring drives." I really did expect a better ballgame out of George Mason than we got from them,' said CAU Head Coach Ted Bashir. "With all I'd heard about them and all the Division 1AA schools on their schedule, I really expected a bigger battle." GM wound up the evening with a dismal four first downs which all came in the second half and only 28 rushing yards. They were as equally abysmmal passing with only 33 completed tosses. Principal quarterback BJ Quigley was 7 of 20 tosses for 33 yards. CAU principal signal caller Corey Jones, a junior from Los Angeles California, had 148 yards , completed 7 of his 16 attempts and threw three strikes in the second half. Notwithstanding the homecoming victory and shaking the losing jinx off their backs for the moment, the win represents CAU's first shutout of an opponent since 2000 when they blanked visiting Lincoln University 48-0 . It is also only the second time in as many years that the Panthers have beaten any team by more than 40 points. After that non-conference breather, however, the Panthers get back into the conference fray and have their hands full when they take on top SIAC team Albany State as the Rams homecoming opponent October 13.
"I think we can beat Albany State," said Bashir. " I have a lot of confidence in our defense. Our offense is still new and still picking up but I think we can get the job done." "We got a goal," added Usher. "We want to win these last five games" -0- I understand that former Lincoln University of Missouri head coach Jack Bush is now an assistant coach at Jackson State University under former Tuskegee head man Rick Comegy. The INSIDE scuttlebutt is that Bush had his bags packed and was practically moved to Virginia a scant few years ago to join Comegy's staff at Norfolk State until Comegy abruptly changed his mind........Speaking of Comegy, he's getting off on a good footing in his first sojourn into Division 1AA coaching ,something he'd been yearning to do for years. -0- -0- Glancing through the FAMU media guide , I noticed that one of their franchise players is Tyrone McGriff Junior, son of the late Tyrone Senior and third generation Rattler (his granddad played for the Orange and Green too,). Tyrone was a great player but I remember his distinction I also recall that Tyrone's daddy grabbed a few headlines back in the 70s when was chosen as the last player picked in the draft. -0- Georgia gained yet another college grid program. LaGrange (Georgia) College has put together a team . The Panthers are having first year blues. They''re 0-6, including last weekend's homecoming against Washington University of Missouri. -0- Former Morehouse assistant coach Roderick Stubbs is head basketball coach and assistant Athletic Director at Oxford University just down the road from Atlanta. He tutored under Morehouse head coach Grady Brewer, who was mentored by 50 plus year head cage coach Arthur McAfee, now retired and spending his days watching his protégé from the stands. Don't worry, Rod, first chance "Brew" gets, he'll be headed down Interstate 20 looking at you! -0- Got an item or comment?
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I was rather surprised to learn last weekend that the Atlanta Football Classic was the last TV game (pending any further assignments) for aerodyte broadcast crew Charles Ward and Mark Lassiter. I am hoping my hunches are wrong in surmising that these two wizards of the microphone and camera are trotted out by FOX, ESPN, ESPN-U and other college grid setups just to do games involving black college teams. If so, that is a tragedy for them. I have been privileged to know these gentlemen a good many years and have worked many a ballgame with them. You cannot find two men who better prepare themselves for whatever is put before them. I have watched their games and am convinced that they are as capable, if not more, of handling an ACC, SEC, Big 10, PAC 10 or any other 8 or 10. Georgia Public Television thinks so. They annually broadcast high school state playoff action and Mark and Charles are a big, big part of their success.
Grambling grad Jackie" Sunshine" Smith, believed to be professional boxing's only black female promoter, spent last weekend ringside at Chicago's All state arena watching and covering a Don "Only in America"King production of a WBA heavyweight championship bout between "Nikolai "Giant Russian" Valuev and contender Monte 'Two Gunz'Barrett. Many Atlanta area boxing fans will get to see a lot of that footage on ":Shine's' weekly boxing show Saturdays on Atlanta's Public Access Cable channel. By the bye, the Jacksonville Florida sistah is ready for the next level and her own big time boxing match for Atlanta. She's looking for investors ready to take her there. Visit her web site at