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2013 News Archives IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Black Sports Legends Foundation (BSLF) 2014 Collegiate Film Festival Tour Preview Dear Alumni and Friends, The BSLF sincerely thanks you for your support at the 2013 PRE GAME HOMECOMING MEMORIAL & CELEBRATION" on October 5, 2013 at Morgan State University. The event was a resounding success. Please read our October 8, 2013 press release attachment. As CEO of BSLF which is a 501C 3 non-profit organization, I along with BSLF Board of Directors member Mr. Vince Robinson, recently met with Ms. Barbara Blount, Armstrong Corporations and Foundations Officer, and Mrs. Henri Banks, with MSU's Office of Institutional Advancement, to learn how the foundation can establish an endowment and term SCHOLARSHIP FOR OUR STUDENT ATHLETES AT MSU. |
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 8, 2013 2013 PRE- GAME HOMECOMING MEMORIAL & CELEBRATION AND 2014 COLLEGIATE FILM FESTIVAL TOUR PREVIEW Dear Friends: As president and CEO of the Black Sports Legends Foundation (BSLF), I sincerely thank you for your support and attendance at the 2013 PRE- GAME HOMECOMING MEMORIAL & CELEBRATION AND 2014 COLLEGIATE FILM FESTIVAL TOUR PREVIEW ON OCTOBER 5, 2013. We also appreciate the opportunity to recognize, remember, honor and present to our coaches and players The BSLF TRAILBLAZER CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION AND THE 2013 TRSILBLAZERS AWARD. That went to Mr. Raymond Chester former Morgan State University and Oakland Raider NFL great. The BSLF is also grateful for all the alumni and friends who shared in this historical homecoming memorial service. |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Black Sports Legends Foundation To Present A 2013 Film Festival Tour Preview And Homecoming Memorial & Celebration 2014 Film Festival to be held at Howard University and Morgan State University |
>> Click Here to Register for Event << The Black Sports Legends Foundation (BSLF) will present a 2014 Collegiate Film The purpose of the event is to honor, remember and recognize the greatness of the athletes, coaches and fans who contributed to the History, Legacy and Traditions of excellence in athletics at Morgan State University. |
Art Shell Inducted College Football Hall of Fame Atlanta The event, in coordination with the National Football Foundation (NFF), will be broadcast live on ESPN3 at 7:30 p.m. A press conference starts the activities tomorrow at 11 a.m. It will be hosted by the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta and is sold out. |
| The Forgotten Legend Morgan State University's football field is named after Earl C. Banks, and rightfully so. What Coach Banks was able to do for Morgan football still hasn't been matched. He was a staple of the black college community in and out of Baltimore. But as we give Coach Banks all of the credit that he deserves, we are guilty of doing what we so often do in American history. We've forgotten the man who laid the foundation. Eddie P. Hurt became Morgan's football coach in 1929. The problem is, there aren't too many folks still around who remember what Coach Hurt had to work with. He had to deal with an environment that did not recognize black college athletics at all. Coach Hurt and his assistant coach Talmadge L. Hill built an environment where young black men not only existed, but excelled. He did it by not only forming the blueprint, but laying the first brick. >> Click here to read more |
Sports Hall of Famer Makes Greensboro 2013 Class |
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Morgan State Athletics-Earl C. Banks Earl C. Banks, more than any other man, put Morgan State University on the map and single-handedly shaped the lives and destinies of hundreds of young black men. He was a legend in his time and one of the greatest college football coaches in the United States posting a fantastic. |
Festival Tour Preview, 2013 Homecoming Celebration and Memorial Service on Saturday, October 5, 2013 before the homecoming game at the Morgan State University Student Union Center Theatre, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. 
