CIAA’s 2017 TV Football Schedule Includes Games on ESPN Networks, Aspire TV

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four televised games, including the CIAA Championship Game in November, will highlight the CIAA’s 2017 football season announced on Thursday. NCAA Division II announced the 18 regular-season football games that will be streamed live on ESPN3, including a CIAA championship rematch highlight between the Bowie State University Bulldogs and Winston-Salem State University […]

DRAMA…Guaranteed!

Drama…Guaranteed! By Gary Norris Gray and Michael – Louis Ingram BASN PHILADELPHIA (BASN – Soul Tree Radio/ITR): The Philadelphia Eagles released wideout DeSean Jackson. That was not the problem; it was what the Eagles organization, ESPN, and 94.1FM WIP-radio, the Philadelphia sports station stated. That number 10 DeSean Jackson had gang ties […]

Live By The Shuck, Die By The Jive!

Live By The Shuck, Die By The Jive! By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor BASN “Funk used to be a baaaaaaaad worrrrrd…” George Clinton PHILADELPHIA (BASN/STR – ITR): Back In the Day, one of the coolest things (for me, anyway) about collecting record albums was some of the great […]

VERSUS Still Doesn’t Get It

VERSUS Still Doesn’t Get It! By Gary Norris Gray, Staff Reporter BASN OAKLAND, CA (BASN/BASN NEWSROOM): Versus Television Network, formerly known as the Outdoor Life Network (OLN), emerged from the Outdoor Life magazine. OLN was launched in 1993 and became a major network with the contract of the National Hockey League in […]

Sinister Syllogisms, Part I

Sinister Syllogisms, Part I By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor BASN Syllogism: A logical scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion which must logically be true if the premises are true (i.e. “if this, then that”…) PHILADELPHIA (BASN/BASN NEWSROOM) — Maybe it’s my weird […]

Real Profanities, Part II

Real Profanities, Part II By Michael-Louis Ingram, Editor BASN [PHILADELPHIA (BASN/BASN NEWSROOM) – In our previous column, Kyle Serba, the SID at North Carolina Central University, criticized the Internet radio show “The Batchelor Pad” with supposedly painting his school in a negative light due to “inappropriate language.” Serba, who had been a […]

Developing ESP* (Elitists, Sycophants and Perverts)

Developing ESP* By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor BASN PHILADELPHIA (BASN/BASN NEWSROOM) — I vaguely remember an NFL Films interview with the great Gale Sayers; in which he spoke about seeing “two moves ahead” as he darted through opposing defenses while running with the football. Although I loved Barry Sanders, Sayers (as his […]

Murder At Savannah State

Murder at Savannah State By Michael – Louis Ingram, Editor BASN PHILADELPHIA (BASN/BASN NEWSROOM) – A few days ago, an e-mail was sent to certain staff members at BASN: ———– Forwarded message ———- From: ESPN Video Send-A-Friend <memberservices@espn.go.com> Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:43 AM Subject: ESPN Video Send-A-Friend Email To: labatchelor@blackathlete.com; […]

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