Michael Coker is a collegiate baseball writer and lead contemporary news reporter for Black College Nines. He is a member and sits on the Board of Directors of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA), a member of the Black College Legends and Pioneers Committee for the National College Baseball Hall of Fame, founding member of the HBCU-Pro Sports Media Association (HBCU-PSMA), Founder and Executive Director of the Black College Championships LLC and HBCU baseball Black College World Series. Previously reported for blackcollegebaseball.com. Coker is a voter for the NCBWA NCAA Division I baseball Top 30 poll and Black College Nines’ HBCU baseball polls. Has twenty years of covering collegiate baseball. Played baseball three years under coach Jeffery Lee Jr. at Edward Waters University. Attended Oakton College, Wilberforce University and is a proud graduate of Edward Waters College in 1990 and University of Miami School of Law. Will complete Masters of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Coker is also a political contributor, consultant and conservative blogger. Founder of Secondopinionpundits – Political Web Magazine.
Pitching and defense will be a huge part of the Bethune Cookman ballclub for the 2023 season. Experience will also play a vital role for the 2023 B-CU baseball team. “We are excited to go out and compete this 2023…
Collegiate Baseball (the newspaper) has released its NCAA Division II 2023 National/Regional preseason preview and six from HBCUs are being recognized for their play. HBCU players are being recognized nationally for being impact players on their teams and for their big…
Lane College head baseball coach Donny Crawford was known to schedule tough NCAA Division II opponents when he led the Stillman College baseball program from 2005-2015. Coach Crawford was hired by Lane College this past spring after the conclusion of the…
Baseball will be returning soon for the 2023 HBCU collegiate season and there will be plenty of small school HBCU action. The HBCU baseball small school division season begins January 27th with Dillard University facing Louisiana Christian University. The following day,…
This past February, the Dillard University Athletics Department announced the addition of a baseball program and the hiring of Trennis Grant as its new head baseball coach. The Dillard baseball program is scheduled to begin playing games opening the HBCU…
HBCU baseball programs, Coppin State, Alabama State, and Southern University received votes in Collegiate Baseball’s 2023 NCAA Division I Baseball Top 50 Poll as recently announced by the publication. This is the first time in history that three Historically Black…
The publication Collegiate Baseball recently ranked the Savannah State baseball program in its 2023 NCAA Division II Pre-Season Top 40 Poll. The newspaper listed 65 top Division II teams and ranked Savannah State, a member of the Southern Intercollegiate…
Former Stillman College baseball coach Donny Crawford will be inducted into the Stillman inaugural Hall of Fame class on February 17, 2023, for guiding the Tiger baseball program to unprecedented success. After being hired in 2005 as the head baseball…
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) recently announced the restructuring of the nation’s oldest Historically Black College and University (HBCU) conference, when it held its annual Board of Directors meeting this month in Charlotte, North Carolina. The meeting resulted in…
The Clark Atlanta University baseball program is working hard, and their fall baseball league is underway. The Panthers return most of their core players and added a couple transfers and freshmen to a group that went from being dead last…