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.
This weekend’s Historically Black College and University (HBCU) baseball scheduled games are full of action on the diamond. Fans will have a peek at how the 2022 regular season may shake out. Many of the small schools have three-game weekend…
Florida A&M University The Florida A&M baseball team swept the three-game series over Grambling State in the Ralph Garr-Bill Lucas HBCU Baseball Classic. The Rattlers won the first game on Friday 7-3 and Saturdays doubleheader 7-5 and 6-2. FAMUs first…
Florida A&M baseball sweeps the three-game series over Grambling State in the Ralph Garr-Bill Lucas HBCU Baseball Classic in Atlanta. The Rattlers won the first game on Friday 7-3 and won the doubleheader Saturday 7-5 then completed the sweep with…
Edward Waters Tigers and Marian University played an extremely rare three consecutive games against each other on the same date Saturday. Marian won the first game of the tripleheader 9-5, EWC won the second game 8-7 and the series final…
The Dillard University Athletics Department announced this morning, Feb. 24, the addition of Trennis Grant as the new head baseball coach. The Dillard baseball program is scheduled to begin playing games in the spring of 2023. “We are so proud…
Heading into this weekend, many Historically Black College and University (HBCU) baseball games begin Friday. The weekend success a lot of schools have by making adjustments to key matchups. Playing a 55-game schedule is critically important, especially when conference games…
Talladega understands it must prove it can beat quality teams on the road to get back into consideration for the NAIA National Tournament. The Tornados took a step in that direction by winning at Reinhardt University posting another victory over…
Bluefield State ended its three game losing streak with a walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth inning to win on Monday by the score of 4-3 versus the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Alfredo Carrion, who was…
With the start of the season officially in the books for all Historically Black College and University (HBCU) baseball programs, Black College Nines (BCN) takes a look at which players are making some chatter so far during the 2022 season.…
The Mississippi Valley State University baseball program, for the first time in more than two years, put up a “W” winning a doubleheader 15-3 and 16-8 marking the first win since defeating Alcorn on April 26, 2019. Mississippi Valley is…