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.
Bluefield State returns significant star power from the 2021 Black College World Series championship team, but the Big Blues are deep as ever with the 2022 season approaching and the talented program of head coach Drew Bailey is more than…
A new age in North Carolina A&T athletics begins as the Aggies leave the Mideastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and officially transition to the Big South Conference. The move represents a leap forward for the baseball program with an eye towards…
The New York Yankees organization has hired longtime Grambling State head coach former player James Cooper following his resignation announced this week. The Yankee organization is thrilled to add Cooper as a coach to their minor league staff. Cooper will…
The Wilberforce University athletic department is prepared to name Roosevelt Barnes as its head baseball coach marking the return of collegiate baseball competition for the first time since 1940. The university’s search for a head coach led to Barnes, the…
Wilberforce University announced it will be bringing its baseball program back. Collegiate baseball has not been played on the Wilberforce, Ohio campus since 1940. On Tuesday, the school announced that its Historically Black College and University (HBCU) baseball program will…
It’s been a little more than five months since Coppin State baseball took the field concluding the 2020-2021 season and the Eagles have turned the page in preparation for a new season as they opened fall training at Joe Cannon…
Mike Hearn is no longer the head baseball coach at Huston-Tillotson. This comes in a surprise move as the Ram baseball program has not played a single game in nearly two years since the COVID pandemic spread shut down all…
Drew Bailey, who guided Bluefield State to the 2021 Black College World Series HBCU “small school” national championship a little more than 6 months ago, is hitting the recruiting trail to get top notch players. Bailey has made an immediate…
Norfolk State University baseball is facing the prospects of a rebuilding year with the losses of 10 seniors from last season’s MEAC conference championship team including Alsander Womack and Danny Hosley. Womack signed a free agent contract with the Chicago White…
Mississippi Valley State University head coach Stanley Stubbs has started fall ball this semester emphasizing discipline and hard work above anything else. The new-look Mississippi Valley State baseball program is one that consists of a handful of returnees from last…