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.
Jackson State University, with its unanimous selection holds on to its No. 1 ranking for the sixth week in a row in Black College Nines’ 2021 Historically Black College and University (HBCU) regular season baseball poll in the large school division…
It’s a wrap in Montgomery, Alabama. After four exciting days, the 2021 Black College World Series Baseball Tournament champion has been crowned. The Bluefield State College Big Blues lost the first championship game to Xavier University of Louisiana 16-2, which…
Hugh midweek and even bigger weekend of Black College World Series action…Who’s Hot In HBCU Baseball – Week Thirteen… Bluefield State won the school’s first ever national title by defeating Xavier University of Louisiana to win HBCU baseball’s inaugural Black…
Bluefield State defeated Xavier University of Louisiana to rightfully claim HBCU Baseball inaugural Black College World Series. The path to the Black College World Series was anything but smooth. After fighting through a tough season stretch and playing in a…
Xavier University of Louisiana pitcher Blair Frederick struck out 17 opposing batters in a near perfect pitching performance against Bluefield State in its first game of the inaugural Black College World Series. Frederick ran into trouble at the start of…
Though there were some tense moments in the late innings, Bluefield State baseball overcame a one run 4-3 seventh-inning deficit with a two run inning to win the opening game of the inaugural Black College World Series on Wednesday afternoon…
The Black College World Series opening game features No. 3 seed Bluefield State Big Blue against the No. 6 seed Edward Waters Tigers in the inaugural Black College World Series HBCU baseball event hosted by the Montgomery Biscuits, home of…
The NAIA’s Association of Independent Institutions announced Tuesday that Xavier University of Louisiana is one of the five teams that qualified for its baseball championship tournament. Georgia Gwinnett’s Grizzly Baseball Complex in Lawrenceville, Ga. — that’s a suburb northeast of…
Xavier University of Louisiana is seeded No. 1 in the Black College World Series, a four-day, six-team, double-elimination baseball tournament at Montgomery, Ala. XULA (23-7), competing in this sport for the first time since 1960, will play third-seeded Bluefield State…
Alabama A&M equals program’s DI win streak record at seven with sweep at Alcorn State and ties longest since 1996… HBCU Baseball Weekend In Review – Large School Division: Norfolk State played long ball all weekend in each game, and…