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He Asked Tana Umaga. He Did Not Ask Me.
An account of the Durban haka from the one member of the household who was left at home.
The Coach Who Beat Savannah State 87–0 Played for Savannah State
A Division II program opened its season against the defending HBCU national champion. The result was scheduled a year in advance.
It Cannot Be Bigger Than “Dog Food”
"Human grade" is a defined term with a size limit, a facility requirement, and an all-or-nothing rule. Most people reading it on a bag know none of that.
Descending Order by Weight
The ingredient statement has exactly one rule, and the rule can be satisfied in ways that change what a list appears to say.
It Has Doubled Every Year
Urban Golf Weekend started in 2023 with 120 people. This Labor Day it sold more than 600 tickets, added an expo, and signed Lexus as title sponsor.
Pet Food Is Regulated by the States
The FDA sets the floor. The people who actually read your label, license the maker, and pull product off a shelf work for a state department of agriculture.
Five and One
All six MEAC programs played on opening weekend. Five won, and two of the wins came against CAA opponents.
Frozen at 2024
A proposed FDA rule recognizes one specific edition of the AAFCO ingredient book. Everything approved after it may not count.
How to Actually Check Whether Your Dog’s Food Was Recalled
There is no single alert that reaches everyone. Here are the four places the information actually lives, and the two things that make a lot number findable.
Minimums and Maximums
The guaranteed analysis is four numbers and none of them is the amount in the food. Here is what the panel actually promises.
Nothing Was Wrong With the Food
A recall of nearly two thousand unrelated products, and the layer of the supply chain that carries no label.
One Hundred and Nineteen Days
The FDA asked for a recall in January. It came in May. What happened in between is in the record.
1.2 Million People Watched a Game in Atlanta
The MEAC/SWAC Challenge outdrew most of the opening weekend. It was played at Center Parc, and it came down to a throw with 2:41 left.
She Said It Before the Game
Morgan State's athletic director described the end of the guarantee game five days before her team played one.
The Agency Found It First
What the Northwest Naturals recall notice says about who is doing the testing.
The Champion’s September
Prairie View A&M won the SWAC last year. It opened this one at a top-five FCS program and plays at Baylor next week.
The Conversation That Replaced the Process
When the FDA-AAFCO agreement ended, the agency offered a consultation in its place. A consultation is not an approval.
The Game That Was Cancelled, and the Hole It Left
Georgia and Florida A&M agreed to walk away from a 2028 game carrying a $650,000 guarantee. Neither side paid a penalty.
The Sentence That Decides Whether It Is Dinner
One line on a pet food label separates a complete diet from something meant to go on top of one. It is printed small and it is the most important thing on the package.
The Word “With” Is a Number
Four naming rules govern every pet food product name in America. Each one is a percentage, and the difference between them is enormous.
They Gave Up the Date
For the first time since 1984, Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern did not open the season against each other. ESPN wanted the game somewhere else.
The Top of the Ballot Is Set
Both November matchups for Governor and U.S. Senate were settled in June. Five statewide offices, fourteen congressional seats, and everything under them.
The Absentee Window Opens Monday
August 17 is the first day a Georgia voter can request a mail ballot for the November election. The last day is October 23. Almost nobody uses the ten weeks in between.
Received, Not Postmarked
A Georgia absentee ballot has to be in the county's hands by 7 p.m. on Election Day. A postmark buys you nothing.
October 5 Does Two Things
It is the last day to register to vote in November, and the first day counties may mail absentee ballots. One deadline closes a door. The other opens one.
In Line at Seven Counts
Georgia polls close at 7 p.m. on November 3. If you are in line at 6:59, you vote — however long it takes.
And the dog hanged.
In December 1792 the President of the United States put an order in writing about the dogs kept by the people he enslaved. Sixteen years later Jefferson wrote a shorter one. Then the states made it law.
Nobody Knows Where Twice a Day Came From
A 24,000-dog study found once-daily feeding tracked with better health across five categories. Four years later the standard advice hasn't moved, and the rule it questions has no cited origin.
It Isn’t a Precedent. It’s a Refusal.
The pet food press is reading the Darwin's filing as a new legal threshold. Read the six counts and it's an ordinary tool aimed at a specific behavior.
The stadium was booked
Georgia high school football starts earlier this week than it ever has. The reason has nothing to do with football.
Highwood
The oldest building on Florida A&M's campus houses the state's Black archives. It stands where the plantation house stood.
Five dollars an acre
Fifteen hundred Black farmers bought the land, put up the building, and ran the school for two terms before they asked anybody for help.
The bill before the Senate would make it illegal to cut bowling
A provision buried in the Protect College Sports Act would freeze scholarships and roster spots for nonrevenue sports at 2024–25 levels. Schools are eliminating those programs right now.
The land was not taken. It was divided.
Ninety percent of Black-owned farmland is gone. The mechanism has a name almost nobody knows.
He bought it with the Bureau’s money
The head of the Freedmen's Bureau bought the campus of the university named after him. Then it sold him an acre, cheap.
So now we have it
They sued to stop a Black university from being pushed out of New Orleans. They lost. Then they found somebody who could buy the building.
Rated A. Not a member.
In 1933 the all-white Southern Association graded Wiley excellent and told it not to consider itself one of them. Membership took another twenty-seven years.
Scoreboard
Sample layout — not live scores
Jackson State28◄
Alcorn State21Final
Southern14
Grambling State103rd Qtr · 7:42
Prairie View A&M—
Texas Southern—7:00 PM CT
Alabama A&M17
Florida A&M31◄Final
Howard24◄
Morgan State20Final
North Carolina Central—
South Carolina State—4:00 PM ET
Morehouse35◄
Clark Atlanta14Final
Albany State7
Tuskegee27◄Final
Virginia Union21◄
Virginia State13Final
Hampton17
Delaware174th Qtr · 2:15
North Carolina A&T—
Elon—6:00 PM ET
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Recall watch
Active FDA and USDA pet-food recalls, sourced and quoted verbatim. No commentary, no jokes, no exceptions. When there is nothing to report, this space says so.
No active recalls on the wire.
HBCU scores
Every conference. Every division. Not the four programs that get televised — all of them, reported the same way.
Black-owned public companies
Closing prices, tracked daily. Nine tickers, held to the same standard as any index on a morning show.
Atlanta prep
Every GHSA sport and activity, public and private, plus GISA. Including Literary and One Act Play — state championships nobody televises.