Orange Bowl

Jun 6 2011

Player received improper benefits

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—As expected, the Bowl Championship Series has stripped USC of its national football championship for the 2004 season.

USC last month lost its appeal of sanctions handed down by the NCAA, which found earlier that former running back Reggie Bush and his family had received improper benefits while he was playing for the Trojans.

Dec 28 2010

Lawry's the Prime Rib

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—The Texas Christian University football team is scheduled to participate in the first half of the 55th Beef Bowl at Lawry's The Prime Rib in Beverly Hills, a tradition older than all but five current bowl games.

The Beef Bowl was conceived in 1956 by Richard N. Frank, shortly after he became Lawry's president, out of a desire "to honor the Big Ten and Pac-10 teams as champions of their conferences,'' he told City News Service in a 2009 interview.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”