Understanding College Football

Compliments of Guest Blogger Heels and Helmets: It’s August and college football is here!  Over the weekend, college football programs opened camped and the USA TODAY Coaches’ Poll released its 2010 Preseason Top 25.  Here are the teams that the 59 head coaches on the USA TODAY Board of Coaches voted to be on the [...]

Football Moms: National Signing Day

By Shavannia Williams, Heels & Helmets Recently, I received several questions from “football moms” seeking advice on helping their sons choose a college to play football.  So, I decided to share a few points to help moms go through college recruiting with their sons.  This is not an endorsed list from a university or the NCAA, [...]

That’s Ms. Coach! Heels and Helmets Football Update

Our resident sports expert, Shavannia Williams, writes on recent changes in football on her Heels and Helmets blog: There are tons of changes going on in the world of football.  Jake Delhomme is changing his jersey to the Cleveland Browns.  Tim Tebow is changing his throwing motion.  LaDainian Tomlinson is changing his home to the [...]

Helmets & Heels: 2nd Quarter – Defense

blackgirlgrown is proud to feature the second in a 4-part series of guest posts from Shavannia Williams of the SW Group. Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant said, “Offense sells tickets.  Defense wins championships.”  The “Bear” was a famous college football coach and is still considered the world’s greatest college football coach by many.  He led the University [...]

Helmets & Heels: 1st Quarter – Scoring and Offense

blackgirlgrown is proud to feature the first in a series of guest posts from Shavannia Williams of the SW Group. It’s fall and in America that means football! The National Football League (NFL) is in Week 4, so I’m sure by now many of you have heard your colleagues (in particular men) walking around the [...]