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Eddie Robinson

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Grambling’s Eddie Robinson is the Greatest Football Coach Period Winning is not the most important thing

By Kenneth Miller Special to the NNPA

Just as the Joe Paterno statue was be- Robinson led Grambling for 57 seasons ing removed in the middle of the night to 408 victories before his final game in from Beaver Stadium in Happy Valley and 1997 . He died gracefully as he had lived at while the NCAA was leveling the Penn the age of 88 in 2007 . State football program with the most se- The coach affectionately called Coach vere penalties in the history of collegiate Rob is responsible for 200 players making sports, officials in the small town of Gram- it to the NFL, but his legacy is not that he bling, LA were petitioning to restore the just won football games it is how he mold- legendary Eddie Robinson as the all time ed boys to become men and productive victory leader in college football . citizens of society . According to a recently published ar- Coach Robinson did not have an unlim- ticle in USA Today, Cynthia Breedlove, an ited budget, the best equipment and the attorney for the City of Grambling, peti- most sophisticated facilities during his tioned to the NCAA to vacate some of Pa- illustrious reign as his White contempo- terno’s wins in hopes of getting Robinson raries such as Paterno and Florida State’s restored as the recordholder . She did so Bobby Bowden had . with the backing of Grambling Mayor Ed- Paterno was considered as the win- ward Jones . ningest coach until the NCAA hammered Then on Monday, when the NCAA Penn State for the cover-up during the wiped out 111 wins from Paterno, Jones horrific Jerry Sandusky child molestation said the City was “elated” that Robinson scandal that has since tarnished his legacy . has the record back . But he said the City’s Even Bowden had victories vacated for foremost thoughts were with the victims NCAA sanctions, but Robinson’s sterling of the abuse, adding, “It’s our prayer that legacy has— at a Historically Black Col- everyone involved will heal .” lege where many of his players were not The mayor said the petition was never recruited at major White universities— meant to alter the NCAA process, just to never been questioned or tarnished . Picture is the late Coach Eddie Robinson who led Grambling for 57 seasons to 408 victories before his final game in 1997. The coach is voice the City’s position . responsible for 200 players making it to the NFL.

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Coach Eddie Robinson was affectionately known as Grambling State University will always feel that Eddie G. Following Robinson’ s death the Football Writers Coach Rob. Robinson was the smiling face of this university. Association of America named its Coach of the Year Award for Robinson.

He simply did been the first to express regret more with less. at this situation,” Pogue said . “We Former Grambling star Doug at Grambling State University will Williams, who became the first always feel that Eddie G . Robin- Black quarterback to win a Super son was the smiling face of this Bowl with the Washington Red- university . skins and is currently the head “The reason he will be known coach at his alma mater, did not as the winningest Division I celebrate in the demise of Pater- coach here is larger than football . no . He took men largely from small “Today doesn’t change any towns with virtually no equip- player’s opinion of Coach Rob,” ment to play with compared to Williams said . “Players like Fran- Penn State and most of the larger co Harris that played for (Joe Pa- universities . terno) held him in high esteem, “He was able to say to those and players that played for (Rob- men that you are somebody and inson) feel the same way . you are attending Grambling and “I don’t think (Robinson) would Grambling is the winning spirit of be happy today .” football and athletics .” “Today is mixed emotions for In 2006, the NCAA during re- me,” Robinson’s son, Eddie Rob- organization renamed a separate inson Jr . said . “I’ve talked to a lot Football Championship Subdivi- of people who’ve asked me if I was sion to only include colleges that happy . I can’t truly say that I am . qualified under the Bowl Champi- “I’ve known Coach Paterno for onship Series format, thus sepa- years, and the only thing I can say rating the records of both Paterno that I knew about him … is that and Bowden from the record of to me, he was a great coach and a Robinson . class individual . Therefore, many consider “As far as what has happened, Bowden as the winningest college I don’t have all the investigative football coach now because of the facts and I’m not close enough grouping, but the record is clear to it to say what it should be and as far as Division I victories and what it shouldn’t be .” Robinson is the all time leader . Grambling President Frank Following Robinson’ s death Pogue said he didn’t think Robin- the Football Writers Association son would have been celebrating of America named its Coach of Monday, either . the Year Award for Robinson . The “Eddie Robinson would have first recipient was Joe Paterno . Page 4 August 4 -August 10, 2012 Data Zone www.ladatanews.com

National Urban League Convention Highlights Photos by Edwin Buggage

Last week The National Urban League held its Annual Conference in New Orleans . For several days the City was abuzz with movers and shakers with people making a difference and an impact in the African-American community and Data News Weekly was there .

WDSU-TV 6 Meteorologist Damon Singleton, St. John the Baptist Parish President Natalie Renown performer , Zydeco Music Robottom, Educator and Author Dr. Andre Perry, Terry B. Jones enjoying a night of entertainment sensation Rockin Dopsie Jr. and Terry B. Jones. featuring Music at Mardi Gras World.

People of all ages were out having a good WDSU-TV 6 Medical Editor and CEO of Black Health time during NUL event. Television Dr. Corey Hebert and New Orleans Data News Weekly Editor Edwin Buggage

Data News Weekly Publisher Terry B. Jones Celebrating New Orleans Style Data News Weekly Publisher Terry B. Jones and and NUL President and Former New Orleans Businessman and Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club Mayor Marc Morial. Member Terry Williams.

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National Urban League Honors Highlights Photos by Kichea S . Burt

United States Attorney General Eric Holder, Stevie Wonder and the Honorable Justice Bernette Johnson were all honored by the National Urban League for their achievements at a lavish celebration which featured a performance by Chaka Kahn .

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Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club Hosts Event During Urban League Conference Photos by Glenn Summers

The National Urban League held its Annual Conference in New Orleans . Local and national leaders were on hand for events held throughout the conference . The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club held an event giving visitors a taste of authentic New Orleans and Data News Weekly was there .

Valuing Some Lives over Others

some life is cheap . girl” . We don’t have to go back the blurbs were humanizing . For United States, there were a scant Does it have anything to do to 2004 to find a child’s death . me, though, they were a reminder 11 gun-related deaths in Japan . with media attention? In Tusca- Two weeks ago, Heaven Sutter, of the equivalency of life and the Indeed, while the United States loosa, Ala ., a crazed man walked who had just had her hair styled lives we choose to ignore . has 90 privately held guns per 100 into a bar looking for “a Black for a trip to Disney World, was There were 12,000 gun-related people, the next largest per capita man” . He shot a man who did shot . Again the culprit was a deaths in the United States in 2008 . rate of privately held guns is in Ye- not know him, and with whom he stray bullet . Eighty percent of the gun deaths men . In contrast, China has three had no beef . He also wounded 17 Details of the lives of those in the world’s 23 richest countries guns per 100 people . other people . Why has this story who are killed humanizes them happened in the United States, The National Rifle Associa- Julianne Malveaux received only limited national at- and tugs at our heartstrings . In as did 87 percent of the deaths tion loves to say, “guns don’t kill, NNPA Columnist tention? Aurora, we have learned about a of children . We have more than people do .” As usual, they display If we spend a minute watch- man whose wife just gave birth, 270 million privately owned guns limited thinking . People with ing any news, we have heard about another who died saving his in this country . When we add the guns are the ones who kill! Why about Veronica Moser, the 6- girlfriend, of a young woman who number of military (police, sher- won’t we address that by dealing The national support for the year-old who was massacred in missed a Toronto mass murder iffs) guns, there is at least one with issues of gun and ammuni- victims of the recent Colorado Aurora . We’ve seen pictures of by a few seconds, aspired to be a gun for every man, woman, and tion control? shootings is great . However, if her smiling face and of her play- sports journalist, and was killed in child in this country . Some hark The 12 people who lost their we believe in the equivalency of ing . Certainly we can all mourn Aurora . Rarely do we hear about back to their Second Amendment lives represent a fraction of 1 per- life, what about the lives of young the tragedy of her young life be- the lives of those who are killed rights in their gun ownership, cent of those who die from gun men in Chicago, where there ing snuffed out by a madman . in the inner city, about the lives but the Second Amendment was violence annually . As we mourn have been more deaths than in Af- Still, some young lives are val- of Chelsea Cromartie and Heaven passed before assault weapons these lives, let us mourn the lives ghanistan so far this year . While ued, while others are not . One Sutter . and Glocks . If people have the of the thousands who were also the hospitals in Aurora say they of the young deaths that rocked The disproportionality of death right to bear arms, do they have killed because it is easier to buy a will cover hospital bills for those my soul was the 2004 murder commentary hits home when one to right to have 6,000 rounds of weapon than it is to buy marijuana without insurance (one in three in of Chelsea Cromartie, who sat remembers the stories in the New ammunition, obtained on the In- in most parts of our nation . Colorado), who will cover bills for in her grandmother’s window York Times after September 11, ternet? If we can’t limit guns, can Julianne Malveaux is a Washing- those who are hospitalized after a playing with her dolls when 2001 . For months, postage stamp we at least regulate the distribu- ton, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is President Emerita drive-by? We mourn some deaths she was killed by a stray bullet . sized photos accompanied short tion of ammunition? of Bennett College for Women in and ignore others, which sug- She wrote, in a classroom exer- but revealing blurbs about those In the same year that there Greensboro, N.C. gests that some life is valued and cise, that she was an “amazing who lost their lives . On one hand, were 12,000 gun deaths in the www.ladatanews.com StateData & Local Zone News August 4 -August 10, 2012 Page 7 DATA CLASSIFIED Call 504-821-7421 to Celebrating Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, place your classified ad. His Life, Music and Legacy Mailboxes by Mark

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