On December 27, 1892, in a snow-dusted field in Salisbury, North Carolina, the first HBCU football game took place. The matchup featured Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith University) against Livingstone College. The players traveled by horse-drawn wagon and wore uniforms sewn by students from the industrial department at Livingstone. Biddle College won that historic defensive battle 5–0 (despite a controversial call on a Livingstone fumble recovery!). But the score is less important than the

Ice Storm Update, I’m back with another reel, and unfortunately, it looks like a significant to major Ice Storm/Winter Storm is on the way to a good portion of North Carolina. It could cause widespread power outages (some potentially long-lasting) across Central and Western North Carolina, with significant disruptions to daily life. Here’s hoping that more sleet occurs than forecasted, but now is the time to be ready for the worst. Hang in there folks, we will get through it together like we alw