GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY

The statewide budget crisis that has hit Louisiana by storm has taken its first victim locally in the sports world. Grambling president Willie Larkin announced in a letter over the weekend that Grambling is suspending its search for a new athletic director due to the “uncertainty around the University’s budget.”  Obadiah Simmons is Grambling’s interim athletic director, a position he’s held since May 2015. Simmons, a long-time Grambling employee, also serves as the interim head and director of the Department of Kinesiology, Sport and Leisure Studies, a role he has filled since 2008. Grambling has been without a permanent athletic director since Aaron James was fired in July 2014. – Sean Isabella, thenewsstar.com– Read More