St. Patrick Catholic High School has a new voice atop the athletic department. On Tuesday, Head Football Coach Trey Bailey was also promoted to athletic director following his first season as head man of the Fighting Irish. Bailey takes over…
Two things now significantly harder ever since the start of COVID-19 are answering questions and making decisions, especially for people like Southern Miss Athletic Director Jeremy McClain, who has to do both, under the added pressure of mitigating seven figure…
The Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, scheduled for the July 2-5 in Jones Park, has been canceled because of concerns over COVID-19, organizers said. Richie Valdez, president of the organization, announced Tuesday morning that the annual fishing tournament was cancelled.…
One of Mississippi’s top recruits from the class of 2021 is having a change of heart. Maybe not permanently, but for the time being George County’s M.J. Daniels is decommitting from Ole Miss. A four-star recruit, according to 24/7 Sports,…
Spring sports obviously got the short end of the stick as it pertains to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but all high school athletics have still been feeling the effects. The Gulfport boys basketball team wasn’t prepared to wait any longer,…
The C-USA Tournament won’t be out of the Magnolia State for very long with Southern Miss Athletics later announcing Pete Taylor Park as the host site for 2022. The baseball champions were last played in Hattiesburg in 2016, capping off…
The 2020 Conference USA Tournament was supposed to mark its fourth year in Biloxi had it not been for COVID-19. As it turns out, that would have been its last year at MGM Park as the baseball championship will now…
By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Former Auburn football coach Pat Dye has died at the age of 80. Dye took over a downtrodden program in 1981 and turned it into a Southeastern Conference power. The Lee County coroner…
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is offering a free saltwater fishing weekend this weekend. Saltwater sport fishing is open to everyone, whether they have a valid fishing license or not. That sportfishing is limited to the waters south of…
Plans are in place for the Louisiana Knights to occupy Biloxi’s MGM Park over the course of four weekends in June. Starting on the 6th, the well-renowned baseball program will play a series of games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,…
Southern Miss will be among the many NCAA Division I schools taking advantage of the June 1st restart date. As first reported by the Sun Herald, USM student athletes will begin to report back to campus on Monday and most…
Former New Orleans Saints Cornerback Eli Apple has a new home and it’s close to home for the 24-year-old DB who’s reached an agreement with NFC South rival Carolina Panthers on a one-year deal. This is the second free agent…
When Moss Point started the 2019 season with five straight losses, there wasn’t much buzz around the program. But that’s all changed thanks to a region 8 class 4A title, and a pair of future division I signees. Introducing former…
Conference USA has announced its new bowl lineup, a six year cycle spanning from 2020 to 2024. Per Thursday’s release, the league will retain annual bids to the Bahamas Bowl against a Mid-American Conference opponent as well as the R&L…
On Wednesday, the Oakland Athletics became the first Major League baseball team to announce it wouldn’t continue paying its minor league players past May 31st. The domino effect has been massive. According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, hundreds of minor league…
Earlier this month, News 25 ran a feature piece on a local high school softball player just a few weeks away from chasing her dream of playing at the next level despite being just four games into her junior season.…
By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Marathon has been canceled for the first time in its 124-year history. Organizers said Thursday that they instead will have a "virtual event" in which participants who verify that…
The MLB Players Association is calling the league’s latest financial proposal “extremely disappointing.’ On Tuesday, the Union responded to Baseball’s sliding scale proposal, meaning a rookie making the major league minimum would make a higher percentage of his salary than…
The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t been stopping some local quarterbacks and wide receivers from putting in work even before the MHSAA’s June 1st restart. The 601 Elite Quarterback and Skills Academy has been open for the summer going on three weeks…
The Mississippi High School Activities Association is on board with the June 1st restart, but it’s not always that simple. The guidelines set forth by Governor Reeves will also be met by those handed down by the MHSAA as soon…
It has been, still is, and probably will be a long road back to normalcy for all sports in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. However, that road is shaping up to be a shorter one in Mississippi per the…
A familiar foe of the Biloxi Shuckers in the Southern League, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos are making the most of what’s turning out to be a lost season. Without weekly home games to bring in revenue, the AA affiliate of…
Football and basketball came first and now all the rest as the NCAA has extended its June 1st restart date to all Division I sports. That means all student-athletes can resume voluntary on-campus workouts in a limited capacity for the…
The Ole Miss football program will be playing a Sun Belt school on the road for the first time in more than two decades and more than nine years from now. Today, it was announced the Rebels will be playing…