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High School Boys Basketball: Long Beach vs. Biloxi

When it comes to an early season test, the test doesn’t get much harder than the Biloxi boys basketball program coming off last year’s incredible two loss regular season. Tonight, the Indians were taking on Long Beach led by first-year…

Dez Bryant makes Saints practice debut

The Dez Bryant era has officially begun for the New Orleans Saints who have yet another tool in the toolbox for their second-ranked offense. Today, he signed with the team and took part in his first practice. Still rocking number…

Benji Foreman resigns as Bay High coach

After being fired and then reinstated as the head football coach at Bay High in a period of less than two weeks back in March, Benji Foreman is stepping away from the program for good this time. First reported by…

Saints riding league-high seven game winning streak

At the start of the season, the Saints were dealt the league’s second hardest schedule which has so far panned out to the opposition going 31-27-1 outside of games against the Saints. Ready or not, it gets even worse in…

Dez Bryant to sign with Saints

Despite ranking second in the league in points per game, the New Orleans Saints are thin at wide receiver. Likewise, Dez Bryant has been unemployed for more than six months, but that’s all about to change. The former Dallas Cowboys…

Southern Miss still alive in the west

As a byproduct of 18 straight winning seasons in USM’s recent history, getting to bowl games is something Southern Miss does pretty routinely. That post-season journey gets a little more difficult this week against UAB. The Golden Eagles have some…

New Orleans Saints vs. Los Angeles Rams

Leading up to yesterday’s game between the Saints and Rams, something was going to have to give with both sides having combined for 14 consecutive wins prior to Sunday. The offensive teams lived up to the hype in what turned…

High School Football: Gulfport vs. Biloxi

On paper, tonight’s rivalry game between Gulfport and Biloxi doesn’t do anything to shake up the playoff picture. Gulfport is locked in as the one seed. Biloxi is out. Gulfport-34 Biloxi-20 Hancock-24 Pascagoula-21 George County-32 Meridian-6 Stone-55 Long Beach-3 Picayune-58…

News 25’s Game of the Week: St. Martin vs. D’Iberville

The Friday Night Lights are brighter than ever for tonight’s regular season finale between D’Iberville and St. Martin. Also our News 25 Game of the Week, this region 4 class 6A rivalry is upping the ante with the winner advancing…

Black and Gold Pep Rally

Well, Saints fans, if you are looking to get fired up before the game on Sunday, the Black and Gold Pep Rally will do the trick. News 25’s Jaylon Morris is at Hancock Whitney Lighthouse Park with more.

MSU’s women’s basketball media day

The Mississippi State women’s basketball team enters the new season ranked sixth in the Associated Press top 25 pre-season poll. However, thanks to graduation this year’s squad will look a little different except for the player in the middle of…

NCJAA National Signing Day around the Coast

Five athletes put pen to paper this afternoon at St. Martin as a part of NCJAA National Signing Day. Headlining the class are baseball standouts Leif Moore and RJ Fletcher, heading to Pearl River and East Central respectively. Cheerleading also…

Deuce McAllister to be Conerly keynote speaker

Former Ole Miss running back Deuce McAllister is slated to be the keynote speaker for this year’s Conerly Trophy presentation. The New Orleans Saints legend is a past winner of the award which goes to the top college football player…

Ole Miss bowl ban upheld by the NCAA

Six years later, the Ole Miss football saga finally has a conclusion. It’s not quite the one the Rebels were looking for, but the NCAA is willing to compromise on one of its original sanctions. Today, the governing body released…

LSU vs. Alabama preview

Just keep it close and see what happens: that could be the key to beating Alabama, but nobody knows because nobody’s done it. If anyone could, it would be third-ranked LSU who just so happens to play a lot of…

Former USM QB Nick Mullens could start for 49ers Thursday

San Francisco 49ers quarterback CJ Beathard is struggling to hold a football. He’s currently listed as a game-time decision for tomorrow’s match-up against the Raiders, leaving Southern Miss alum Nick Mullens as the next in line for what could be…

Saints respecting Rams pass rush

For the fourth week in a row, the New Orleans Saints are about to line it up against a team that currently ranks in the top third of the league in sacks. Next up is the Los Angeles Rams. Right…

USM QB Kwadra Griggs leaving program

The Golden Eagles are losing a quarterback they just got back with Kwadra Griggs choosing to step away from the program this week. His decision comes in the wake of a 20-17 loss at Charlotte in which he didn’t see…

PRCC names first-ever volleyball coach

Today, Pearl River Community College announced its first ever head volleyball coach. The woman for the job is former Vancleave coach Haley Chatham, fresh off her second straight class II state championship with the Lady Bulldogs. PRCC is the first…

George County defensive tackle narrows list to 14 schools

Over at George County, five star defensive tackle McKinnley Jackson is getting ahead of the curve in terms of not being able to please everyone. The junior defensive tackle is wanted by just about every major college football program in…