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…
Under-recruited high school seniors from the class of 2020 have the added challenge of finding homes at the next level in the aftermath of COVID-19. St. Martin’s Andre Brunt is one of those players that overcame the odds on both…
Michigan native and Dayton Alum Adam Trautman is ready to move to New Orleans leading into his rookie season on the heels of the most unique NFL Draft in league history. Before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Adam Trautman’s name,…
When it comes to the NFL Draft, it’s all about value and teams don’t have to tell you how they value a player, they show you. Just like the New Orleans Saints trading a total of four picks for just…
Major League Baseball isn’t quite the next domino ready to fall, but things could be trending in that direction. MLB and the Player’s Association are in their second week of negotiating terms to start a shortened season with the union…
When it comes to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the world of sports, the domino effect is very real. It was real when one positive test in the NBA led to a chain reaction of cancelations and it’s…
It’s been more than two months since high school athletics took a backseat to COVID-19. Seasons cut short, senior nights canceled, memories never made, and champions never crowned, but today the first signs of life from the Mississippi High School…
College baseball could have a new start date in 2022 if the new college baseball model catches any traction. Today a panel of Power Five coaches unveiled plans to start the season on the third weekend of March and the…
More than a half dozen USM baseball players could be taking the diamond again in less than a month as a part of the Deep South Summer Collegiate League, founded by Gulfport Assistant Coach Colton Caver. Those being Billy Garrity,…
Win or lose on Wednesday, the Southern Miss baseball team would have been playing its second game of the Conference USA Tournament today at MGM Park in Biloxi, But shoulda, woulda, coulda seems to be the new normal as a…
The Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College men's basketball program is hitting the restart button, for the second year in a row, having hit a home run hire with its second head coach in as many years. On Wednesday, the bulldogs…
One of the many local sporting events held hostage by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, is this year's Conference USA Tournament. The tournament was supposed to start Wednesday, with the Southern Miss Golden Eagles coming in as the two-time reigning champions.…
One of the biggest losers in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak has been the sport of baseball. Yet, there’s one league in South Mississippi that’s on the verge of doing something even before Major League Baseball does it and…
In the days, weeks, and months that followed Hurricane Katrina, the Superdome became a symbol of something much more than New Orleans Saints football rather an American comeback story. All these years later, that symbol is gonna have a new…