For the last month-and-a-half, Southern Miss Head Men’s Basketball Coach Jay Ladner has been working from the comfort of his back porch and says he’s got a lot of business done out there. His first spring signing class is certainly…
Over at Long Beach High School, a special senior send off for 21 spring athletes who lost their senior seasons due to COVID-19. Over a two night period, the Bearcat family hit the road to honor those soon-to-be graduates with…
In the college ranks, St. Martin alum Katelyn Gruich making the most of her second chance at a senior season announcing her plans to return to South Alabama in 2021. A class of ’16 graduate, Gruich was St. Martin’s leading…
There’s no way for high schools to recreate the lost senior night for so many spring athletes from the class of 2020, but D’Iberville High School is one of many across the Gulf Coast trying to do next best thing.…
By JENNA FRYER CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR plans to restart its engines with a flurry of races at two historic tracks. NASCAR said Thursday it is set to return May 17 with an elite Cup Series race at Darlington…
One of the best high school football coaches to ever come through South Mississippi has passed away at the age of 77. As first reported by the Sun Herald, Pascagoula’s Bill Matthews died early Friday morning after battling a heart…
Bill Matthews, who coached Pascagoula and led them to state championship in 1987, died Friday morning after a long illness. He was 77. Matthews coached Pascagoula from 1986 to 1996, with future NFL pros Terrell Buckley as well as his…
First reports of contraction, now Minor League Baseball is falling victim to another report officials claim to be false. Yesterday, MiLB Contributor Joe Doyle reported the minor league season to have been canceled amidst reports of Major League Baseball’s plan…
Over the past decade, St. Stanislaus has produced some of the best high school baseball teams to ever come out of the Gulf Coast under the watch of Head Coach Mark Logan. But after 17 years, he’s turning that watch…
Given the choice to stay or go, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College softball standout Marsha Hunt is taking her talents to the next level. The sophomore first baseman has signed a National Letter of Intent with Alcorn State despite having…
Let’s head to Old Atlanta where it’s the Golden Eagles and Rebels doing battle in an ‘MLB The Show’ simulation of a game originally scheduled for March 31st at Trustmark Park in Pearl. Golden Eagles get their revenge from a…
Right now the college football season feels like anyone that’s ever walked into class late, all eyes on you wondering why you were late. Except in this case, all eyes are on college football, wondering if it’ll be late and…
Having recently signed a new two year contract to stay in New Orleans, Taysom Hill is also still very much in the mix to take snaps at quarterback or whatever other position his heart desires. The versatile Swiss Army Knife…
Upon the New Orleans Saints signing Jameis Winston to a one year contract, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback becomes just the first player since the 1970 NFL Merger to change teams after leading the league in passing yards the…
In the midst of all the craze over the ‘Last Dance’ docu-series highlight the Chicago Bulls in the 90s, there’s an unlikely South Mississippi connection to Michael Jordan and His Airness. Introducing Airness Jordan Ramey, a rising sophomore football player…
Southern Miss Wide Receiver Quez Watkin is second in a lot of things: second all time in receptions, receiving yards, and 100 yard games during his time at USM. Even second in the 40 yard dash among all wideouts at…
Perhaps a Taysom Hill 2.0 situation with the New Orleans Saints’ final pick of the 2020 NFL Draft used on Mississippi State Quarterback Tommy Stevens. The former Penn State transfer played just one season in Starkville, throwing for more than…
Taysom Hill is far from expendable in the Saints quarterback room, signing a new two-year contract on Sunday worth $21 million, $16 million of that guaranteed with a one million dollar bonus based on performance. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter,…
The New Orleans Saints and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers Quarterback Jameis Winston have a history. Part of that history includes perhaps the most awkward pre-game speech of all-time prior to a week nine NFC South clash in 2017. After that…
By Associated Press MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — A Tulane University basketball player who recently declared for the NBA draft has been charged in a Georgia slaying. Henry County Jail records show 22-year-old Teshaun Hightower was booked into jail Saturday on…
The Philadelphia Eagles select Jalen Hurts, quarterback, Oklahoma, previously Alabama, where he was a part of that 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship team. More recently, Hurts was all the buzz at the 2020 Reese’s Senior Bowl where he left…
A kid from Mississippi is looking like the successor to Todd Gurley in Los Angeles with Cam Akers going 52nd overall to the Rams in the second round. Akers attended Florida State for three years following his All-American career at…
An eventful first day of the draft for LSU Tigers who led the way with five first round picks, a new Southeastern Conference record. And that would make sense, coming off a national title with Joe Burrow going number one…
Coach Sean Payton did it again, pulling off his 21st draft day trade since 2006 and the 17th in a row for a higher draft pick. The end result is linebacker out of Wisconsin Zack Baun, who at some point…