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…
The entire Southern League season could still fall victim to the same fate, but even if the Shuckers don’t take the diamond in 2020, MGM Park could still have baseball as soon as June or July. Gulfport Assistant Baseball Coach…
According to Brandon Shields of Mississippigridiron.com, the Mississippi High School Activities Association will have an executive committee meeting on Thursday to discuss the potential June 1st restart. If the date is upheld, schools across the Magnolia State will immediately be…
More than five weeks after what was supposed to be Opening Day, still no Southern League baseball and it’s not trending in the right direction. Today, the league officially canceled the All-Star Game, originally scheduled for June 23rd at the…
As a follow up to last week’s report about the NFL incentivizing teams with draft picks to hire minority head coaches and general managers, the league is also expanding the Rooney Rule. The rule was established in 2003, requiring NFL…
The last time the USC football program hosted a team from the SEC, current Ole Miss Head Coach Lane Kiffin was the Trojans’ offensive coordinator. That was a 70-17 win over Arkansas that was later vacated, it’s largest victory during…
The shortest amateur draft in the history of Major League Baseball has an official start time and date. The first of five rounds will start at 6 p.m. on June 10th followed by rounds two through five at 4 p.m.…
By JENNA FRYER CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Crew chief Chad Knaus won’t get a look at the car Hendrick Motorsports built for Darlington Raceway until he gets to the track Sunday morning, a few hours before the race. Kurt Busch?…
According to multiple reports, next week the NFL owners will vote on a resolution to incentivize teams to hire minorities. Based on the plan, teams that hire a person of color as head coach would move up six spots in…
One week from today, the Christian Collegiate Academy senior class of 2020 will bid farewell to a high school departure unlike any other. Seven of those soon-to-be graduates have now taken the diamond for the last time as Bulldogs on…
New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sean Payton has a new toy. Today, the black and gold signed running back Ty Montgomery, according to Neworleans.football.com. A converted wide receiver, Montgomery will be on his fourth team in three years, having played…
It’s another Division I offer for Biloxi’s Elijah Sabbatini. On Thursday, the all-purpose football standout got the nod from Army West Point, his 19th offer overall and his 14th FBS offer. The rising senior is being recruited as a wide…
It’s safe to say every high school on the Gulf Coast is finding a way to honor their spring athletes from the senior class of 2020 and tonight Christian Collegiate Academy is taking its turn by taking the diamond one…
The Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges is extending its recruiting dead period on Thursday through May 31st. The unanimous decision is a response to the NJCAA deciding to lifts it national recruiting ban starting Friday. Commissioner Steve Martin…
For the second time in as many months, the NCAA has extended its recruiting dead period, pushing it out an additional month to June 30th after it was set to expire at the end of May. The original dead period…
As many fans eagerly await the fate of college football amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, there’s an important decision pending from Southeastern Conference school presidents. NBCSports.com is reporting that on May 22nd those universities will vote on giving student-athletes the…
Around the same time the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal was alleged to be taking place could it be that another NFL franchise was conducting a similar under-the-table operation? An explosive comment from former Pittsburg Steelers Linebacker James Harrison is…