25 Teams in 25 Days: Gulfport Admirals
Stop number 12 on News 25’s 25 Teams in 25 Days has earned the right to get some love on the first day of official practice. Albeit two weeks later than normal due to COVID-19 August 17th is a date…
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Ocean Springs Brayson Hubbard earns USM football offer
Sophomore Ocean Springs High School athlete Brayson Hubbard announced today on Twitter that he has received an offer to play football at Southern Miss. If Hubbard were to accept the Golden Eagles offer, the high school sophomore would eventually be…
25 Teams in 25 Days: St. Martin Yellowjackets
Finally Friday at stop number 11 on News 25’s 25 Teams in 25 Days where the St. Martin football program continues to raise the bar, but heading into the 2020 season it’s one step back, two steps forward for the…
Saints announce no fans at first game
Upon Tom Brady’s departure for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the offseason, the New Orleans Saints were supposed to be the team that had the distinct pleasure of welcoming the six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback to the NFC South. However,…
SEC, ACC, Big 12 still hoping to play football this fall
(AP) – And then there were three. The Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12 and Southeastern Conference were still moving forward Tuesday with plans for a fall college football season even as two other Power Five leagues, the Big Ten and the Pac-12, called things off. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said he wanted to learn more […]
25 Teams in 25 Days: D’Iberville Warriors
For the second year in a row, August 7th just so happens to be the day News 25 checked in with the D’Iberville football program on 25 Teams in 25 Days. Also for the second year in a row, the…
25 Teams in 25 Days: East Central Hornets
When Eric Collins was introduced as the next head football coach at East Central back in December, he said God willing he would retire a hornet. More than seven months later, there’s still a lot of football to be played…
25 Teams in 25 Days: Ocean Springs Greyhounds
25 Teams in 25 Days is starting to become a staple here at News 25 as we bring back our award-winning high school football preview series for the third straight year. Stop number one is Ocean Springs. When Blake Pennock…
D’Iberville Football: Justin Walley names top four schools
Out of D’Iberville High School, three star defensive back recruit Justin Walley has announced his top four schools ahead of his senior season with the Warriors. In no particular order, Walley has it narrowed down to Mississippi State, where his…
SEC decision has impact on Southern Miss
That move by the SEC now eliminates marquee non-conference games like LSU- Texas, Oklahoma-Tennessee, and Auburn-North Carolina. Speaking of Auburn, another impact much closer to home with Southern Miss now in search of a new opponent on September 26th. The…
SEC announces conference-only model
The Southeastern Conference is widely considered to be the best conference in all of college football and now the SEC gets the chance to prove it. Today, the league announced a 10 game conference only schedule, starting September 26th and…
LSU’s Myles Brennan bulked up during quarantine
Having won a national title and the Heisman Trophy in the same year, former LSU Quarterback Joe Burrow just had arguably the best college football season in the history of the sport. Trying to fill those big shoes is St.…
No mask, no entry at Mississippi high school football games
The Mississippi High School Activities Association is still locked in on a September 4th start date for high school football and now has new guidelines in place for what those games could look like. For whatever patrons may or may…
New Orleans Saints monitoring other sports
So far so good for the New Orleans Saints with no reported cases of players testing positive for COVID-19. Veterans were the last to report for training camp on Tuesday, but will continue to get tested every day for the…
Jackson Public Schools becomes first district in MS to cancel football
A decision with no direct ties to the Gulf Coast, but a decision striking indirect fear over the fate of a 2020 high school football season on the Gulf Coast nonetheless. Today, Jackson Public Schools made the decision to cancel…
MACC postpones football season until October 1st
There’s an exception to the rule in the world of junior college football, where the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges is still going forward with a fall schedule. This afternoon, the MACC announced its decision to starts its football season…
MaxPreps recognizes St. Stanislaus trio
Comparing high school football statistics across different states or classifications is a lot like apples and oranges. But it doesn’t make those stats any less impressive for some of the best to ever come through St. Stanislaus. Ever since the…
MaxPreps recognizes St. Stanislaus trio
Comparing high school football statistics across different states or classifications is a lot like apples and oranges. But it doesn’t make those stats any less impressive for some of the best to ever come through St. Stanislaus. Ever since the…
SWAC postpones fall sports; football to be played in spring
After a report surfaced Friday that the Southwestern Athletic Conference would cancel fall sports, SWAC Commissioner Charles McClelland said that report was 100 percent inaccurate and premature. Turns out it wasn’t. Today, SWAC officials announced their decision to postpone all…
SWAC postpones fall sports; football to be played in spring
After a report surfaced Friday that the Southwestern Athletic Conference would cancel fall sports, SWAC Commissioner Charles McClelland said that report was 100 percent inaccurate and premature. Turns out it wasn’t. Today, SWAC officials announced their decision to postpone all…
Report: SWAC to cancel fall sports Monday; SWAC commissioner fires back
They say there’s two sides to every story, but in this case someone has to be right. According to a report by Brett McMurphy of Stadium Network, the Southwestern Athletic Conference is planning to announce its decision to cancel fall…
NCAA announces COVID-19 testing guidelines
What the sport of college football looks like during the 2020 season largely remains to be seen. But assuming there is college football to be played, schools are no longer in the dark when it comes to COVID-19 testing guidelines.…
MSU alum Chris Jones signs new deal with Chiefs
Dak’s former MSU teammate Chris Jones doing the exact opposite, having reportedly signed a new deal with the Kansas City Chiefs on Tuesday. According to ESPN, the two sides have agreed to a four-year deal worth $85 million, 60 million…
Dak Prescott to play under franchise tag with Cowboys
Mississippi State alum Dak Prescott will continue to bet on himself after failing to reach a long term deal with the Dallas Cowboys by Wednesday’s deadline. That means the former Bulldog will play the upcoming season under the exclusive franchise…