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25 Teams in 25 Days: Picayune Maroon Tide

We’ve hit double digits here on News 25’s ’25 Teams in 25 Days’ with Picayune serving as stop number 10 on tour. That seems pretty fitting, considering the Maroon Tide has hit double-digit wins in six out of the past…

New Orleans Saints and Michael Thomas reach new deal

New Orleans Saints star Michael Thomas is reportedly now the highest paid wide receiver in NFL history. Thomas’ agent says the Saints and Thomas have agreed on a new five-year, $100 million contract. The contract pays Thomas about $61 million…

Saints training camp continues

For the fifth day in a row, the Saints hit the practice field in preparation for the start of the season. With the first pre-season game just 11 days away, the Saints continue to inch closer to real game action.…

Southern Miss holds 21st annual Beach Bash

Fresh off last week’s Conference USA Media Days, Southern Miss Head Football Coach Jay Hopson and 18 players made their way down to the Coast tonight for one final trip prior to fall camp. USM kick starting the 2019 season…

Day one of Saints Training Camp 2019

It’s that time of the year, Who Dat Nation, football is back. The New Orleans Saints opened up training camp today as they prepare for another Super Bowl run. The ending to last year’s NFC Championship game was a hard…

New Orleans Saints Training Camp 2019

Get ready Who Dat Nation, it’s officially football season. The 2019 season is officially underway today with the start of Saints Training Camp. Fans showed up as early as 5 a.m. to claim their spots in the stands. As expected,…

25 Teams in 25 Days: Gulfport Admirals

Still heavy-hearted at stop number two on News 25’s ’25 Teams in 25 Days’, Gulfport High School is less than three weeks removed from the tragic loss of former Admiral Zae Crain, and yet exactly a month away from playing…

25 Teams in 25 Days: Gautier Gators

Here at News 25, we have the honor of claiming 25 high school football teams from across the six coastal counties as our own. “25 Teams in 25 Days” is back for a second straight year to kick off the…

Conference USA Media Days: Southern Miss

Despite being picked to finish second in the Conference USA west division this season, the Southern Miss football team isn’t taking anything for granted at C-USA Media Days, fresh off its first bowl game absence since 2014. Last year, the…

SEC Media Days: Mississippi State

Reigning SEC champion Alabama is a tough act to follow on Day Three of SEC Media Days, but Mississippi State has plenty of talking points of its own heading into 2019, chiefly among them is the graduate transfer craze. The…

Gautier High Band prepares for season

As high school football season inches closer, local high school bands are beginning preparations for their season. The Gautier High Band is in the middle of their band camp as they get ready for the start of football season. A…

SEC Media Days: Ole Miss

No longer handcuffed by scholarship reductions and a two-year post-season ban, Day Two of SEC Media Days brings a lot of excitement to a recharged Ole Miss football program led by second-year head coach and Gulfport native Matt Luke. The…

SEC Media Days: LSU Tigers

Because of things like the NFL draft, mini-camp, OTAs, training camp, and even spring ball in the college ranks, football just feels like a year-round sport. But in the same breath, it didn’t actually feel like football season until today…

New Orleans Saints training camp schedule announced Tuesday

The New Orleans Saints announced their 2019 training camp schedule yesterday, complete with 19 practice sessions. The rookies are slated to report next Thursday, July 18th with the veterans right behind them on the 25th ahead of the first practice…

Michael Thomas in line for big payday

No matter how many years Drew Brees has left in the tank as the starting quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, either he or his successor is gonna be throwing to a perennial top five receiver, if not the best…

New Orleans Saints minicamp in review

At this same time last week, New Orleans Saints legends Reggie Bush and Marques Colston from the NFL draft class of 2006 were right here on the Gulf Coast, celebrating the third annual Hall of Fame weekend in Biloxi. Now…

Alvin Kamara turning heads going into year three

Following the departure of Mark Ingram to Baltimore during the off-season, the New Orleans Saints backfield now belongs to Alvin Kamara and apparently so does the quarterback room. On the third and final day of mandatory minicamp, Kamara swapped out…

New Orleans Saints Mandatory Minicamp

After missing the first day of mandatory minicamp to testify against a San Diego jeweler over a fraudulent diamond ring, New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees can now get back to worrying about getting his hands on a second Super…

Saints and Cameron Jordan agree to extension

New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan is very much on record stating his desire to play his entire career with the New Orleans Saints. As of today, he has 52 and a half million reasons to make that happen.…

New Orleans Saints minicamp underway

On a list of guys you would except to miss day one of mandatory minicamp, the NFL’s all-time leading passer would be at the very bottom of said list, but that’s where the New Orleans Saints were today without Drew…

New Orleans Saints mandatory minicamp starts Tuesday

Whether or not the New Orleans Saints forgive the outcome of the New Orleans No-Call, they certainly haven’t forgotten, but now it’s almost time for mandatory minicamp, 141 days since that whistle was swallowed. The Saints are coming off their…

Egg Bowl hot topic at Road Dawgs Tour

In a lot of ways, Joe Moorhead could have done no wrong in his first season as head football coach at Mississippi State as long as he brought the Egg Bowl trophy back to Starkville. As it turns out, Moorhead…

Saints trade up for Erik McCoy

When Sean Payton called an onside kick to start the second half of Super Bowl 44, we all knew he was an aggressive coach. But that same aggression applies to the war room with the New Orleans Saints trading up…