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Gulfport QB TQ Newsome making it official with Southern Miss

Gulfport senior quarterback TQ Newsome will be signing with Southern Miss on Wednesday per his Twitter announcement yesterday. He’ll be joining future division I signee Derick Hall at the table during an 8 a.m. ceremony in Bert Jenkins Gymnasium. In…

Saints not overlooking Panthers

Following last year’s playoff victory over the Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints defensive lineman Cameron Jordan said he needed to get Cam Newton a wine bottle for beating him three times in one year. On Monday, the two teams play…

Eric Collins leaving D’Iberville for Bay High

You could say Eric Collins has a calling when it comes to his coaching expertise. Collins is leaving a 6A football program to take over as the head man at a 4A school who has just three wins in the…

Saints waive WR Brandon Marshall

The Brandon Marshall experiment is already over in New Orleans where the veteran wide receiver called home for exactly a month before getting waived by the Saints earlier today. The 13-year-old pro signed with the Black and Gold following a…

Ole Miss hires Mike Macintyre as new defensive coordinator

Even without a bowl game to look forward to, the Ole Miss football program is making waves in December. Today, Gulfport native Matt Luke announced the hiring of former Colorado head man Mike Macintyre, who won consensus National Coach of…

Saints are back-to-back NFC South Champs

Once upon a time, the NFC South was a division of parity with no team winning back-to-back titles for the first 13 years following its inception in 2002, but those days are over and that’s good news for the New…

Saints can clinch NFCS with win over Tampa Bay

After the New Orleans Saints lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first week of the regular season, the two teams went in very different directions, but will Sunday’s rematch provide a very different outcome. Well, a recent ten…

Hugh Freeze named Liberty head coach

Compared to being named the offensive coordinator of the Arizona Hotshots, former Ole Miss Head Coach Hugh Freeze just made a big step up less than two months later as the new head man at Liberty University. Today, Freeze agreed…

Previewing Outback Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Iowa

Like him or not, former Mississippi State head football coach Dan Mullen must have left the program in good shape with first year headman Joe Moorhead on the cusp of matching the team’s 2017 win total in the Outback Bowl.…

Analyzing Saints-Bucs rivalry

Back in 2011, New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sean Payton suffered a severe leg injury following a collision on the sideline against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Ever since then, those road game rivalries have been a little too close for…

Bernard Blackwell All-Star Game south practice starts Wednesday

High school football season isn’t quite over yet with the 70th annual Bernard Blackwell All-Star Game set for Saturday. The north-south affair will kick-off from Gulfport’s Milner Stadium at 11:30 a.m. with the first practices starting tomorrow at 7 p.m.…

Mississippi State accepts Outback Bowl bid

It’s back to the Sunshine State for Mississippi state who has accepted a bid to its first-ever Outback Bowl in Tampa, Florida. The Bulldogs will be taking on Iowa on New Year’s Day, having finished 2018 at number 18, its…

No bowl bid for Southern Miss

Southern Miss was denied their fourth consecutive bowl game bid. The Black and Gold, who have been bowl eligible in 22 of the past 25 seasons, rallied to win three out of their last four to even hit the six-win…

Saints minding their own business

In 2009, the New Orleans Saints had their franchise longest 13 game winning streak snapped at the hands of the Dallas Cowboys. Fast forward back to 2018, where the Black and Gold are currently riding a ten game hot streak,…

Mississippi State DT wins Conerly Trophy

Mississippi State is home to one of the best defenses in all of college football thanks in large part to Jeffrey Simmons. Tonight, MSU’s anchor on the defensive line validated his place as the best player on that defense and…

Record setting heartbreak for LSU Tigers

Back in 2009, LSU lost a game at Ole Miss due to poor clock management, coming up one second short at the Rebels’ five yard line. Which brings us to Saturday when the officials put one second back on the…

Southern Miss football is bowl eligible

USM’s bowl chances took a big hit following a heartbreaking overtime loss at UAB, but not to be denied, Southern Miss responded with two straight wins to close out the regular season. That puts the Golden Eagles at 6-5 following…

New Orleans Saints maintain singular approach

After piling on their 10th consecutive win on Thursday, it appears that the only team capable of stopping the New Orleans Saints is the Saints and their way of preventing that is being cliché. One game at a time, albeit…

Picayune’s return to 5A South State

Picayune head football Coach Dodd Lee says he’d drive all the way to Arkansas just to play in this year’s state title game. Thankfully for him, that 5A clash is less than an hour up the road in Hattiesburg, but…

Saints march to 9th straight win

There’s domination and then there’s whatever the Saints are doing. Yesterday, they ran laps around the Philadelphia Eagles en route to their ninth straight and made some history in the process as well. That 48-7 triumph is the largest margin…