D’Iberville center Louis Paul Smith signed his national letter of intent this afternoon, alongside two of his fellow offensive lineman. The three-star recruit committed to Southern Miss back in April and never wavered in that decision despite offers from four…
Back in September, Auburn and Southern Miss went head-to-head on the gridiron with the Tigers prevailing 24-13. Somewhere, two Gulfport standouts were watching with separate vested interest as future division I signees of their respective programs. This morning, Derick Hall…
Today marks the beginning of the early signing period for high school football players going off to the next level. This morning, two Gulfport standouts signed national letters of intent with their future division one schools. Four-star linebacker Derick Hall…
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…
For the second day in a row, a local high school football coach is switching programs to another school on the Gulf Coast. After 21 years at Vancleave, Lavon Capers is retiring from the school district and moving over to…
The biggest high school basketball showcase on the Gulf Coast is ready to roll. Today, Mississippi Coast Coliseum officials announced the match-ups for Hoopsfest 2019 featuring 13 local teams in an all-day hoops competition on Saturday, January 19th. Biloxi will…
There’s been a lot of mystery surrounding the where and when of Derick Hall’s collegiate decision and now one of those questions have been answered. Today, Gulfport’s four star linebacker posted a tweet saying he’d be signing during the early…
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…
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is doing something new this year by hosting its first ever high school all-star game known as the World Bowl. Only 67 players from the Planet Earth got the invite and one of them…
St. Martin’s Ham McGee isn’t quite done with his high school football career following his addition to the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game roster on Monday. He also represented the south in Saturday’s Bernard Blackwell Classic, following his second straight 1,000 yard…
With a collection of all the best talent on one field comes a collection of all the best rivalries. Even though all-star games are a lot bigger than one team or one player, those grudges don’t just go away. Why…
It’s back to the grind for the 12 local high school football players selected for the 70th annual Bernard Blackwell All-Star Game. Today was the second day of practice ahead of Saturday’s north-south classic, with the south team holding up…
With the exception of one state champion in each classification, the unfortunate part of the high school football playoffs is every other team ending their seasons with a loss. But this week, it doesn’t have to be that way for…
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.…
Saturday, history repeated itself in the 4A State Title Game with the Poplarville Hornets coming up just short of a championship for the second time in three years. The greater the success sometimes the greater the heartbreak and that was…
Poplarville Hornet football team's last two runs to the 4A state championship game both started the same way, a season opening loss at St. Martin in 2016 and a season opening loss at Picayune in 2018. Thirty-eight wins later, Poplarville…
Resurrection Catholic looking to fill some big shoes with head football Coach Scott Sisson stepping down from the program this week. During his six seasons with the Eagles, Sisson led the team to an overall record of 51-24 including a…
Poplarville’s last two runs to the 4A state championship game both started the same way, a season opening loss at St. Martin in 2016 and a season opening loss at Picayune in 2018. Other than that, the Hornets have only…
The weekly stat lines of our News 25 Student Athlete of the Week are hard to comprehend. Poplarville running back Chase Shears has only 63 carries on the season, but 19 of those have gone for touchdowns. The standout junior…
Ocean Springs senior running back Micah Kelly is really starting to grab some attention, having pulled in yet another division I offer today. Like his cousin, Ham McGee over at St. Martin, Kelly is being recruited by Indiana State, in…
Thanksgiving and football just seem to go together, but for most people that experience is a tryptophan induced food coma before the end of the first quarter as opposed to actually playing football. East Central and Poplarville can’t afford to…
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…
St. Martin running back Ham McGee is the recipient of his second division I offer courtesy of Indiana State. The graduating senior tells News 25 his other D1 look came from Southern Miss during his sophomore year to go along…
Tonight, Poplarville was looking for its 12th win in a row, rolling out the welcome mat for the South Pike Eagles at the Hornet’s Nest. Poplarville-49 South Pike-28. Picayune-41 Laurel-22