The saying goes ‘on any given Sunday, any team can beat any other team,’ and last Sunday, the Saints figured that out in their own backyard. The 7-1 Saints entered their match-up versus the Atlanta Falcons as 13.5 point favorites…
It was a night of firsts for Pass Christian High School last week when the football team took down Purvis 35-20 in the first round of the 4A playoffs. Pass Christian had never won a playoff game before that 15…
Girls varsity game right before the boys game, same match-up between Pass and Harrison Central. Harrison Central-39 Pass Christian-32
Pass Christian Pirates hosting a talented Harrison Central squad looking for its third win in a row. Pass Christian-62 Harrison Central-82
Some winter sports don’t really make sense, you know, the outdoor ones, but a warm basketball gym whenever News 25’s Ryan Mahan is calling for a low of 26 is something we can all get on board with. Let’s start…
After giving up an average of 32 points through the first seven games of the season, the Southern Miss defense is finally starting to live up to its nasty bunch moniker, surrendering just six points combined over the last two…
For more than a month now, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College football team has been ranked number one in the nation. The Bulldogs responded to the recognition with five more wins, capped off by the program’s 16th ever state…
It took Tim Jones all of nine games and 44 receptions, but the Biloxi High School alum finally hit pay dirt for the first time all season. On Tuesday, Jones told News 25 he was “allergic to the end zone,”…
Prior to Saturday, the last time the Southern Miss football program had beaten UAB was 2013. Well before Jay Hopson’s return to Hattiesburg in 2016 and certainly before USM’s overtime heartbreaker in 2018. The Golden Eagles made good on their…
The New Orleans Saints are as battle-tested as they come, having won five straight games with back-up quarterback Teddy Bridgewater under center and six overall upon the return of Drew Brees. So it felt pretty safe to assume the 7-1…
Moving on to the number 2 seed in region 8, Pass Christian hosting a playoff game for the second time in three years against the visiting Purvis Tornadoes. Pass Christian-35 Purvis-20
If you’re looking for regular season football, you’re barking up the wrong tree. It’s the second season here on the ‘News 25 Friday Night Showcase.’ It’s just one of those 4A kinda nights. Six local teams getting their playoff runs…
Moss Point came in tonight just 3-6 overall, but took care of business against the top teams in region 8 class 4A and walked away with their first district title in 10 years. Tigers hosting the Stone Tomcats, the four-seed…
For the first time this season, the News 25 Game of the Week is a playoff game between Poplarville and visiting St. Stanislaus. As it turns out, these two schools have quite the history in recent years as former district…
As a result of the most recent MHSAA reclassification there’s a change in class 6A that just feels wrong. We haven’t felt it during football season because regions 7 and 8 are combined to make up region 4. But now…
And a game of the week in its own right, perhaps the game of the season for Picayune in a winner-take-all regular season finale for the region 4 class 5A championship. The undefeated Maroon Tide is going head-to-head with Wayne…
Home field advantage is a lie between St. Stanislaus and Poplarville, where the home team has only won twice since Poplarville became a 4A school in 2005. Now the year is 2019 and those two rivals are slated to square…
Despite posting a 7-3 record this season, the St. Martin football team will miss out on the playoffs for the first time since 2016. However, a playoff elimination didn’t stop the Yellowjackets last week, defeating West Harrison 56-21. For any…
Let’s head to Gulfport’s Bert Jenkins Gymnasium for the WXXV Play of the Day. Jacob Snell putting that man on a screen saver, only 6’1”.
Some belated Tuesday basketball highlights back at Harrison Central. Red Rebels hosted Hattiesburg in its first home game of the brand new campaign. Harrison Central wins 53-43 in addition to a 58-28 victory for the Red Rebelettes.
St. Stanislaus and Poplarville once played a high school football game that Poplarville won 82-80. The two teams combined to finish just 4-16 during that 2012 season when both schools occupied region 8 class 4A. Since that time, both the…
Ever since the 2009 season where the New Orleans Saints won Super Bowl 44, they have been an NFL best 8-2 coming off a bye week under Head Coach Sean Payton. The Saints will look to continue that trend on…
The St. Patrick girls cross country team is taking home the 2A State Championship from today's title meet from the Choctaw Trails in Jackson. The Lady Fighting Irish accounted for three of the six runners that finished the 5K in…
After being one of four bowl eligible teams to get snubbed from actually going to a bowl game in 2018, Southern Miss is now just one win away from getting back to that six-win plateau in 2019, but right now…