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Mississippi State Athletics Announces Historic $8 Million Investment in the Football Program
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State Director of Athletics Zac Selmon today announced the receipt of a single pledge of $8 million to Mississippi State Athletics to advance its mission of delivering exceptional competitive resources that will uplift the Bulldogs football program. This…
Shuckers announce first pitch for 6:35 p.m. on Tuesday for game one of SLDS
BILOXI, MS – The Biloxi Shuckers have announced that game one of the Southern League Divisional Series will begin at 6:35 p.m. on Tuesday, September 17 at Keesler Federal Park against the Montgomery Biscuits. Fans can purchase tickets HERE. The…
Carr’s Saints visit Prescott’s Cowboys just as pursuit of playoff redemption starts for both QBs
By SCHUYLER DIXON Updated 6:27 PM CDT, September 12, 2024 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Dak Prescott can’t get the Cowboys deep enough in the playoffs. Derek Carr can’t get his teams into the tournament, as it is affectionally known, enough in the first…
Introducing our WXXV Student Athlete of the Week: OLA Volleyball’s Ava Davis
This week’s WXXV Student Athlete of the Week is Our Lady Academy volleyball’s senior setter Ava Davis. The sport of volleyball is known for…
Shuckers adjust schedule for final home series against M-Braves
BILOXI, MS – Due to Tropical Storm Francine, the Biloxi Shuckers and Mississippi Braves have been postponed on Tuesday and Wednesday at Keesler Federal Park. Tuesday’s game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Thursday, September 12 starting…
Former Bay High standouts hold basketball camp
Two former Bay High basketball standouts and current professional players made a return to their high school over the weekend. Former Mississippi State star Tolu Smith and brother Galen…
Derek Carr and the Saints rout the Panthers 47-10 in Klint Kubiak’s play-calling debut
By BRETT MARTEL Updated 5:52 PM CDT, September 8, 2024 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It took Derek Carr and the Saints’ new offense one series to produce a touchdown on an explosive play — and one half to score 30 points.…
Optimistic Saints and rebuilding Panthers set to unveil new offenses in NFC South clash
By BRETT MARTEL Updated 6:59 PM CDT, September 5, 2024 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A glitzy, renovated Superdome will host two new-look offenses in Week 1 of an NFL season that also will end in New Orleans. While the Saints and…
Introducing our WXXV Student Athlete of the Week St. Stanislaus 5 Star Kicker Evan Noel
Our first Student Athlete of the Week for the 2024-2025 year is St. Stanislaus football five-star Kicker Evan Noel. "Since I was nine, my dad has…
Alex Morgan retires from professional soccer and is expecting her second child
By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Soccer Writer Two-time Women’s World Cup champion Alex Morgan has announced she is pregnant with her second child and is retiring from professional soccer. The 35-year-old Morgan will play her final match with her club…
Florida State drops out of AP Top 25 after 0-2 start; Texas up to No. 3 behind Georgia, Ohio State
Florida State fell out of The Associated Press college football poll on Tuesday after starting the season 0-2, becoming just the third team to go from preseason top-10 to unranked in the first regular-season poll since the rankings expanded to 25 in 1989. Georgia…
WXXV Sports Reporter Ansley Brent reporting live from Greyhound Stadium
You know what we say at WXXV News 25, high school football is everything. We got our feet wet last Friday with jamboree action, but now it’s go time. WXXV News 25’s Sports Reporter Ansley…
WXXV Sports Reporter Ansley Brent reporting live from Greyhound Stadium
You know what we say at WXXV News 25, high school football is everything. We got our feet wet last Friday with jamboree action, but…
Tune into WXXV News 25's Friday Night Showcase tonight
Join us tonight for WXXV News 25’s Friday Night Showcase! Our 10 p.m. newscast on NBC will be transformed into all things South Mississippi football. Join Sports Director Jevan McCoskey and Sports…
NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother killed when their bicycles hit by car
By STEPHEN WHYNO Updated 9:11 AM CDT, August 30, 2024 NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and his younger brother were killed Thursday night when they were hit by a suspected drunken driver while riding bicycles in their home state of New Jersey, police said.…
WXXV Sports Reporter Ansley Brent is live at Bay High with a Friday Night Showcase preview
WXXV Sports Reporter Ansley Brent is also out in getting ready for the Friday Night Showcase. Ansley joins…
WXXV Sports Director Jevan McCoskey is live at St. Martin High with a Friday Night Showcase preview
It’s a very special day here at WXXV! Friday Night Showcase begins this evening during our 10 p.m. newscast. Right now, WXXV Sports Director Jevan McCoskey is at St.…
Friday Night Showcase kicks off tomorrow
Join us tomorrow for WXXV News 25’s first Friday Night Showcase! NBC at 10 will be transformed into all things South Mississippi football. Join Sports Director Jevan McCoskey and Sports…
Ohio State extends record AP Top 25 streak; Ole Miss has best preseason ranking since Archie Manning
By RALPH D. RUSSO Updated 11:11 AM CDT, August 12, 2024 The preseason AP Top 25 is out and some tidbits and facts about every team: — No. 1 Georgia is atop the preseason rankings for the third time in school history (2008,…
Breanna Stewart, US women's basketball team advances to gold medal game at Paris Olympics
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Breanna Stewart scored 16 points and the U.S. women advanced to their eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal game with a 85-64 victory over Australia on Friday. The Americans, who extended their Olympic winning streak…
US men's basketball team rallies to beat Serbia in Paris Olympics, will face France for gold medal
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer They scored six points in two seconds. And just like that, against what looked like overwhelming odds, the U.S. Olympic team was on its way. To a comeback. To a win. And to another…
Lyles, suffering from COVID, finishes 3rd in Olympic upset at 200 meters won by Botswana's Tebogo
By EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM Noah Lyles lost the Olympic 200 meters Thursday, falling to Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, then being tended to by medics who carted him off the track in a wheelchair suffering with what The Associated Press…
Latest US track comeback puts Quincy Hall atop the medal stand in Olympic 400 meters
By EDDIE PELLS Updated 2:39 PM CDT, August 7, 2024 SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Quincy Hall became the latest American to electrify Olympic track and field with an out-of-nowhere comeback Wednesday night, sprinting from far behind in the 400 meters to…