By MELINDA DESLATTE The Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Months after most Louisiana voters agreed to legalize sports betting, lawmakers Thursday gave final passage to rules that will allow wagering through sports book sites, mobile apps and kiosk…
The College Football Playoff has by and large been a success, but as the last seven seasons have shown us, the current four team format is limited, but maybe…
Former Biloxi Shuckers Dillon Thomas making his Major League debut last night and what a debut it was, waiting for ten years of professional ball. Everybody was talking…
For the high school softball teams that made the playoffs, but didn’t win a state championship what they all have in common is losing their last game of the season. For…
Ole Miss baseball senior captain Tim Elko leads the Rebels with 16 home runs, despite starting 24 fewer games than Kevin Graham, the next player…
Tonight, both the Biloxi Shuckers and the Mississippi Braves had a pretty good thing going, but something was going to have to give or maybe they could both exist in the…
The Southern Miss pitching staff got a lot of the credit this year and rightfully so, leading the nation in strikeout to walk ratio heading into the Oxford Regional, but…
After making a head coaching change just a half-dozen games into the season, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College softball program had every excuse to be done playing a couple weeks ago. The Lady Bulldogs juiced every…
For most college students, staying up past midnight is pretty normal, if not expected. But even top flight college athletes aren’t used to staying up that late, at least because of a baseball game, considering most of…
Of the 24 MHSAA teams located in the six coastal counties, two of them are playing for a high school baseball state title next week. Last night, we featured the boys from Resurrection Catholic. Tonight News 25’s…
This morning at St. Patrick Catholic High School, basketball standout Drew Roth signed his National Letter of Intent with Millsaps College. The Majors are getting the total package in the form of a walking double-double machine. As…
The 1-2 Gulf Coast Monarchy is asking for support from the community as they take the field at home for the last time of the team’s inaugural season. The Coast’s only women’s pro-tackle football team is coming…
Southern Miss Pitcher Hunter Stanley threw the first pitch of Southern Miss baseball’s first game in the C-USA Tournament this morning at 12:15 a.m. and he threw a lot more before it was all said and done.…
It’s not uncommon for there to be two high schools in the same city, but it is very uncommon for those two schools to be playing for a baseball state title at the same time. Introducing Resurrection…
This week at Moss Point High School, girls basketball standout Jada Matthews signing her National Letter of Intent with Hinds Community College. Matthews had her best season as a senior, averaging five points as well as more…
For the last WXXV Student Athlete of the week of this school year, we are spotlighting a player that could go by the title ‘king of Ocean Springs,’ if a crown was swapped out for his lucky…
The Ole Miss women’s golf program wins its first ever NCAA National Championship. The Rebels are the fourth SEC team to ever win it all and the first since Alabama in 2012. Ole Miss Women’s Golfer Julia…
After working in public education for 29 years, West Harrison’s Otis Gates is retiring as head coach of the girls basketball team. The Lady Hurricanes were able to win just one game this season, but the program…
The last time and actually the first time, Mississippi State alum Ethan Small pitched at MGM Park, he made history as a part of the first-ever combined nine-inning no-hitter thrown by the Biloxi Shuckers. Last night, the…
Over at MGM Park, Biloxi Shuckers back at home, second place in the south division, hosting first place Pensacola. Pensacola-4 Biloxi-1
Throw a no-hitter and there’s a pretty good chance you’re the best player on the field. In this case, USM’s Walker Powell is the best in the league, having been named Conference USA Pitcher of the Year.…
If there’s one thing Southern Miss knows how to do and do it well, it’s how to play winning baseball at the end of May. After winning the 2016 Conference USA Tournament in Hattiesburg in 2016, USM…
The Mississippi State baseball program has been flirting around the top 10 all season long and a big reason why is Tanner Allen. Today, the senior outfielder was named Southeastern Conference Player of the Year as well…
Two Harrison Central baseball standouts are taking their talents to the next level. This afternoon, both Jeremiah Farmer and Tyler Piper signed National Letters of Intent to continue their careers on the diamond. Farmer put pen to…