Mississippi High School Football News

Multiple members of the Pascagoula track team wanted to run in place of Brandon Rich on the 4x200-meter team this Saturday at the Class 5A championship meet in Pearl, but the responsibility falls to one of Rich's closest friends on the squad.

Hart averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds a game as the Lady Tigers went 36-0, captured the Class 4A state title.

A tryout last month has resulted in a scholarship for Lafayette's Tay Herod. The former Commodore, who was a member of two MHSAA Class 4A state championship teams, has signed on to play defensive back for Northwest Mississippi Community College.

Mississippi State football coach Dan Mullen was direct and to the point about the expectations for the 2013 season during a stop at the Biloxi Yacht Club Tuesday.

More than 300 Pascagoula High School students, teachers, administrators, parents and friends gathered Sunday evening at the Aaron Jones Family Interactive Center to mourn the death of one of their own and the apparent loss of another.

Due to torrential rains in the Jackson/Brandon area, the spring football jamboree at Northwest Rankin has been canceled.

The event is a two-man scramble format, with shotgun starts at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. All of the 8 a.m. spots have been sold, however.

PATRICK J. ALEXANDER/UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREThe sandbur, known on the Mississippi Coast as a rockachaw, is a pesky weed that thrives in sandy soil.

Of the record 73 underclassmen in this year's NFL draft, nearly two dozen have been projected by at least one analyst as having a chance to go in the first round.

"Life is a fleeting thing. ... I'd rather spend it coaching basketball and working with young people than I would practicing law." - Monty Noblitt Monty Noblitt's heart never left coaching, but it's taken a few trying years in his personal life to realize that's where his body should be as well.

Bolivar County Outlaws head football coach Jeremy Patterson, 16, looks on as the team works out in a recent practice.

In the quest for its first state basketball championship, Pascagoula has hired a coach that already has one on his resume.

Auburn's internal review into allegations by former players of academic fraud before the 2010 BCS championship game found no evidence of wrongdoing, athletic director Jay Jacobs said on Monday.

It seems like Duke Upshaw has been playing football at Baldwyn forever. Unfortunately for the rest of Class 2A, the athlete and defensive back has three more years to play.

New Albany Coach: Ron Price 2012 Record: 8-5 overall, 5-0 Div. 2-4A Spring Notes: Bulldogs looking to replace RB Boston Newsome, who logged 363 carries, and QB Spencer Day.

After two seasons as head football coach of the Bayou Academy Colts, Terry King made a decision that was very difficult to make.