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Sports column: Time to think some happy thoughts
I normally save the “things that make me happy” gimmick column for when I’m on vacation. Then a confluence of events this week — mostly ...
I normally save the “things that make me happy” gimmick column for when I’m on vacation. Then a confluence of events this week — mostly ...
OXFORD — Ole Miss’ football team got back to work this week, with new faces in new places and a couple of key position battles ...
Porter’s Chapel Academy and Tallulah Academy have suddenly found themselves with a hole in their football schedules. Claiborne Academy, which is a district rival of ...
If you put your nose into the wind you can already smell the concession stand smoke. Put your ear to the ground and you’ll hear ...
Seven years ago, Preston Nailor came home. Now, he’s going back to where he came of age. Nailor is leaving his job as the Vicksburg ...
Two of Warren County’s major golf tournaments have gotten a facelift. The Clear Creek Classic and Warren County Open — formerly known as the Clear ...
For the past two years, DeMichael Harris has been in something akin to NFL purgatory. He’s been good enough that the Indianapolis Colts have kept ...
High school football games will have a slightly later start for the first half of the 2022 season. The Mississippi High School Activities Association announced ...
One of my favorite historical quotes that applies to sports came from Baron de Bassompierre, the under secretary of the Belgian Foreign Office, in August ...
Eight months ago, Malcolm Butler wasn’t sure if he’d ever play football again. If he did, the idea that he would return to the New ...
Vicksburg’s youth baseball league is under new management. Dustin Chamblee, the president of the Vicksburg Warren Athletic Association, recently announced that the league’s operations will ...
The places Mark Posey and Lee Tidwell have visited over the years are some of the most desirable vacation spots in the world. The Bahamas. ...
When it comes to youth sports, some families devote their summers to traveling baseball or softball teams. Others dive into the realms of club soccer ...
Nearly 300 children in grades 1-12 attended the 8th Annual Malcolm Butler Football Camp Saturday at Vicksburg High School. The free camp was started in ...
It’s funny, in this business, how stories can cluster together. Sometimes it’s planned, like when you examine several different angles to a big topic. Other ...
During a successful and eventful eight-year NFL career, Malcolm Butler has changed addresses a few times. His hometown, though, has always been in his heart. ...
When he was 8 years old, Wayne Scott visited the Vicksburg YMCA for the first time. At 14, he got his first job there. At ...
The “chill” in Chill in the Hills will take on a different meaning starting in 2023. The 10-kilometer run and race walk, which has been ...
Malcolm Butler is back in the NFL, and so is the summer tradition he started in his hometown of Vicksburg. Nearly 300 children have registered ...
Milton Green is not shy about the potential he sees in Madison Parish High School’s football program. “It’s a gold mine,” he said. Like a ...
Gene Allen, a former football coach and local businessman who also helped start the Red Carpet Bowl, died Monday at his home in Vicksburg. He ...
Anyone who has ever played organized sports as a kid remembers the name of the teams they were on. Seemingly random local businesses around town ...
The official start of the 2022 high school football season is still five weeks away, but Warren County’s teams have been busy getting ready all ...
Stashed in his unassuming white Toyota Camry are the tools of Solomon Muhammad’s trade. A football jersey. Pads. A helmet. They’re not out of place ...
After ending a seven-year playoff drought and notching a winning record for the first time since 2008, everyone involved in Porter’s Chapel Academy’s football program ...
In his nearly two decades as an assistant and then the head coach of Vicksburg High’s boys basketball team, Kelvin Carter has seen his share ...
Saying this might be considered sacrilege to some of my fellow journalists, but I did not get into this business to change the world. I ...
The summer workout period is always an important time for high school football teams to figure out their identities and see if anyone can emerge ...