Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured sports reporters in the paper's 137-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.
You’re in Four Down Territory. Each week during football season we’ll highlight four notes, nuggets, stats and trends from the weekend that was in Mississippi ...
My call for readers to submit their hunting photos a couple of weeks ago brought an unusual and humorous submission. Melissa Karpel, a self-described “vegan ...
DeMichael Harris is getting his shot in the NFL. The Vicksburg native and former St. Aloysius and Southern Miss star was elevated from the practice ...
Looking around the parking lot at the Mississippi Welcome Center on Saturday morning, Peter Kazery got a little emotional. Standing alone as the winner of ...
Glenbrook Academy didn’t beat Porter’s Chapel Academy with one big play Friday night. It beat the Eagles with a bunch of them. Jackson Powell threw ...
There is not much question that Friday’s game against Glenbrook Academy is the biggest of this season for Porter’s Chapel Academy. A win would likely ...
It’s been a long, uneven, and sometimes downright strange road for the St. Aloysius Flashes this season. They’re arriving at the end, however, exactly where ...
In any close football game, there are always one or two plays that turn the outcome. For the Vicksburg Gators, those just happen to keep ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — No. 10 Florida and defending national champion LSU are now scheduled to play in December. Unfortunately for coach Dan Mullen, the ...
Whenever he lines up to kick the football, Josh Griffin has one goal — split the uprights. Warren Central’s cannon-legged senior kicker has done it ...
When his phone rang last week, Kelvin Carter did not immediately recognize the number. He answered anyway, and was taken aback when he heard the ...
Three weeks ago, Mississippi State was the talk of college football. Mike Leach’s Air Raid offense had just lit up LSU’s vaunted pass defense for ...
You’re in Four Down Territory. Each week, we’ll highlight four notes, nuggets, stats and trends from the weekend that was in Mississippi high school football, ...
With Hurricane Delta wiping out most of the weekend sports calendar in Vicksburg, and also forcing us to hunker down for a couple of days, ...
While Hurricane Delta approached Vicksburg from the south on Friday, a different kind of hurricane blew in off the Delta from the north and swept ...
There will be, Warren Central hopes, bigger games and higher highs than what they experienced Thursday night. No matter what happens in the next two ...
OXFORD — Hurricane Delta has altered the plans for another Southeastern Conference football game. On Thursday, the league office announced that kickoff of the Alabama ...
One of the biggest running events in the Mississippi Delta has been postponed because of the arrival of Hurricane Delta. The 32nd annual Over the ...
The past couple of years, Porter’s Chapel Academy has entered the month of October with a mathematical chance at the postseason, but not a realistic ...
Early this week, as teams scrambled to adjust their schedules and move games to Thursday to avoid the wrath of the approaching Hurricane Delta, Vicksburg ...
One of the benefits of winning, Warren Central head coach Josh Morgan likes to point out, is that it leads to bigger and more important ...
A week or two ago, the St. Aloysius Flashes were talking about finding moral victories and thinking about playing out the string on a dismal ...
You’re in Four Down Territory. Each week during football season we’ll highlight four notes, nuggets, stats or trends from the weekend that was in Mississippi ...
For the 32nd year in a row, Vicksburg’s residents will have a chance to test their mettle in a race across the Mississippi River and ...
Of all the activities in the world, perhaps none is more suited for the COVID-19 era than hunting. Social distancing is mandatory. So is being ...
There was no miraculous comeback for the Vicksburg Gators this time, no fantastic finish. Just a loss and, head coach Todd McDaniel hopes, a hard ...
There comes a point in every season where its path becomes evident and the goals shift, from dreaming of championships to scrambling for scraps of ...
Tuesday morning, while running between classes and other appointments, Porter’s Chapel Academy football coach Blake Purvis had to stop and take a few minutes to ...
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