Mississippi High School Football News

Signing fast players has been the main objective of coaches in the Southeastern Conference for years.Athletes that can change the momentum of a contest in the blink of an eye are highly coveted every signing class and it's very unlikely that will ever change.

Petal's Anthony Alford said he plans to play football and baseball at Southern Miss next year rather than sign a professional baseball contract.

Football season is fast approaching. Some important dates to remember: •July 28: NFL camps open.

Kailo Moore of West Bolivar is a 3-time 100-meter sprint champion who will be heavily recruited in football.

Grenada High School wide receivers Andre Ford fights his way past a Lafayette defender during action last week at Oxford.

Success! After a successful opening day at the 2012 SEC Tournament, State looks to continue the winning ways as they take on LSU this afternoon at the Hoover Met.

Stacy Hester, the former highly successful coach at New Hope High School near Columbus, is the new baseball coach at Brandon High.

Mississippi Coaches Hall of Fame member James 'Booty' Sloan, who coached the Clinton High Arrows for 13 years and is now in his 45th year of high school coaching, always refers to his 1972 football team as 'one of the best and most talented' he's ever coached.

Andy Woodard was a baseball and football star at North Forrest High School in the late 1980s, playing on several baseball state championship teams and quarterbacking the football team.

Jacob Billingsley, a right-handed junior pitcher at Magnolia Heights High School, says the tough love has been going on much longer than that.

Lewis Sims led the Pascagoula football team to a 9-4 record and a playoff berth in his first season.

Pascagoula's Taylor Olsen, left and Will Tomes will lead the Panthers into the 5A state finals against Hernando beginning today in Jackson.

I have a confession. I love basketball more than any sport in the world. When it comes to sports, next to hoops there's nothing greater, except maybe football.

Anyone who follows college football recruiting knows that West Bolivar's Kailo Moore is a highly-recruited running back prospect that led the Eagles to a Class 2A state title last year.

In its 27th year of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, today announced Jake Files of Clinton High School as its 2011-12 Gatorade Mississippi Boys Soccer Player of the Year.

North Carolina's governor took a shot at Mississippi last week on the heels of what she saw as an... Terry senior Zavian Bingham won the Class 6A boys 100 meters in a time of 10.73 seconds on Monday at Pearl High School.

On April 7, the Madison Central baseball team made a trip south to face the cream of the Pine Belt.

Jay Pace never let his size or the fact that he plays football at Victory Christian deter him from realizing his dream to play football in college.

Even though they are the only seniors on the Victory Christian baseball team, the veterans can look past the fact that the Eagles aren't the most experienced or the biggest team in the Alabama Christian Educators Association.

Now the versatile senior hopes to record an impressive double in this weekend's MHSAA state track and field championships at Pearl High School.