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    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — In one watershed moment, Ryan Williams was holding the coveted Mr. Football award, emblematic of the best high school player among the 30,000 who put on pads last season in Alabama. Four hours later, after driving back to Saraland through parts of a winter squall, he was catching…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Cole Blaylock may have thought he did all he could do for UMS-Wright after running for 2,000 yards his senior season but Bulldogs coach Terry Curtis doesn’t think so. Blaylock, who was named the Class 5A Back of the Year Thursday, will continue to contribute to his alma…

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Mobile Christian defensive end Sterling Dixon just finished a superlative junior season by committing to Alabama, becoming a three-time MaxPreps first-team All-American and being named the Class 3A Lineman of the Year by the Alabama Sports Writers Association on Thursday. That would be a career for most players but…

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Saraland’s Ryan Williams made history by becoming the first sophomore to be selected the state’s Mr. Football Thursday but after the pomp and photos and chicken and macaroni and cheese for lunch had been cleared away in the Renaissance Hotel ballroom, he knew how he was going to celebrate.…

By JIMMY WIGFIELD Mobile Christian defensive end Legarrius Sims and cornerback Evan Blalock kept the commitments they made to Louisiana-Monroe last summer by signing with the Warhawks on Wednesday, the first day of college football’s early signing period. Sims (6-4, 229) and Blalock (6-0, 184), who each started both ways the last two seasons, are…

Staff Report The cousin of a man found shot to death near Citronelle on Dec. 15 has been charged with murder by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office. Drayson Stone Kelly, 25, was arrested and charged with the murder of Gilbert Rudolph Bohannon III, 32, whose body was found was found at an industrial area off…