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Saraland edges Lipscomb in OT thriller, 31-30: ‘This was about our respect’
By JIMMY WIGFIELD SARALAND — It was so hot this week that one Saraland assistant coach saw the glue in the soles of his shoes melt at practice. The Spartans’ souls were similarly laid bare once ESPN’s cameras came on Friday night for the nationally televised game against Lipscomb Academy. One wondered if…
Read MoreSaraland doesn’t want moral victory in nationally televised showdown with Lipscomb
By JIMMY WIGFIELD SARALAND — Saraland’s brand of football will be shown from Atlantic sands to Pacific forests, across the fruited plains and atop purple mountains’ majesty Friday night. When ESPN televises the Spartans’ season opener against Lipscomb Academy, it will include three state championship trophies spread across two Southern states, a half-dozen of the…
Read MoreMawae, Lipscomb get jitters out of the way, eye rebound against Saraland
By JIMMY WIGFIELD NFL Hall of Fame offensive lineman Kevin Mawae got his first loss as a head coach out of the way last week and is ready to walk a more familiar path, which happens to go through Saraland Friday night. “I’m 0-1 as a head coach right now and that’s not very…
Read MoreStop Saraland’s offense? ‘There isn’t a good answer’ against players determined to be great
Santae McWilliams gives Saraland’s offense devastating balance on the ground. (Call News file photo) By JIMMY WIGFIELD SARALAND — With all due respect to Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein, all they had to do was figure out how to split the atom. They never had the daunting task of devising a…
Read MoreHere it is, football lovers!
IT’S THIS BIG! Can Saraland’s high-powered offense be stopped? Can Mary G. Montgomery challenge for a Blue Map? Look for the answers to these and many other questions in southwest Alabama’s best high school football preview hitting the streets on Aug. 23. Every school in Mobile and Washington counties is covered by the Call News,…
Read MoreSemmes council votes to roll back police jurisdiction beginning Jan. 1
Semmes Mayor Brandon Van Hook said the city’s resources must be prioritized for those living in the city limits. (Call News file photo) By ARTHUR L. MACK SEMMES — The Semmes City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to roll back the city’s police jurisdiction to a half mile beyond its city limits. The new…
Read MoreSaraland No. 1 in preseason poll; Mary Montgomery No. 9, UMS-Wright No. 3, Mobile Christian No. 5
Staff Report Defending Class 6A state champion Saraland is the overwhelming choice for No. 1 in the Alabama Sports Writers Association preseason football poll released Wednesday. The Spartans are joined by 6A Region 1 rivals Theodore at No. 5 and Spanish Fort at No. 9. Mary Montgomery, coming off its first winning season and first…
Read MoreMorgan Davis wins bronze in long jump at Pan-Am Games
By ARTHUR L. MACK Saraland’s Morgan Davis finished her high school career by winning the bronze medal in the women’s long jump at the Pan-Am Games U20 Championships Friday in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Davis jumped 19 feet, 8 inches on her final jump to clinch bronze just behind Team USA teammate Avery Lewis (20-5) and…
Read MoreAlabama’s GOAT, Terry Curtis, doubts anything can be done to put the NIL genie back in the bottle
By JIMMY WIGFIELD The state’s winningest high school football coach doubts much can be done to stanch the influence of NIL deals and the allure of easy transfers now occurring with regularity in college football. That influence on high school football came to the foreground when Mobile Christian star linebacker and Alabama commitment Sterling Dixon…
Read MorePlayers have rights but NIL era is gravely wounding prep football
While high school football has never meant more to Alabama’s burgs, cities and rural hamlets, the flag is already being lowered to half-mast for the sport in honor of the way we have long idealized it — a bastion of community pride and loyalty, an incubator without peer from which boys are transformed into men.…
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