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Morgan 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.…
Read MoreSterling Dixon welcomed at Spanish Fort; father brushes off criticism
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Faced with much faster competition, Sterling Dixon was happy being quickly forced to put any controversy connected to his transfer from Mobile Christian to Spanish Fort behind him. Starting Monday on the Toros’ practice field, Dixon began learning to survive and then thrive in perhaps the state’s most demanding region. Dixon, a…
Read MoreSterling Dixon transferring to Spanish Fort, his father says
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Four-star linebacker and Alabama commitment Sterling Dixon is transferring from Mobile Christian to Spanish Fort for his senior season, his father told the Call News Monday. Dixon’s decision comes one week before AHSAA teams open formal preseason practice. The Toros begin the season Aug. 24 at home against Fairhope. Dixon’s entry into…
Read MoreUMS-Wright’s Terry Curtis named national coach of the year
By JIMMY WIGFIELD UMS-Wright’s Terry Curtis was named the National High School Athletic Coaches Association National Coach of the Year Thursday night in Lincoln, Neb. Curtis, 72, who became the all-time winningest high school coach in Alabama history last season, is about to embark on his 35th season as a head coach. He is 348-93…
Read MoreESPN announces it will nationally televise Saraland-Lipscomb game featuring elite recruits
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Proving it belongs among the nation’s elite high school football programs and setting the stage to win a second straight state championship aren’t priorities for Saraland coach Jeff Kelly and his players, although both could happen in the Aug. 25 season opener against Lipscomb Academy. ESPN announced Wednesday it will nationally televise…
Read MoreAlabama commitment Sterling Dixon transferring from Mobile Christian, considering IMG Academy, his father says
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Four-star linebacker and Alabama commitment Sterling Dixon shocked his Mobile Christian coaches and teammates after a Monday morning workout by announcing he is transferring for his senior season. Dixon’s father, Sterling Dixon Sr., told the Call News the family is talking to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., and also considering some bigger…
Read MoreMobile now Alabama’s second-largest city after annexation vote succeeds
By ARTHUR L. MACK Three of four areas targeted for annexation by the City of Mobile voted on Tuesday to become part of what is now Alabama’s second-largest city. The Cottage Hill Corridor, King’s Branch and Orchard Estates areas voted to be annexed while the Airport Boulevard area voted against joining the city. As…
Read MorePadres raving about Tucker Musgrove’s arsenal of talent after drafting University of Mobile star
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Semmes’ Tucker Musgrove arrived at the University of Mobile with a fastball that didn’t match his body. But when his body caught up, so did the professional baseball scouts. Musgrove (6-3, 185) — a junior five-tool prospect who hit .401 in the last two years of his college career and whose fastball…
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