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By ARTHUR L. MACK It’s hard to believe that perhaps the best female track and field athlete in Alabama high school history once hated practice so much she had to be bribed to do it. At Semmes Middle School, Morgan Davis was a blossoming volleyball standout due to her leaping ability but her mother signed…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD People weren’t sure if the artificial turf on Saraland’s practice field neared 100 degrees Tuesday because of the summer sun or K.J. Lacey. Lacey, a four-star prospect who has committed to Texas, showed why he is rated one of the country’s best quarterback prospects, searing four opponents in a 7-on-7…

By ARTHUR L. MACK City of Mobile officials broke ground for the next section of the Three Mile Creek Greenway Trail covering a half mile from the Tricentennial Park trail terminus in Toulminville to the University Hospital campus. The project, which is expected to be complete in nine months, was designed by Dix.Hite + Partners…

By JIMMY WIGFIELD Until Zach Golson was hired to raise it from the dust, the Mary G. Montgomery football program constantly hemorrhaged its lifeblood — the talent from the Semmes park system and Semmes Middle School to other public and private schools which won and offered better exposure for college opportunities. How else to explain…

Zach Golson didn’t come down from the heights of Semmes — it’s only a couple of Alexander Shunnarah billboards above sea level — clutching a sacred playbook to show Mary G. Montgomery the way to the promised land. Golson isn’t that presumptuous but, then again, he is not merely reviving the Vikings’ football program since…

By ARTHUR L. MACK Williamson High head football coach Antonio Coleman was all smiles after groundbreaking ceremonies Wednesday for the school’s on-campus stadium. The stadium will be built where the practice field is located and the Mobile County School Board will seek bids for construction once plans are approved by the state. Until then, the…

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD When Bill Clark was nailing together the framework of a Prattville football dynasty which would eventually win three straight state championships, a bold, skinny kid from Autauga Academy told him he wanted to transfer in, be the leader and play quarterback. Zach Golson didn’t get the answer he wanted — “We…

By ARTHUR L. MACK Star Baker High School guard Labaron Philon, the state’s reigning Mr. Basketball, announced on social media Saturday night he is transferring to Link Academy in Branson, Mo. Philon (6-4, 177) who committed to Auburn in February, then decommitted in April, averaged 35 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists during the 2022-23…