Area Sports
Mary Montgomery shows what Zach Golson has built cannot easily be torn down
By JIMMY WIGFIELD SEMMES — After six depressing months in which it seemed the brakes had been pressed on the progress Mary G. Montgomery’s football team had made in the last four years, the Vikings mashed the accelerator once again on Thursday night. Unveiling perhaps the most inexperienced team MGM has…
Read MoreAlex Page named interim coach at Mary G. Montgomery
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Deep South Media Editor ______________________________ Mary G. Montgomery defensive coordinator Alex Page has been named the Vikings’ interim head football coach, sources told the Call News Tuesday. Head coach Zach Golson was put on administrative leave by MGM Principal David Diaz Monday in response to charges that several eighth graders…
Read MoreMary Montgomery coach Zach Golson placed on administrative leave
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Zach Golson, who built Mary G. Montgomery football into one of the state’s elite programs, was put on administrative leave Monday by the Mobile County Public School System. “He has been placed on administrative leave and it is a personnel matter, so we cannot say anything more,” MCPSS Director of…
Read MoreDeshawn Spencer is catching on fast at Auburn but otherwise fans better be patient
AUBURN — On a day when Auburn’s starting quarterback looked like the backup and the backup looked like the starter, the 34,000 fans gathered for Saturday’s A-Day game at Jordan-Hare Stadium needed something or someone inspiring to latch onto after years of disillusionment. Former Saraland star receiver Deshawn Spencer may have…
Read MoreWhile much remains unsettled at Bama, Ryan Coleman-Williams gives reasons for Tide fans to smile
TUSCALOOSA — In its first formal appearance before the public since being emasculated by Indiana in the Rose Bowl, Alabama gave no clues that it could be a great football team based on what transpired in Saturday’s A-Day game. But, after all, it was A-Day, and a spring practice…
Read MoreSt. Paul’s Andy Robbins becomes state’s winningest baseball coach
By ARTHUR L. MACK IRVINGTON — No. 1-ranked Class 5A St. Paul’s used a six-run seventh inning to surge to a 10-1 win over Alma Bryant Tuesday night and make the Saints’ Andy Robbins the state’s all-time winningest baseball coach with his 1,218th career coaching victory. Tuesday’s win put Robbins ahead of late Hartselle…
Read MoreAlabama regains its mojo and Auburn’s lost season continues
TUSCALOOSA — Alabama experienced a nearly perfect expression of nirvana Saturday night, performing a thorough colonoscopy of Auburn for the first 25 minutes before the anesthesia wore off and hearing its fans pile upon Tigers coach Steven Pearl with taunts of “nepo baby” for the favor (favor?) his father did by ensuring…
Read MoreSaraland quarterback Jamison Roberts commits to Oklahoma
By JIMMY WIGFIELD Saraland’s Jamison Roberts committed on Saturday to Oklahoma, whose lineage of great quarterbacks was a major factor in his decision. Roberts (6-3, 205) — who has developed into a four-star prospect and is rated as the No. 1 quarterback in the state by Rivals and No. 21 nationally by…
Read MoreMobile Christian staggered early in state finals loss to Saint James but expects to get another shot
By JIMMY WIGFIELD BIRMINGHAM — There are fantasies, there are dreams and there is reality. The fantasy, as it turned out, was the thought of a competitive state championship game between No. 1-ranked Saint James and No. 8 Mobile Christian on Friday, a notion that was quickly dispelled when Natalie…
Read MoreHoover blisters Bryant but Hurricanes exult in a different sort of triumph
By JIMMY WIGFIELD BIRMINGHAM — Alma Bryant’s girls knew they’d have to stick a lot of harpoons into the whale known as Hoover basketball to have any chance of sinking the best team in the state Thursday. The No. 8-ranked Hurricanes didn’t throw enough of them and the ones that got…
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