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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 overall with eight state championships, all in 25 years at UMS-Wright. Curtis gave credit to others for his accomplishments and said he got emotional during…
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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 the 7 p.m. game between the Spartans and Mustangs from Saraland. While the Spartans finished 14-1 and won their first Class 6A Blue Map last…
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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 local schools to expose his son to more advanced competition. “Sterling wants to compete against a higher talent level and see where he is as…
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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 has reached 97 mph — was selected by the San Diego Padres in the seventh round of last week’s Major League draft as the Rams’…
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By JIMMY WIGFIELD Four-star wide junior receiver Dillon Alfred announced on social media Wednesday his intent to transfer from Gautier (Miss.) to Saraland, deepening the defending state champion Spartans’ elite athleticism at the skill positions. Alfred (5-10, 170) — already considered the No. 14 prospect in Alabama in the On3 composite rankings — has been offered by Auburn, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Penn State. At Saraland, he will join reigning Mr. Football and…
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By ARTHUR L. MACK Three Mobile City Councilmembers stopped Wednesday’s meeting before it got started over dissatisfaction of a proposed sale of Ladd-Peebles Stadium to the Mobile County Public School System. Councilmembers Cory Penn and William Carroll, along with Council President C.J. Small, abstained from voting to pass the agenda, causing the meeting to be adjourned since five votes were needed to move forward. A statement issued by the city’s communications department said Small, Carroll and Penn disagreed with the…
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Mary G. Montgomery quarterback Jared Hollins has committed to South Alabama, where he hopes to make as much of a difference for the Jaguars as he has for the Vikings. (Call News file photo) By JIMMY WIGFIELD The first time new Mary G. Montgomery coach Zach Golson met Jared Hollins, he didn’t know what to expect when he escorted him to the school’s stadium and asked him to throw some footballs. It was a scene reminiscent of “The Natural,”…
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By ARTHUR L. MACK The Mobile County School Board on Monday approved Justin Hannah as Murphy’s new head football coach, filling a vacancy which had lasted several months. The Murphy position is the first head coach’s job for Hannah, 35, who spent the 2022 season as defensive coordinator at Jackson-Olin. He has also served as an assistant at Shades Valley and his alma mater, Tuskegee University. Hannah succeeds John McKenzie, who resigned after one season to take over…
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By JIMMY WIGFIELD Theodore all-state running back Brayden Jenkins is having a tougher time finding openings with Division I programs than he did while prying opposing defenses apart for 2,000 yards rushing and 26 touchdowns as a senior. Jenkins (5-10, 180), who is a member of the National Honor Society and has a 3.9 GPA, said he has received offers from Huntingdon and Millsaps but no Division I programs have shown him serious interest, even after he ran for 2,043…
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By JIMMY WIGFIELD After learning he was Gatorade’s Alabama Player of the Year, Saraland wide receiver Ryan Williams thought more about what is ahead of him than what was behind him — and with Williams, those things are usually far behind. “As soon as we let Ryan know he won the Gatorade award, he was excited about it and his comment was, ‘Now, we’ve got to go have a great workout today,’” Spartans coach Jeff Kelly said. “That kind of…
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