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Harbour wins Big Dog Award
Hayden Harbour, of Bruce, earned the Big Dog Award last Saturday at the American Powerlifting Association Meet held in Philadelphia. The award is given to the person who records the best overall total...
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Academy teams play tonight at Marvell, North A Tourney
The basketball season will be on the line for both Calhoun Academy teams tonight (Wednesday, Feb. 10) when they play in the North A Tournament at Marvell Academy. The Lady Cougars will face North...
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Postseason tips off next week for Bruce, Calhoun City and Vardaman basketball
The Vardaman Lady Rams, Calhoun City Lady Wildcats and Calhoun City Wildcats each won regular season titles and earned top seeds entering their respective district tournaments next week, but all three...
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Favre becomes state’s ninth Pro Football Hall of Famer
Brett Lorenzo Favre brings to nine the number of native Mississippians inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That the Magnolia State ranks No. 1 per capita in producing Hall of Famers will not...
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Calhoun Academy Lady Cougars advance to State Tournament
Calhoun Academy's Lady Cougars advanced to the Class A State Tournament with a 53-47 win over North Sunflower Wednesday night at Marvell, Ark. The victory advanced the Lady Cougars to the North...
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ICC to host football tryouts Feb. 24
Itawamba Community College head football coach Sean Cannon has announced that his program will hold tryouts on Feb. 24 at the Football Fieldhouse on ICC’s Fulton Campus with registration beginning at...
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Whites win in Amazing Race
Four Calhoun County kids, Aaron, Aaden, and Aace White and Dawson Davis ran in the Great Amazing Race last week in Jackson. This race raises money to fight against pediatric cancer. This is a national...
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Football stardom never changed Willie Richardson
We lost the ineffable Willie Richardson last week, dead at age 76, a football legend surely beloved by all who knew him, no matter their allegiances. Richardson was a Jackson State man whose playing...
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Lady Trojans still alive; Trojans, Rams eliminated; ‘City, Lady Rams play...
The high school basketball season has hit clutch time. It’s win or go home now. Tuesday night, The Vardaman Rams and Bruce Trojans fell victim to that while the Bruce Lady Trojans survived. The Rams...
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Former Trojan Fred Thomas to be inducted, Community College Sports Hall of Fame
Former Bruce Trojans and Northwest standout, NJCAA All-American and 12-year NFL veteran defensive back Fred Thomas is set to be inducted into the Mississippi Community College Sports Hall of Fame. The...
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Lady Cougars fall in state quarterfinals
Calhoun Academy Lady Cougars' season came to an end Wednesday night at the Class A State Tournament at Rebul Academy. The Lady Cougars were defeated by top-ranked Briarfield 71-40 in the state...
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Former Bruce Trojan Benjy Parker is new head coach at Northwest
Benjy Parker, the Rangers' defensive coordinator the past two seasons, was promoted Wednesday to Northwest's next head football coach. Two months after leading the Rangers to an 11-1 record and their...
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Vardaman Lady Rams, both Calhoun City teams advance to region championships
The Vardaman Lady Rams, Calhoun City Lady Wildcats and Wildcats all won their region tournament openers Thursday to advance to their respective title games and clinch home playoff games next week....
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Basketball playoff action set, Calhoun City and Vardaman hosting
The Vardaman Lady Rams, Calhoun City Lady Wildcats, and Calhoun City Wildcats all know their path to Jackson now. North Half playoffs will start Monday night for girls' with boys' action following on...
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County baseball, softball seasons open this week
The high school baseball season will officially open this Saturday with the annual Calhoun County Tournament. Vardaman is scheduled to host the tournament, but is in the process of finishing their new...
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Lady Trojans’ season ends with playoff loss at Leland
The Bruce Lady Trojans’ season ended Monday night with a 57-40 loss at Leland in the opening round of the North Half playoffs. Photo by Roy Meeks Abbie Patton and Kalisha Parks led the scoring with 11...
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Lady Wildcats host Coahoma County Friday for trip to state
The Calhoun City Lady Wildcats pulled within one win of a trip to Jackson and the state tournament Monday night when they dominated visiting Riverside in the opening round of the North Half playoffs....
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Vardaman aims to earn trip to state against Myrtle Friday
The Vardaman Lady Rams, 22-8, earned some revenge from last year, but more importantly stepped closer to their dream of a trip to the state tournament with a 62-49 home win over Ray Brooks Monday...
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Wildcats defeat Leland; now four wins from goal
Four more wins. That’s the goal for these Calhoun City Wildcats who stormed past Leland Tuesday night despite moments of “less than desired intensity,” according to Coach Daren Coffey. The Wildcats,...
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Fame and money never changed “Peanuts” one bit
Last week’s death of Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Jim Davenport brought a barrage of memories, all good ones. His nickname was Peanuts. Don’t know how he got it, and, for some reason, I never...
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