By Jim Steele Sports writer At the end of the 1998-99 season, legendary Union University women's basketball coach David Blackstock announced he was stepping down. When the 1999 season began, …

Matt Franco spent nearly a decade playing minor league baseball and another near decade playing in the majors. He appeared in one World Series with the New York Mets in 2000. On Tuesday, Franco was …

For the first time since before the pandemic began nearly three years ago, the Phillip Trey Lindsey Memorial Scholarship Endowment will be having a public event to raise funds later this year. And …

People who watched youth football in Jackson 10 or 15 years ago knew about Trey Smith. His name began to spread in the summer of 2014 when he received a pair of football scholarship offers from …

South Side’s girls’ basketball team appears to have had a pretty easy season so far. Coach Brent McNeal said he tried to put together as difficult a schedule as he could, and that included three …

Tylandrius Parks is a senior at Union University who’s among the team leaders in multiple categories. He leads the team with 20 points per game, second with 7.6 rebounds, second with 43 assists and …

As classes resume from holiday breaks this week in high schools and some colleges, local college basketball teams have emerged from their own abbreviated holiday breaks to get back to competition. In …

Sacred Heart of Jesus played three games in as many days at the Hub City Classic last week and nearly came away with the championship. They fell short to champion Crockett County, 65-60, but head …

Jackson Central-Merry’s girls’ basketball team is continuing to improve in its second season back as a program. Just the fact they competed in the Hub City Classic tournament at Liberty Tech is …

University School of Jackson football coach Michael Stroup told his team on Wednesday morning he’s resigning his position. Stroup, who’s been at USJ for the past six seasons, is taking the head …

Looking ahead to 2023, one of the more underrated things to look forward to in Madison County is the pending return of professional baseball to Jackson. The Jackson Rockabillys will play in the …

Caleb Massey got to have a different kind of Christmas break as the South Side football senior lineman took a trip to Hawaii to play in the Tiki Bowl all-star game. “We had three teams there that …

With TSSAA’s reclassification process this past fall came a set of new football regions and schedules for teams that will last for the next two seasons. The process was different this time as the …

While seven high school basketball teams from Madison County are playing in the Hub City Classic this week at Liberty Tech, a number of local teams are playing in Florida this week. The boys’ team …

Athletes and coaches who’ve won championships have often said the only thing harder than making it to the top of one’s sport or league is staying there. The girls’ soccer program at University …

It was at the Dynamix Hoopfest earlier this month when University School of Jackson’s girls’ basketball team played a marquee matchup against Rossville Christian Academy. RCA was in the TSSAA a …

A Jackson holiday tradition continues this week, but in a new place as the Hub City Classic basketball tournament moves to Liberty Tech High School. The tournament, which is the second-biggest …

Sometimes this time of year, a hire is made for a new football coach, and the new name seems to appear to fit right in with the position. Woodrow Lowe Jr. and North Side High School seem to go …

Woodrow Lowe Jr. had spent little – if any – time on campus at North Side High School before interviewing in November for the head football coach position with the Indians. “We might’ve come …

When South Side’s girls’ basketball team took on the team from Hewitt-Trussville from just outside Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday as part of the Hoopfest, it was a chance for the Lady Hawks to see …