After back-to-back losses to Bay High in the state championship game, New Albany head coach Austin Baker and his team finally broke through this year. New Albany captured its first-ever state title in boys soccer by knocking off Bay 3-0 in the finals to cap off a dominant season. Baker is the 2025-26 Daily Journal’s Boys Soccer Coach of the Year. The …
Iowa's star guard was at his best in the first half of his team's Elite Eight matchup, but the Hawkeyes came up short against Illinois.
TUPELO – The Tupelo Running Club and Core Cycle & Outdoors recently teamed up to raise money for the cross-country teams at Tupelo High School, Tupelo Christian Preparatory School and Mooreville High School. TRC sponsors many local running events, including this year’s 50th Anniversary of the Gumtree 10k, which was first run in 1976. The club seeks to …
Parker Pounders is team-first. Ever since he made the Booneville soccer team in seventh grade following time as a student manager, he has put the team’s needs ahead of his own. However, after a while, his individual accomplishments became something one had to notice. After leading the Blue Devils on a historic run, Pounders is the Daily Journal’s 2025-26 …
Heading into this year’s Class 7A state title game, it had been 20 years since Tupelo had captured a girls soccer championship. It’s only fitting, then, that the coach who guided the Golden Wave to a championship in 2006 helped end the two-decade-long drought in 2026. Shelley Miller’s Tupelo squad knocked off Northwest Rankin, the back-to-back reigning …
NETTLETON – Nettleton’s start to region play could not be much better. Through five games, the Tigers are 5-0 in Region 4-3A play while outscoring their opponents 76-2. Nettleton is coming off a 17-2 win over Winona last Tuesday. “The objective is just – and this is coach speak, it’s what we all talk about – we’re trying to go 1-0 every time we …
Saltillo girls soccer has been a monolith for the past four seasons, and one of the biggest reasons why is getting her due. Lynley McCarley, the Tigers’ four-year starting goalkeeper, is the Daily Journal’s 2025-26 Girls Soccer Player of the Year. McCarley is the second Tiger in three years to win the honor. O.J. Miller won it in 2023-24. “I've put …
OXFORD – Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco felt like the Rebels had chances Saturday afternoon against No. 6 Mississippi State. For the second straight day, Ole Miss wasn’t able to make the most of the chances it did get. The No. 18 Rebels went 3 for 19 with runners on base Saturday – and 2 for 11 with runners in scoring position – in a 6-1 loss to the …
UConn and Notre Dame will face off in the women's March Madness college basketball tournament on Sunday. Here's how to watch.
Luka Doncic's 16th technical foul of this season has been upheld by the NBA, and he will serve an automatic one-game suspension as a result.
Jérémy Doku tore the US to shreds on Saturday, with a defense counting on help that never came
Arizona quarterback Max Meylor accounted for five touchdowns and 233 of his team’s 292 total yards as the Rattlers slithered to a 49-21 season-opening win over the San Diego Strike Force on Saturday.
The Wolverines had a 16-0 run in the second quarter to erase an 11-point deficit, their biggest, then broke a tie in the third with the 17-0 burst that let them cruise to their second Elite Eight, both in the past five seasons.
No. 1 Michigan plays No. 6 Tennessee while No. 1 Duke takes on No. 2 UConn.
The Sporting News tracked the full box score stats as Arizona took on Purdue in the Elite Eight on Saturday night.
NASCAR veteran says competitors still racing like old system despite return to points-based title fight.
The 15th-ranked Americans learned that, when they are not engaged and focused every moment against a superior side, they become vulnerable to such painful outcomes.
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles are still getting warmed up. After squeaking out a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Twins on opening day Thursday, the Orioles were quiet on offense again Saturday as the Twins strung together a few rallies for a 4-1 victory. It was a chilly day in Baltimore — the first-pitch temperature of 44 degrees was tied for 10th coldest …
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Today’s Lineups DIAMONDBACKS DODGERS Ketel Marte – 2B Shohei Ohtani – DH Corbin Carroll – RF Kyle Tucker – RF Geraldo Perdomo – SS Mookie Betts – SS Pavin Smith – DH Will Smith – C Nolan Arenado – 3B Freddie Freeman – 1B Alek Thomas – CF Teoscar Hernandez – LF Carlos Santana – […]