TROY – Fresh off a second straight conference championship and berth in the NCAA Division II Softball World Series at Auburn-Montgomery, Eric Newell has been named Troy’s new softball head coach, Director of Athletics Brent Jones announced Thursday afternoon.
MONTGOMERY – Twice in the final three innings Friday, Troy had three-straight singles after two were out, and used that clutch hitting to score four runs.
TROY – Game times are set for five Troy games this fall as ESPN released a bulk of games in conjunction with a handful of its conference partners.
With just two quarterbacks on scholarship this spring – junior Gunnar Watson and redshirt freshman Quayde Hawkins – and another arriving this summer in true freshman and former Brantley star Tucker Kilcrease – new Troy football coach Jon Sumrall is looking to the transfer portal to add another one.
TROY – It was Troy football team’s time to get physical on Saturday.
TROY – New Troy head football coach Jon Sumrall filled a void on the Trojan coaching staff on Friday, announcing the hiring of Travis Pearson, a veteran with college and high school coaching experience in the state of Alabama and a former Arena League pro football player.
TROY – The Troy Women’s Basketball team is postseason bound after accepting an invitation to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament as the Sun Belt’s automatic qualifier, the team announced Tuesday.
PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Troy women’s basketball squad utilized a second-half surge to down the No. 5 seed Little Rock 62-59 on Sunday at the Pensacola Bay Center to advance into the Sun Belt Tournament championship for the second straight season.
TROY —- Unable to contain Texas State’s shooting on all three levels, Troy fell in its regular-season finale on Friday night, dropping a 61-52 decision at Trojan Arena.
BOONE, N.C. – The Troy women’s basketball squad claimed the Sun Belt regular season championship Thursday night after downing Appalachian State in convincing fashion 89-56 at the Holmes Convocation Center.
TROY – Troy turned to the three-ball when it was desperate for points late in the game during a big 59-53 win over UT-Arlington on Wednesday night at Trojan Arena.
Bonifay native Andy Davis scored the first two of what would become a record-setting 258-point Troy basketball tally against DeVry Institute of Atlanta 30 years ago in Sartain Hall.
Some former Wiregrass high school baseball standouts will likely fill some key pitching roles for new Troy baseball coach Skylar Meade during the fast-approaching season.
During the past year, Geneva County’s Emmanuel Henderson had a dominating football season and a spectacular basketball campaign, Houston Academy's Alexis Milanowski had a dominating offensive season in a state softball championship run and Enterprise coach Rhett Harrelson directed basically …
It appeared any drama was over when eventual champion Tyler Spielman of Cave Creek, Ariz., teed off on the final hole holding a two-stroke advantage over Parker Claxton in the 73rd Annual Press Thornton Future Masters on Saturday at the Dothan Country Club.
Dothan natives Luke Thornton and Mason Crowder walk to the ninth green side-by-side, park their pushcarts and proceed to finish their round in the 15-18 age division of the Press Thornton Future Masters on Saturday.
The beginning of summer usually brings with it a windfall of commitments and 2022 has been no different.
The last team to get into the NCAA baseball tournament was the last team standing.
Mississippi wins first CWS title by sweeping Oklahoma.
One Auburn 2023 target recently left his official visit from Jordan-Hare with a sense of wonder. Night hung over the Plains, stadium floodlights tinted blue, coaches selling him and his family on a future.
Marlin Briscoe, the first Black starting quarterback in the American Football League, died Monday. His daughter, Angela Marriott, told The Associated Press that Briscoe, 76, died of pneumonia at a hospital in Norwalk, California. He had been hospitalized with circulation issues in his legs. Briscoe was a star quarterback at Omaha University before the Denver Broncos drafted him as a cornerback in the 14th round in 1968. He told the team he wanted a tryout at quarterback. Denver agreed to an audition, and the 5-foot-10 dynamo nicknamed “The Magician” made the starting lineup on October 6.
A lawsuit alleges the Houston Texans had been told that their former quarterback Deshaun Watson was sexually assaulting and harassing women during massage sessions, but instead of trying to stop him, the team provided him with resources to enable his actions and “turned a blind eye” to his behavior. The lawsuit against the team was filed in Houston on Monday by one of the 24 women who had previously sued Watson over allegations of sexual misconduct when he played for the Texans. In a statement, the Houston Texans said the team would “take the necessary steps to address the allegations against our organization." Watson is set to have a hearing this week over whether he will be disciplined by the NFL.
Five-time All-Pro linebacker Luke Kuechly is returning to the Carolina Panthers as a member of its radio broadcast team. A seven-time Pro Bowler who retired in 2020, Kuechly will be joining play-by-play announcer Anish Shroff and either Jordan Gross or Jake Delhomme for seven games this season. Kuechly will be in the booth for six home games against the Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos and Pittsburgh Steelers and one road game at the Cincinnati Bengals. Jim Szoke will continue to act as the third man in the booth for the games Kuechly doesn’t do.
WNBA star Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17.
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