The Carthage High School football team is getting set for the 2009 CHS Football Golf Tournament at Carthage Golf Course.

According to the 2009 Big 12 football preseason poll, the University of Missouri will finish third in the North division of the conference, with Nebraska projected as this season’s north champion.

Effective for the 2009 football season, the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) has signed an agreement to send one of its institutions to the Kanza Bowl at Hummer Sports Park in Topeka, Kan., to face a member of the Lone Star Conference, it was announced Monday at a press conference in Topeka.

A nationally televised season opener between three-time defending MIAA Champion Northwest Missouri State and Lone Star Conference foe Abilene Christian, several other big non-conference tilts and the usual in-conference rivalries highlight the 2009 MIAA football schedule, released Tuesday by the conference office.

This year’s event a success despite weather

This year’s Carthage?High School Football Four Person Scramble was a success despite the weather’s attempt to delay activities.

When Missouri Southern became a four-year institution in 1968, the first person to lead the Lions' football program was Jim Johnson. Johnson, 68, passed away Tuesday after a bout with cancer.

The Pittsburg State University football team will open its 2009 preseason camp this week.

Pittsburg State University athletics director/head football coach Chuck Broyles announced Friday PSU has signed a one-year contract with Chadron State College to extend the series between the Gorillas and the Eagles into the 2010 season.

The Missouri Southern football team has been picked to finish seventh in both the MIAA coaches and media preseason football polls as announced by the league office Monday as part of MIAA Media Day in Kansas City.

The Missouri Southern football team has been picked to finish seventh in both the MIAA coaches and media preseason football polls as announced by the league office Monday as part of MIAA Media Day in Kansas City.

Fans encouraged to attend first practice

The Missouri Southern football team will open up fall practice for the 2009 football season at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 6 at Fred G. Hughes Stadium.

Howard, Lions begin life without Hinspeter

JOPLIN, Mo. — Ask any football coach out there and, naturally, they’ll say losing the team’s all-time offensive leader would be a difficult hurdle to overcome.

 

PITTSBURG, Kan.  — For incoming Pittsburg State freshman Trey Derryberry, just getting into his room was probably the hardest part of his Wednesday.

After a couple of failed attempts, the freshman from Carthage finally got his door opened and also unlocked his start to Pitt State football.

 

For 26 years, fans of Pittsburg State football never got tired of listening to Pete Hamilton and his various signature cries during Gorilla home football games.

For Cardell Clemons, this may be viewed as his shot at redemption.

Another season starts Monday for Carthage High School, as fall sports practices begin for football, volleyball, girls tennis, cross country, softball and boys soccer.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Football officials in the MIAA went through the paces over the course of three days prior to MIAA Media Day in Kansas City, Mo.

 

The Carthage?High School football team will officially begin the season with the annual Blue and White game Saturday at K.E. Baker Stadium.

Transfer Caleb Jessup still working to get used to Pitt State football

It is a far cry from Western Washington to Pittsburg State University.

Carthage kicks off season with annual Blue-White scrimmage

After completing a busy opening week of practice, Jon Guidie, now in his fifth year as Carthage?High School’s head  football coach, couldn’t find much to grumble about.

The 2009 Carthage Tigers

MSSU duo looks to carry over high school success

The friendship started years ago just up the road from Missouri Southern in Webb City. 

Collin Howard and Landon Zerkel formed a friendship that started in pee-wee football and  continues to this day as Missouri Southern Lion football players.

 

The Pittsburg State University football team was ranked No. 7 in the 2009 American Football Coaches Association NCAA Division II Preseason Poll released Monday.

Pittsburg State University Assistant AD/Marketing Bill Kroenke announced today the Chuck Broyles Radio Show will be recorded live on location at Fat Daddy's Flat Top Grill in downtown Pittsburg during the 2009 football season.

Pittsburg State football players who may think they have positions locked up could be sorely mistaken.

Answer this week's prep football poll question

Bears ready to make noise in SRVC

Optimism is probably the key word for the Sarcoxie Bears football Head Coach Jeff Kabance (20-39 school record) this year, as he and his coaching staff attempt to reverse a last place finish in 2008 that saw them outscored 117-50 during the all-important district play.

Single-game tickets for the 2009 Missouri Southern football games go on sale  Monday at the Missouri Southern ticket office.

With unseasonable temperatures producing a hint of football weather, and a couple of new coaches marching the sidelines, four area Missouri Class 1 schools finally got to strap on the gear and hit someone other than a teammate at Friday’s Jasper Jamboree.

CHS turns in solid performance at jamboree

The weather was great, the competition OK, as the Carthage Tigers round into form for the opening of the 2009 prep football season.

The 2009 preseason state rankings for Missouri high school football voted on by a 12-person panel of sportswriters and broadcasters.

Answer this week's prep football poll question

MIAA football 2009 is set to kick off this weekend with several big-time non-conference games today and Saturday, Aug. 29.

Former Carthage standouts set for challenging season

Missouri S&T used a strong finish to the 2008 campaign — winning four of its last five games — to record its third winning season in the last four years. That performance also helped the Miners capture their first conference championship in 25 years as they took the Great Lakes Football Conference title.

Scores from around the state from week one

Carthage, Webb City, Jasper and Sarcoxie posted victories Friday night

Peterson, Poston lead Tigers past Ozark

Sure, it’s cliché, but outside of penalties and turnovers, football games are won and lost at the line of scrimmage.

The Josh Dirks Era in Jasper High School football has arrived.

Uncharacteristic big plays fuel Webb City’s win over Harrisonville

Webb City’s offense has long been associated with grinding, time-consuming “ground-and-pound” drives that eat up plenty of real estate. But the 2009 version of the Cardinals offense, at least on Friday night, displayed an uncharacteristic big play flavor against the visiting Harrisonville Wildcats.

Answer this week's prep football poll question

The second week of the 2009 prep football season produced mixed results for area teams in The Carthage Press coverage area.

Football season is finally here, and for the next three months, it’s happening! 

Hinshaw leads No. 5 Cardinals past Bears in SRVC opener

An undermanned Sarcoxie Bear football team gave the No. 5 team in Missouri Class 1 all it could handle before finally succumbing 21-0 Friday at Miller.

PITTSBURG, Kan. — Just two games into becoming the starting quarterback for the Pittsburg State football team, John McCoy seems to be coming into his own.

The 6-foot junior from North Attleboro, Mass., accounted for 324 yards out of the 426 total offensive yards for the Gorillas in their 41-13 win over No. 7 Chadron State Saturday at Carnie Smith Stadium.

 

It was a tumultuous week for teams ranked in the American Football Coaches Association Division II top 25 as nine teams fell in the second week of play.

The Pittsburg State Gorillas, who defeated their second top 25 team in as many weeks, jumped from No. 5 to No. 4.

 

Answer this week's prep football poll question

SHS concludes three-game set on the road this week against PHHS Pirates

An undermanned Sarcoxie Bears football team pushed Miller, the No. 5 team in Missouri Class 1, around early in the first half last week, but in the end, mistakes cost the Bears.

3-0! Jasper knocks off Appleton City for the first time since 2002

For the first time since 1993, Jasper High School is 3-0 to begin the season after the Eagles came away with an impressive 32-0 shutout victory over long-time nemesis Appleton City Friday at Jasper High School.

The football season is three weeks old and you’ve already seen plays that you feel should have been flagged and just the opposite, plays that you feel should not have been flagged. Stadium seats are the best place to officiate a game, you see it all and from an above angle, or so it seems.

The Eagles used a balanced offensive attack, coupled with an aggressive, stingy defense, to beat Appleton City for the first time since 2001 Friday night in their home opener.

The Pittsburg State University football team took a seven-spot tumble in the recent AFCA Division II Coaches’ Top 25 poll.

The Carthage sixth grade Blue youth football team, backed by stellar offensive play, defeated Lamar, 36-14, Saturday during the 2009 home opener at K.E. Baker Stadium.

In a matter of seconds, two mistakes turned into points and the boost Liberal needed to pull away from Diamond Friday in Spring River Valley Conference football action.

IRVING, Texas — If one’s understanding of Big 12 Conference football began and ended with the discussions at Monday’s media days interview sessions, a league of 11 would have seemed more accurate.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A glowing red sun set behind the clouds here on the day that Jim Johnson died. The football fields at Lehigh University, green and pristine, stretched out for acres in the valley. The Eagles players, most of them unscarred rookies, the youngest of the young, were probably eating or napping or getting ready for a meeting when they announced the news.

At the Southeastern Conference football media days last week, one question set off a debate that divided journalists and fans. Clay Travis, a blogger for AOL Fanhouse, asked Florida’s devoutly Christian quarterback Tim Tebow whether he were saving his virginity for marriage.

The Missouri football team picked up a pair of verbal commitments this week, both from beyond the state border.

DALLAS (AP) — Now that Bob Hayes is going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, people hearing his story for the first time are going to wonder what took so long.

There is a select core of college football programs that lose legions of star players from year to year but continually reside in the top 10. Southern California. Texas. Oklahoma. Florida. LSU. Ohio State.

Fall is right around the corner, and that means nights on the couch watching football, with your Snuggie warding off autumn’s chill. But as you settle in, remote control in hand, the thought will probably cross your mind: “It hardly seems fair that I should be so toasty while my unblanketed, sleeveless dog shivers in the corner.”

Former Notre Dame football Coach Lou Holtz told an Indiana television station he doesn’t plan to run for Congress.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — For sheer football pedigree, it’s hard to match the son and brother of football greats.

KANSAS CITY (AP) — Accusing Kansas State of “wanton and malicious misconduct,” lawyers for former football Coach Ron Prince asked for more than $6 million in damages yesterday and said it was the school, not Prince, who wanted a controversial contract to be confidential.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — There’s less of Ralph Friedgen on the Maryland sideline these days, thanks to a diet that has enabled the Terrapins head football coach to drop a whopping 105 pounds.

Last fall’s visit to Austin, Texas, produced minimal highlights for the Missouri football team. Gored by top-ranked Texas 56-31, the Tigers fell behind by five touchdowns before Bevo finished gnashing his first batch of cud.

Missouri cornerback Kevin Rutland plays the least forgiving position on the football field, especially in the wide-open skies of the Big 12 Conference. To play it well is to be fearless. Maybe even a bit crazy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Joe Barton had a plane to catch, but he wanted to give college football officials a warning before leaving the highly publicized hearing.

In the football coach’s bag of motivational tricks, the sticks far outnumber the carrots. Do it right or run a lap. Do it right or get demoted. Do it right or find a new job.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Whether playing cards with his children or coaching college football, new Wyoming football Coach Dave Christensen embraces any competition that determines winners and losers.

When it comes to catching the football, Missouri assistant coach Andy Hill plays a visualization game with his receivers.

In the second edition of the Behind the Stripes Webcast, Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Joe Walljasper and football beat writer Dave Matter deconstruct Missouri's first preseason football scrimmage.

Few 6-foot-2, 230-pound high school safeties go unnoticed, especially in football-mad Dallas. But Donovan Bonner nearly slipped through the recruiting cracks.

Remember Kevin Hart, the Nevada kid who held a press conference in his high school gym to announce he was signing a letter of intent to play football at California — except that Cal’s coaches had never heard of him?

The proliferation of 7-on-7 summer camps in recent years have helped high school football teams build chemistry within their passing offense, but there’s still four players missing from the equation.

The Missouri football program got good news on Tuesday afternoon when an MRI exam done on Dan Hoch’s left knee revealed only a strained medial collateral ligament. The sophomore right tackle is only expected to miss two weeks and should be back on the field in time for the Tigers’ season opener Sept. 5 against Illinois in St. Louis.

JEFFERSON CITY — The Rock Bridge football team found its quarterback and Hickman discovered a few more offensive weapons during a four-team jamboree Friday night at Adkins Stadium.

HALLSVILLE — Roger VanDeZande called his Southern Boone football team into a huddle around him at midfield at Hallsville High School.

Don’t you dare question Dave Grzyb’s loyalty to his favorite college football team.

The video boards at the new Cowboys Stadium were the center of attention at the building’s first football game, and that wasn’t always a good thing.

The state of Oklahoma appears to be the place to be for Rock Bridge’s two blue-chip football recruits.

It might sound like a dumb question, but your slack-jawed curiosity can’t resist. The other day you witnessed something so spectacular on the practice field, it begged for further explanation. As Missouri players rotated from one drill to another, Blaine Gabbert playfully heaved a football from beyond midfield toward the end zone, as if on a dare, and damn if he didn’t deliver a strike, smacking the tip-top of the left goalpost.

The sun hung over the western edge of Faurot Field on a toasty summer afternoon, failing to cooperate with Jack Smith’s cameras. Directing his latest TV commercial to promote the upcoming Missouri football season, Smith couldn’t get the shot he wanted because, well, that darned sun was casting its beams in the wrong direction.

A “QB” next to his name on the Hickman football roster indicates that Matt Herman is a quarterback. As far as the senior starter is concerned, though, there might as well be a “PG” identifying his position.

The college football season is fewer than 10 days away, even less depending upon your team of choice.

The Hickman football team won’t have to wait long to figure out if it has returned among the best programs in the state.

LIBERTY — The Hickman football team might have had the playmakers to stack up with the fifth-ranked team in Class 6 last night at William Jewell College, but in the trenches, it wasn’t even close.

ASHLAND — First-year Southern Boone football Coach Roger VanDeZande had a simple message after the Eagles’ 46-7 victory over the Cole Camp Bluebirds.

If it seems like the high school football season is starting early this year, well … it kind of is.

As those Friday night lights get set to once again brighten the landscape of Mid-Missouri, more and more calls come in to the newsroom about where, exactly, people can hear the high school football action they’ve been craving since the leaves last fell.

There’s not much debate that college football’s two strongest leagues are the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference.

’Tis the season of preparation. The football Tigers have been fine-tuning their game for weeks, and they’re focused on “squeezing the juice” this Saturday.

I found it amusing that my alma mater has been circulating a video encouraging its fans to show respect for the school’s first football opponent — Navy.

There’s not much debate that college football’s two strongest leagues are the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference.

When Missouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert snags his first snap on Saturday at the Edward Jones Dome, it will mark his first time starting a football game in almost two years. The last came on Sept. 28, 2007, when Gabbert’s Parkway West team lost 37-14 to Parkway Central. A shoulder injury sidelined him the rest of his senior season.

In the mid-1990s, I remember an annual story during the dull days of summer in which I would call Missouri’s strength coach and he would talk with excitement about how more football players than ever were staying on campus and working out in the offseason. By the end of the decade, there was no point making the call because every player was staying on campus and working out.

In search of its first W, the Hickman football team focused on a lot of P’s this week in preparation for its home opener Friday night against Vashon.

At first glance, Hazelwood Central’s season-opening struggle past University City would appear to enhance the Rock Bridge football team’s chances of upsetting the defending Class 6 state champion in the Bruins’ home opener at Sells Field Friday night

The state rankings for Missouri high school football voted on by a 12-person panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. First-place votes in parenthesis, followed by won-loss record, points received and last week’s ranking.

Tom Reynolds, a retired college marketing professor, is unhappy with the leadership of his favorite college football team.

The state rankings for Missouri high school football voted on by a 12-person panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. First-place votes in parenthesis, followed by won-loss record, points received and last week’s ranking.

Their joy was apparent as the Hickman football players huddled together on the east end of LeMone Field and began to count off their points in Friday night’s home opener against Vashon.

Mason Wright, a 12-year-old Smithton Middle School student working as a ball boy, catches raindrops on his tongue during a timeout at a football game Friday night at Hickman High School.

To look at Chase Daniel in a Missouri uniform was to entertain the thought that you, too, could rewrite the record book of a major college football team.

The Rock Bridge football team hasn’t completely turned the corner from consecutive 1-9 seasons, but, following a 31-14 loss to Hazelwood Central last night on Sells Field, it could be said that the Bruins are halfway there.

Kody Walker rushed for 151 yards on 15 attempts and a touchdown to push the Jefferson City football team past Springdale, Ark., 47-21 Friday night at home.

ST. LOUIS — The American Football Coaches Association and NCAA sent out a joint memo earlier this summer encouraging organized teamwide handshakes to take place on the field before kickoffs this season.

Score one for discipline. Oregon’s first-year head football coach, Chip Kelly, suspended star running back LeGarrette Blount for the remainder of the season yesterday, less than 24 hours after the 6-2, 240-pound senior sucker-punched Boise State defensive end Byron Hout following the Ducks’ nationally televised 19-8 loss to the Broncos on the blue turf in Boise, Idaho.

To say the Rock Bridge football team should have won Friday night’s game against Hazelwood Central might be a stretch.

The American Football Coaches Association requested that during the opening weekend of the season each college team should shake hands with the opposing team to show the value of sportsmanship. Some coaches refused to comply out of fear that the handshake would lead to brawls.

ST. LOUIS — No one is better at sniffing out disrespect than a college football team. So when writers, broadcasters and even the occasional third baseman predicted a rebuilding season for Missouri, the Tigers noticed.

ST. LOUIS — At approximately 3:05 p.m. on Saturday, a new era of Missouri football officially came to life with a whoosh.

BYU barged into the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll, making the biggest jump of any team from the preseason rankings after scoring the biggest upset of the opening weekend of the regular season.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It seems every blog, Twitter account and Web page that deals with college football has some disparaging comments about the Ohio State football team’s woeful performance on the national stage the past three years.

The Hickman football team has experienced the highs and lows of lopsided outcomes in its first two games.

The Southern Boone football team continued its impressive start to the 2009 season with a 56-16 victory at Cuba Friday night. The Eagles, who went winless last year, are 3-0.

Two plays into last night’s football game at Park Hill, it looked like the same old story for Hickman.

One week after a dazzling debut against Illinois in St. Louis, the Missouri football team faces Bowling Green in its home opener. Memorial Stadium’s new videoboard will be a welcome addition for fans, but will the Falcons spoil the fun as they have before?

About 15 minutes before kickoff on Saturday, Mary Sloan arrived at the reserved seats on the east side of Memorial Stadium where she has watched Missouri football games for more than two decades: Section LL, Row 28, Seats 4-8.

Weatherspoon will help bolster depleted Missouri football team

Big 12 football title game might stay in Texas

Illinois prep football players' injuries draw lawsuit

Cornerback enjoys return to field as Missouri football practices start

Yost filling several roles for MU football

Missouri high school football player dies

Two offensive line coaches bring more focus to Missouri football

Missouri football team still sorting out return game

Moore adds strong second offensive option for Missouri football team

Young defensive ends provide new burst for Missouri football

Today's Question: What steps should police take to maintain control at MU football games?

Missouri football: Tuesday practice notes

Dalton making up for early mishaps for Missouri football

THURSDAY FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: Vocal, energized defense controls Missouri football scrimmage

Gabbert and high school friend reunite for Missouri football

Preseason football jamboree energizes Rock Bridge

Hickman challenged at preseason football jamboree

Meiners looking forward to early opportunity with Missouri football team

Moe catching on as receiver for Missouri football team

TUESDAY FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: Different urgency for Missouri football team

Dan Hoch working back to MU starting lineup after injury

WEDNESDAY FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: Jones hooks teammates on favorite activity

Rock Bridge senior football standout focused on final season

Hickman begins football season on road

THURSDAY FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: Missouri pass rush highlights final scrimmage

Liberty too tough for Hickman football team

Missouri freshman quarterback Dalton dismissed from football team

Missouri football sophomore McGaffie seeks wide receiver spot

Woodland puts waiting behind, takes to the field for Missouri football team

Pinkel said young Missouri football team must be prepared

VIDEO: Interviews from Missouri football Media Day

St. Louis area natives open Missouri football season at home

Missouri assistant football coaches are familiar faces in new roles

Rock Bridge football player might surprise you

Hickman football team intensifies practices

Missouri football testing youth, depth

A lot different since last time Missouri played Bowling Green in football

Will Ebner seeks more big hits for Missouri football

Hickman football team loses on last-second field goal

Missouri football wideouts make adjustments in time for comeback

Fan Notes: Former Missouri football player finds unique way to navigate tailgate scene

Big 12 football: Cowboys, Wildcats looking to rebound

Questions remain for Missouri football team

Economics big part of Furman-Missouri football game

CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Standing at his locker following his preseason debut, Vince Young pulled on a Steve McNair jersey and smiled. For Young, there was no better setting than the Pro Football Hall of...

I'm going to shoot straight: fall is my favorite time of the year. The cooler weather, the new beginnings that come with a new school year and...ah yes, football. And after just one scrimmage and a...

DEXTER, Mo. -- With one week remaining before the season opener and some more kinks to work out, the Kennett Indians wanted to use Friday's high school football jamboree to get set to kick off the...

Fresh off a strong performance in a season-opening win last week, the Kennett Indians won't have to wait long to get their first tough test of the 2009 football season. That test will be administered...

It's time to put on the pads and tighten up the chin straps... football season is here. Grid Iron fans will get their first glimpse of Dexter High School's 2009 football team Friday evening at 6 p....

Things don't get any easier for Dexter this Friday as the football Bearcats travel to Gosnell, Ark., looking for their first win. Gosnell's ground-and-pound double winged-T offense is a defensive...

Dexter came out on the short end of a football doubleheader against the Polar Bluff Mules Thursday night as the 8th grade and Freshman teams took the field at Charles Bland Stadium. Dexter defenders...

Volney C. Ashford, legendary Missouri Valley College football coach and MVC alumnus, was inducted posthumously into the College Football Hall of Fame Saturday, July 18. Ashford was perhaps best known...

The Missouri Valley College football team is ranked 18th in the College Fanz Sports Network NAIA preseason poll released Wednesday. That corresponds roughly to the No. 16 prediction made in April in...

Marshall football practice starts Monday, Aug. 10 at 6:30 a.m. for 10th- through 12th-grade players. Freshmen will start the Thursday, Aug. 13, with the time to be announced. According to Coach Paul...

KANSAS CITY -- Heart of America Conference coaches expect the Missouri Valley College football team to be in the thick of the title race this season. That's according to the pre-season poll of league...

FAYETTE -- There is some reason to be concerned about the Marshall football team following Friday's performance in the pre-season Jamboree hosted at Central Methodist University's Davis Field in...

SWEET SPRINGS -- After its season opener, the rest of the schedule may appear relatively light to the Sweet Springs football team. Once again, the Greyhounds begin their campaign against the...

SLATER -- Cody Skinner takes the role of leader seriously. The Slater senior showed who was in charge on the football field Friday, racking up 209 all-purpose yards during a 35-7 non-conference...

CHILLICOTHE -- There were moments early in Friday's game at Chillicothe that the Marshall football team had the third-ranked Hornets' backs against the wall. However, the Owls couldn't capitalize on...

SLATER -- Slater got its football season off to a promising start last week by pounding Northwest of Hughesville, 35-8. Now comes the hard part for the Wildcats (1-0): getting a win in the rugged...

SWEET SPRINGS -- The Orrick hangover carried into the 2009 season for the Sweet Springs football team. A year ago, after opening the season with a convincing loss to the defending and eventual Class...

Had Shakespeare's King Richard III been in Marshall head football coach Paul Thomas' shoes Friday, he may have exclaimed, "A stop! A stop! My kingdom for a stop!" Grain Valley scored on six of seven...

While many of the names and even more of the numbers have changed, the "Orange Crunch" defense remains the same: dominating. The Missouri Valley College football team waylaid 12th-ranked Baker 34-0...

ALMA -- It's not often one considers a Week 3 football game between non-conference opponents as being critical, but Friday's clash at Alma could be for Santa Fe. The Chiefs have been hammered by a...

Once upon a time, Smith-Cotton was an occasional whipping boy for the Marshall football team. Those days were over not long after Mark Johnson took over the Tigers' program, and by now beating the...

It was three years ago in a stunning upset at Evangel that the Missouri College football season began its ascent into national prominence. After unexpectedly missing the playoffs last year, the...

CANTON -- So much for the 16th-ranked Missouri Valley College football team overlooking a weak opponent. The visiting Vikings methodically dismantled Heart of America Conference foe Culver-Stockton,...

ALMA -- Santa Fe denied a potential game-tying two-point conversion Friday to hold off Wentworth Military Academy (1-2) for a 22-20 non-conference home win. No further details were available at press...

EDINA -- Knox County avenged last year's loss to Slater by winning the non-conference rematch at home Friday, 51-7. Senior Kennan Gillaspy ran for two first-half touchdowns, from 55 and 1 yards out,...

CONCORDIA -- The Sweet Springs football team recorded its first win of the season Friday, but blew enough opportunities to make the final minutes of its 20-18 I-70 Conference victory at St. Paul...

Give the winless Marshall football team credit at least for its resilience. Just when it appears a state-ranked opponent is ready to blow the Owls off the field, they somehow answer and sometimes dig...

Effective for the 2009 football season, the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) has signed an agreement to send one of its institutions to the Kanza Bowl at Hummer Sports Park in Topeka, Kan., to face a member of the Lone Star Conference.

The countdown is on for the coaching staff and players of the Neosho High School football program as the official start to the fall practice season is Monday.

Ask any football coach out there and, naturally, they’ll say losing the team’s all-time offensive leader would be a difficult hurdle to overcome.

The Green Bay Packers have many fans in Southwest Missouri.

Saturday night was a night of fun and football — the first football played since last November for the Neosho Wildcats football team. The school held its annual Black-and-Gold scrimmage at Bob Anderson Stadium in front of a large crowd, who each donated a can of food to enter the game.

Less than a week after a scrimmage amongst themselves, the Neosho Wildcats football team got its first true test of the season when it competed in the Parkview Jamboree Friday night against the host Vikings, Willard and Cassville, all teams with varying degrees of success over recent years.

With unseasonable temperatures producing a hint of football weather, and a couple of new coaches marching the sidelines, four area Missouri Class 1 schools finally got to strap on the gear and hit someone other than a teammate at Friday’s Jasper Jamboree.

View unpublished photos from the football action Friday night at Junge Field in Joplin

There were many highlights for the McDonald County Mustangs football team Friday in its jamboree at Kelly Field in Aurora, though none bigger than its play against Branson, a playoff team in 2008.

The East Newton Patriots football team got a chance to see many of its young players, many of whom will get starting assignments this Friday, when Mount Vernon visits for the home opener, in action Friday night in Pleasant Hope.

The high school football season kicks off Friday. Every Monday, we will post games for you to pick the winner. Please e-mail your winning selections only from each game to superpigskinpredictions@yahoo.com, no later than 5 p.m. Friday.

Sky High Broadcasting and the KNEO Sports Network have announced their plans and schedule for broadcasting the entire 2009 Seneca Indians football season.

The Neosho football Wildcats will open the 2009 season on Friday against the Seneca Indians as the preseason No. 7 team in Class 4, according to the Associated Press poll released Wednesday.

The No. 7 ranked Neosho Wildcats football team wins its opener 42-18.

 

It took a 7 minutes, 2 seconds drive for the Seneca Indians football team to not only take a lead over Neosho, but to get momentum in their favor.

The Greenfield Wildcats football roster may not have many players, but the ones they do have sure are talented ones.

It is Week 2 of the high school football season, and every Monday, we will post games for you to pick the winner. Please e-mail your winning selections only from each game to superpigskinpredictions@yahoo.com, no later than 5 p.m. Friday.

View more than 20 photos from Friday night's game.

The Seneca Indians football team made quite a statement in the second half and by doing so, rolled to a 35-19 victory over Lamar in Big 8 Conference action Friday at Thomas O’Sullivan Stadium.

It is Week 2 of the high school football season, and every Monday, we will post games for you to pick the winner. Please e-mail your winning selections only from each game to superpigskinpredictions@yahoo.com, no later than 5 p.m. Friday.

This week’s games:
BLACK
  Neosho at McDonald County
    3rd grade: 10 a.m.
    4th grade: 11:30 a.m.
    5th grade: 1 p.m.
    6th grade: 2:30 p.m.
GOLD
  East Newton at Neosho
    3rd grade: 10 a.m.
    4th grade: 11:30 a.m.
    5th grade: 1 p.m.
    6th grade: 2:30 p.m.

Two football coaches with plenty of experience in running high-powered offense gave fans a show at the Ozark-Neosho football game.

More than 50 images from the pregame ceremony, band performance and Neosho football victory over Ozark Friday night.

In a matter of seconds, two mistakes turned into points and that was the boost Liberal need to pull away from Diamond for good Friday in Spring River Valley Conference football action.

It is Week 4 of the high school football season, and every Monday, we will post games for you to pick the winner. Please e-mail your winning selections only from each game to superpigskinpredictions@yahoo.com, no later than 5 p.m. Friday.

The Neosho junior high seventh grade football team started its season Tuesday at home and dropped a doubleheader to the newly-formed Joplin ?North/East team.

The Kirkwood Middle School Football Program is still accepting players for the coming season. The program is open to 7th and 8th graders at both Nipher and North Kirkwood Middle Schools.

Kirkwood High School football Coach Larry Frost said his varsity squad has the potential to rack up wins in 2009. Still, it will take a little time before he can fully access his team's ability.

One for the pinky. Webster Groves Coach Cliff Ice is certain his 11th football squad will be a strong contender to win the Class 5 Missouri State Show-Me State Championship.

Vianney Coach Gene Gladstone walked toward his football team's locker on Aug. 28 at Don Heeb Field. The Golden Griffins just lost an 18-7 season-opening, non-conference game to Oakville -- a game Gladstone said his squad had ample opportunities to win.

The St. Louis County Library Foundation will present sportswriter and Webster Groves resident Greg Marecek, author of "The St. Louis Football Cardinals: A Celebration of The Big Red," on Wednesday, Sept.

The Sept. 4 home opener against Rockwood Summit began with the Webster Groves Statesmen introduced not as individual football players, but as a team. Statesmen Coach Cliff Ice was making a statement: The most important name appears on the front, not on the back of his players' jerseys.

As the 2009 high school football season gets underway, Kirkwood High School has many questions to be answered. At the top of the question list: Just how good would Kirkwood be this season? Kirkwood got an inkling of what may transpire after mashing Marquette, 42-16, in its season opener on Sept.