Football

he Governors were spoiling for one of the early season’s biggest upsets a year ago, leading the Bulldogs, 10-0, at the half. Super-quick Bearden back Devrin Young, who’s been offered by Stanford, was held to less than 100 yards rushing, ...

Maryville’s Rebels opened last season’s meeting with a 15-play, eight-minute statement drive and never looked back in rolling to a 38-17 rout of West. Maryville limited West to a field goal through three quarters and yielded only 59 yards of ...

The Tornadoes were coming off a win over Maryville a year ago heading into this one, and it showed. The Redskins trailed, 7-0, at the half and remained close until Alcoa opened some breathing room with two third quarter touchdowns ...

The Mountaineers blew out the Panthers, 31-3, last season in Lenoir City. The story of the game was defense. While the offense struggled for a half, Heritage trailing, 3-0, at the break, end Evan Brown and the defense kept the ...

After a turnover, the Mountaineer defense withstood a Cherokee drive that began first-and-goal at the Heritage 7-yard line with seven minutes remaining in Week 1 last season. South-Doyle would net 2 yards in four snaps in a 26-19 Mountaineer win. ...

It’s easy to forget it was 27-24 Alcoa with less than a minute to play in the third quarter. Maryville didn’t have the ball very much in what became a 41-24 loss to the Tornadoes last season at Goddard Field, ...

The Governors won in a thriller a year ago, getting a two-point conversion run after a touchdown with four seconds remaining to extract a 35-34 win. It was 14-14 at the half on a night William Blount passed for 192 ...

Anyone familiar with Tony Ierulli is aware the Maryville College football coach knows a thing or two about being tough. The Fighting Scots weren’t even in full pads yet, and Ierulli’s voice was already getting hoarse on Monday. His toughness, ...

You saw it in Rommel Hightower’s declining numbers. You saw it in the injuries to quarterbacks. Maryville College needed a bigger line. “It all starts up front,” sophomore Lane Dodson said. “If we can’t move the (opposing) linemen, if we ...

“The Six Million Dollar Man” went to high school there. Harvey Lee Yeary, a.k.a. actor Lee Majors, was a pretty good football player for the Middlesboro Yellow Jackets back in the 1950s. The future Col. Steve Austin was talented enough ...

The state record for passing touchdowns in a season is 48. Just saying. Austin Tallant opened Tuesday’s inaugural maroon and white scrimmage with a quick, sideline strike to senior Steven Isom. One play later, the Alcoa quarterback went deep down ...

At 12.01 a.m. Monday, the Heritage High School football team emerged from a tunnel beneath the stadium and strode out onto the game field. The lights were on. The cheerleaders were there. There were fans in the stands. By 12:15, ...

This time last year, David Gregory was still finalizing his staff at William Blount. The offense the then-first-year coach wanted to run wasn’t anything like the one he was forced to put on the field. Promoted to head coach after ...

The high today in Yuma, Ariz., will reach 114 degrees. It’ll be 95 by 9 a.m. It isn’t expected to get a whole lot better when the Arizona Western College football team begins arriving for summer workouts on Monday. The ...

A projected banner year in area recruiting is off to a fast start with Alcoa High School seniors Taharin Tyson and Derek Evans both receiving Division I scholarship offers from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point recently. The 6-foot, ...