LAMP’s Grace Hoffman only played in the second set of a three-set match in the Alabama All-Star Sports Week volleyball game, but the junior made an immediate impact by recording 10 assists, the third highest total on the team, along with one dig.

Alex Kohn has played some of the best teams in the state during his career at Montgomery Academy, but the senior wasn’t prepared for the fast, aggressive pace of the North all-stars in the Alabama All-Star Sports Week boys’ soccer game at Emory Folmar Soccer Complex on Wednesday.

The South all-star girls’ soccer team was overmatched for much of Wednesday evening, but Montgomery Academy senior Virginia Meacham enjoyed the experience at Emory Folmar Soccer Complex, knowing there were more important things than the score.

An opportunity to play in an all-star game with the best players in the state doesn’t always turn out the way you had hoped.

HOOVER -- When Bryan Harsin stepped to the podium of the Southeastern Conference Media Days Kickoff on Thursday afternoon, no one was sure what to expect from Auburn’s new football coach.

HOOVER -- It isn’t like you’re going to come at Nick Saban with a lot of new questions on predictions, hypotheticals and comparisons for the 2021 season.

Montgomery Catholic wing Matthew Reardon, who helped propel the Knights to a runner-up position in Class 3A competition this past season, played for just over five minutes in the Alabama All-Star Sports Week boys basketball game, which the North won by a score of 93-85.

An all-star game never quite plays out like a regular basketball game in terms of offensive schemes and defensive strategy.

The South all-star baseball team rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh for a walk-off win in game one and salvaged a 3-3 tie in the nightcap to win the baseball series with their North counterparts in the Alabama All-Star Sports Week baseball game at Riverwalk Stadium.

The National College Football Awards Association launched the annual watch lists for college football awards, beginning with the Maxwell Award and the Chuck Bednarik Award on Monday morning.

They waged six of the most exciting battles in girls’ basketball last year, so when Prattville Christian Academy point guard Ella Jane Connell and Montgomery Academy point guard Chloe Johnson wind up on the same team, what is the result?

Haley Brightwell is accustomed to leading.

The Alabama Independent School Association’s state football championships are returning to Cramton Bowl on Nov. 19.

LAMP is narrowing its focus on hiring a boys’ basketball coach and principal Matthew Monson said he hopes to have a new coach in place by the end of the month.

After last year’s abbreviated Major League Baseball draft left Parker Chavers waiting to hear his name called, the former LAMP standout entered this year’s draft with a much better understanding of what to expect.

Defending Class 4A state champion Handley will be riding a five-game winning streak heading into the AHSAA’s 16th Kickoff Classic clash versus Guntersville at Cramton Bowl on Aug. 19, while a pair of 7A schools, Dothan and Bob Jones, square off the following night in the stadium.

It came almost out of nowhere, but the third bout between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder is off, at least for July 24th. Reportedly, Fury and at least ten members of his team contracted COVID-19 on Thursday.

It’s still early July, but the 2021 football season is rapidly approaching.

It’s not like Haley Rosa didn’t already have enough to do.

Just a short year after looking for a replacement for veteran baseball coach Chad Smith, LAMP principal Matthew Monson is searching resumes again after boys’ basketball coach Marcus Townsend announced his retirement.

Lauren Webster Veach knows a lot about the tradition of Alabama Christian Academy’s softball program.

The first official visit was the only one he needed.

Alex Kohn has to balance two sports during the summer and it’s difficult to prioritize one over the other.

Alabama All-Star Sports Week will return to the Capital City after a year off for COVID-19, but the 2021 version has some people shaking their heads.

Last year’s suspension of play for COVID-19 left high school football teams scrambling to start “spring practice” in June in preparation for the fall season.

MARBURY -- Football coach Hayden Stockton laughingly calls Marbury High the “island of misfit toys” when he looks over his group of assistant coaches.

Former Montgomery Academy and University of Alabama standout Hunter Hamrick has been named the assistant men’s golf coach at Alabama, replacing longtime assistant Jon Howell.

Henry Orum was one of the Southeastern Conference’s most dominant runners in the early 1970s, leading Robert E. Lee to both an indoor and outdoor track state championship in 1970 and Alabama to the Southeastern Conference indoor track championship in 1972.

Silence is golden, so they say, and Deontay Wilder looks to prove that come July against Tyson Fury. Tuesday’s press conference announced the third fight between the two heavyweights, but Wilder did not seem interested in participating in the verbal altercations with Fury that occurred in th…

A sub-group of College Football Playoff’s management committee presented a proposal late last week to change the current four-team format to a 12-team event.

After serving for five months in an interim capacity, Katie Barton will now have the title of athletic director at St. James in addition to her role as girls’ basketball coach.

The Alabama women’s track team, ignited by Amaris Tyynismaa and fueled by Tamara Clark, finished in fourth place at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, their first podium appearance since 1987.