A big-play night led to two big wins for the Arab Junior High football teams Tuesday night.

Arab’s varsity volleyball team won a big match at 6A, Area 15 rival Scottsboro on Monday, 25-17, 17-25, 25-19, 25-23.

After announcing on Sept. 4 this his entire team and coaching staff would be under quarantine until Sept. 10, Brindlee Mountain coach Keith Garner said if everything went right, his squad would be healthy and ready to play against defending 2A state champion Fyffe tomorrow night.

Arab coach Lee Ozmint was highly disappointed after his team fell 7-3 to 6A, Region 7 Scottsboro at Trammell Stadium last Friday night, but he was guarded in his comments.

A 48-6 home loss may not sound encouraging to some folks, but it actually represented a small step forward for the Brindlee Mountain football team.

The season is moving too quickly for teams to get bogged down thinking about big wins or losses.

While high school, college and even pro football teams deal with the uncertainty of playing this season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, youth football locally is full speed ahead.

I grew up in north Alabama in the late 1960s and early ’70s. My favorite teams were the Atlanta Braves and the Alabama Crimson Tide.

It’s probably a good time to remind readers the difference between postponed and canceled when it comes to any event, but especially in this section.

As more national and international sporting events fall victim to the COVID-19 crisis, the local sports scene continues to take hits as well.

There’s a real urge to take a light-hearted approach in this space today, it being April Fool’s Day and all. But times are weird enough as it is, especially in sports, without some smart aleck making things worse.

Well, it’s now official. Gov. Kay Ivey said Thursday she had given state school Superintendent Eric Mackey the go-ahead to have students finish the school year online.

Another annual event has been impacted by the coronavirus (did you know COV-19 is short for coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19?)

Imagine being locked inside a bomb shelter for the last three weeks. Imagine walking out this past week to the world we know today, much less the sports world we know today.

Here are some interesting Major League Baseball scheduling situations, considering all the chatter revolving around the Astros’ sign-stealing controversy.

In reporting on Arab’s most recent state wrestling championship – its eighth or 11th, depending on who you ask – I cut right to the chase about what I considered to be the most important angles involving the Knights.

Arab already has been reclassified as a Class 6A school for the next two academic years, beginning later this year.

Arab boys coach Justin Jonus was thrilled after his team defeated Scottsboro in a nail-biter in the 5A, Area 15 Tournament at Guntersville last week (Feb. 4). He knew the win, regardless of what happened in the area tournament final three days later, gave his team the opportunity to accompli…

After clearing one hurdle – simply getting to the Von Braun Center on Thursday – the Arab wrestling team cleared a few more obstacles on the first day of the AHSAA Class 1A-5A tournament en route – the Knights hope – to another state championship.

There’s a reason Arab has won 10 state championships under head coach Michael Pruitt (and maybe an 11th come Saturday evening).

Arab’s wrestling team is competing this weekend (yesterday and today) in the Class 1A-5A North Super Sectional at the Birmingham CrossPlex.

Seven Arab Park and Recreation teams participated in their respective Marshall County Tournaments last weekend, and two of them came away with county championships.

It’s been a while since we’ve had a week of news and sports that rivaled what has happened in the last seven days (actually the last five days if you want to get technical.

The first two times the Brindlee Mountain girls basketball team played 3A, Area 13 rival Holly Pond this season, the Lady Lions lost by 35 and 16 points.

What proved to be a long and frustrating season came to an end Monday night for the Arab Lady Knights in a 50-36 loss to Scottsboro in the Class 5A, Area Tournament semifinals.

We’ve all seen stories such as the one Arab basketball fans witnessed Tuesday night. A kid who’s been in the background, who normally doesn’t play, gets a chance to participate in a real game in the sport he clearly loves so much, or else he wouldn’t be hanging around the local team with suc…

Arab wrestling coach Michael Pruitt meant no disrepect to any team when he said this past Tuesday night that he felt like the Class 1A-5A Duals State Tournament had been decided the week before, when Arab rallied to win at Jasper with a last-match pin to advance to the North semifinals.

The Brindlee Mountain girls saw first-hand Monday night why Ider is ranked ninth in the latest Alabama Sports Writers Association Class 2A poll.