BY DUDLEY E. DAWSON Midland won just one football game during the 2023 8-man football season, but head coach T.J. Pugh could still see something special coming in the future. That success arrived earlier than Pugh expected as the Mustangs roared through the 2024 regular season unbeaten and snatched the North’s top state playoff seed. […]

BY DUDLEY E. DAWSON It’s not surprising at all that the Class 6A-Central conference championship will be decided Friday night between a pair of gridiron unbeatens. Bryant (9-0, 6-0) will host Conway (9-0, 6-0) in a 7 p.m. battle between two programs that have steamrolled their foes this season. The subplot is former Hornets head […]

BY DUDLEY E. DAWSON What’s on the line Thursday night is what former Joe T. Robinson assistant Brian Maupin envisioned once he took the Maumelle head football coaching job three years ago. Maupin’s Hornets (7-2, 5-1) can grab a share of the Class 5A-Central championship with a home win over front-running Joe T. Robinson (8-1, […]

Fearless Friday Highlights: Week 9

FOX 16 is bringing you the best highlights as Rison takes on Fordyce during Week 9 of Fearless Friday

Fearless Friday Statewide: Week 9

Fearless Friday Player of the Week: Maddox Berry, Morrilton

Fearless Friday Play of the Night: Week 9

Fearless Friday NWA Game of the Week: Greenwood at FS Southside

Fearless Friday Week 9: Lakeside vs Parkview

BY DUDLEY E. DAWSON The biggest high school football game in Arkansas this weekend is arguably the Class 4A-1 battle between a pair of unbeatens. Defending league champion Elkins (8-0, 5-0) will host challenger Gravette (8-0, 5-0) Friday night in a 7 p.m. clash An Elks win will clinch the conference’s top playoff seed while […]

BY DUDLEY E. DAWSON In 43 years as a head football coach at Huntsville, Harrison and now in his first season at Farmington, Tommy Tice had coached in 460 games before last Friday night. But 461 was unlike anything he had ever seen as Farmington downed previously unbeaten Morrilton 78-75 in a game that goes […]