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Three players from the Mobile County-Baldwin County area have been named to the Alabama Sports Writers Association (AHSAA) Super All-State softball team. Saraland pitcher Myleigh Dobbins, Orange Beach infielder Katie King and Orange Beach pitcher MK McMullan were selected on the 10-player team.
Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) executive director Heath Harmon attended the Alabama Sports Writers Association (ASWA) convention at Jacksonville State University over the weekend. He spoke to the group about the recent change in public and private school state championships, which he described as “historic,” and other issues.
Sportswriter and Mobile native Ivan Maisel, a 2025 inductee into the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame, returned home Tuesday night to serve as a featured speaker at the annual First Light Community Football Preview, as he has done in the past.
South Alabama head coach Major Applewhite deals in realties, and the current reality in college football is not all Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) abilities are the same from one school to the next. As he noted, for some there's a vast difference.
Alabama football head coach Kalen DeBoer returned to Mobile Tuesday night as one of the featured speakers at the annual First Light Community Football Preview. DeBoer shared the podium for the Football Preview with Auburn head coach Alex Golesh, South Alabama head coach Major Applewhite, sportswriter and Mobile native Ivan Maisel and former Senior Bowl executive director and currently a senior personnel director for the NFL's Los Angeles Rams (and Mobile native) Phil Savage.
When the best golfers in the world show up in Southampton, New York at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club for Thursday's first round of the U.S. Open, Jim Fisher will be positioned at his Fairhope home, watching every minute of the tournament through the final round on Sunday.
Alex Golesh, the new football head coach at Auburn, was in Mobile Tuesday night at South Alabama's Mitchell Center as one of the featured speakers for the annual First Light Community Football Preview.
Editor's note: This is the second in a 10-part series of regional football previews involving teams — flag and tackle — in the Lagniappe coverage area.
The Mobile Sports Hall of Fame (MSHOF) officially inducted its four-member Class of 2026 Tuesday night at South Alabama's Mitchell Center, increasing its membership to 154. Hank Aaron, Riley Smith and the 1947 Mobile Bears baseball team (honorary) made up the first class in 1988.
Mikhail Torrance, a former standout basketball player at Mary G. Montgomery (MGM) High School and the University of Alabama, died Thursday at the age of 37. No cause of death has been released.
