An endowed athletic scholarship has been established at Ouachita Baptist University in honor of David Sharp, the university’s director of athletics, and his four decades of service to Ouachita.

Four South Arkansas and Northeast Texas NCAA athletes have signed Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) deals with Farmers Bank & Trust of Magnolia. Derrian Ford, Landon Jackson, Carlee Ratcliff and Frankie Price will be partnering with the bank for the upcoming year.

NBC Sports and the Bayou Classic have agreed to a three-year media rights extension through 2024.

South Arkansas Community College assistant basketball coach Nate Evans has accepted the role of interim head coach for the Stars women’s program after current women’s head coach Nate Davis this week announced his pending departure.

Ouachita Baptist University women's basketball head coach Robert Dallimore has announced the hiring of Nate Davis as the program's new assistant coach.

Abby Davis has been appointed director of athletics at Arkansas Tech University on a permanent and full-time basis.

Magnolia High School 2022 graduate Olivia Munn has signed a letter of intent to play softball for South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado.

South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado has announced the hire of Cam Robinson, a current assistant coach at East Central University in Ada, OK, as its new men’s basketball head coach.

LAS VEGAS – The Jacksonville Jaguars have selected Gregory Junior, cornerback from Ouachita Baptist University, in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL Draft.

Waldo native Sytia Messer, a 22-year coaching veteran who won a national basketball title, has been named head women’s coach at the University of Central Florida.

The Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout has a new tour sponsor.

Grambling State University supporters have been revved up by the news that NY Racing owner John Cohen, a GSU alum, will have a car and driver return to the NASCAR Cup Series this week.

SHREVEPORT, LA -- The 45th Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl begins at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. No. 13 Brigham Young takes on Alabama-Birmingham.

Derrian Ford stepped aboard the Muss Bus on Sunday afternoon.

Kum-Kang Park never led until her last shot of the week. In fact, Park, 20, the Symetra Tour rookie from the Republic of Korea, didn’t even look at a scoreboard during any of her trips around Mystic Creek Golf Club until she walked up to the final green and surveyed the 20-footer she had for…

Fatima Fernandez Cano (Santiago, Spain) continued to show Saturday why she is one of the top players on the Symetra Tour.

On a demanding golf course, Fatima Fernandez Cano fired a six-birdie, two-bogey round of 68 to take a two-shot lead Friday over five players in the Murphy USA El Dorado Classic.

The 18th stop on the 2021 “Road to the LPGA” takes the Symetra Tour to Mystic Creek Golf Club for the sixth annual Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout Friday through Sunday.

Kirby Shepherd, a Southern Arkansas University graduate, has been named the new athletic director at Jacksonville College, Jacksonville, TX.

Former Southern Arkansas football player Tanner Hudson is one four men signed by the San Francisco 49ers to its practice squad.

Delta State University, a frequent athletic foe of Southern Arkansas University, has released its policy for alcohol service at the Cleveland, MS campus.

Arkansas has 14 current or former athletes participating in this summer’s Olympic Games, which begin Friday in Tokyo.

Dates have been set for the 2021 Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout.

Magnolia High School 2021 graduate Jade Snider recently signed a letter-of-intent from South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado to play softball for the SouthArk Stars.

Former Magnolia High School basketball star Solomon Bozeman is the new men’s basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

Former Magnolia and Southern Arkansas baseball star Hayden Simpson has been named pitching coach for the University of Central Arkansas baseball team.

CONWAY -- The winningest coach in University of Central Arkansas baseball history went out with one final win Saturday.

McNeil High graduate and former Lady Eagles basketball player Deidra Johnson has been hired as associate head coach for the Indiana State women’s basketball program.

Padraic McMeel, director of Athletics at the University of Arkansas-Monticello, will resign effective July 1.

Intercollegiate athletics at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado took a big leap this week with the hiring of the first head coaches for the school’s new diamond-sport programs.

Arkansas’ Matt Goodheart was named the SEC Player of the Week on Monday after helping power the Razorbacks through a perfect 5-0 stretch.

The intercollegiate athletic program at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado will include men’s baseball and women’s softball teams for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Magnolia High School senior Keshunti Brantley recently signed a letter-of-intent to play basketball for South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado.

MONTICELLO -- Fans of horses, cowboys, and cowgirls can put their boots on. The rodeo is coming to Monticello.

Former Southern Arkansas linebacker Don Unamba has signed with the Canadian Football League’s Ottawa Redblacks.

Zac Harrington of Texas A&M University-Texarkana was named the Red River Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week. This is the second set of weekly awards for the 2021 baseball season.

Arkansas and Arkansas State will play their first football game against each other in a contest set for September 6, 2025 at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.

In an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19, officials at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado have elected to hold this season’s men’s and women’s home basketball games without fans in attendance.

Shreveport’s Independence Bowl Foundation has cancelled the 2020 football bowl game.

Baylie Ainsworth, daughter of John and Cristal Ainsworth and a senior at Emerson High School in Emerson, has signed a national letter of intent and committed to play college softball at SAU Tech in Camden.

The Texas A&M University-Texarkana Athletics Department has quarantined three of the university’s intercollegiate athletic teams after a player on each team tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.

An employee of Fort Smith country station KMAG 99.1 is out of a job after making a derogatory social media post toward a University of Arkansas women’s basketball player.

University of Louisiana Monroe Athletics and Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC), a regional grocery store company with more than 180 locations and 10 throughout the Monroe area, have agreed to a new partnership.

Eastern Kentucky University softball added Robyn Leighton to the staff, head coach Jane Worthington announced.

Former Southern Arkansas women’s basketball assistant coach Derrick Mitchell, who produced a winning program at Voorhees College (S.C.) the past six seasons, will look to build on his success as the new head men's basketball coach at Wiley College in Marshall, TX.

The daughter of a Magnolia High School graduate has committed to play college basketball at Southern Methodist University.

Last August, Hailey McNee was on the visiting sideline as the University of Nebraska at Kearney volleyball team defeated Wyoming in four sets.

As basketball fans across the country remember the life of Eddie Sutton, many are reflecting on the components of a career that finally in 2020 earned him a spot in the Naismith Basketball Hall Of Fame.

Markell Cox has been named head women’s basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

University of Arkansas at Monticello women's basketball head coach Greg Long has accepted a position to be the head coach for Mississippi College women's basketball.