For the third time this season, South Arkansas College sophomore second baseman Trace Shoup has been named a NJCAA D-II Region 2 Player of the Week.

Arkansas Razorbacks freshman Derrian Ford, who led Magnolia to three state basketball championships, announced Thursday that he’s entering the NCAA’s transfer portal.

For the first time, the South Arkansas College Stars baseball team has cracked the NJCAA Division II top 20 weekly poll.

For the second consecutive week, a member of the South Arkansas Community College baseball team has been selected as a NJCAA Region 2 Player of the Week.

SEARCY – Weston Jameson, who has ties to Magnolia, has been hired as the new head men’s basketball coach at Harding University.

South Arkansas Community College standout forward Kylee Portilloz has been named second team All-Region 2 of NJCAA’s Division II.

The NJCAA has selected South Arkansas Community College freshman forward Kylee Portilloz as Division II Basketball Player of the Week, the first national honor ever received by a SouthArk student-athlete.

STATESBORO, GA -- Taylor Reed, who has coaching experience at three Power 5 programs, has been named as the running backs coach for Georgia Southern by head coach Clay Helton.

The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference will reinstate the sport of football as an officially sponsored conference sport effective the 2024 playing season.

South Arkansas Community College freshman forward Kylee Portilloz was selected as the women’s basketball NJCAA Division II Region 2 Player of the Week for the week ending November 13.

Britney Yada, a native of Hilo, Hawaii, posted a hot final round of 65 on Sunday to win the 2022 Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout at Mystic Creek Golf Club.

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.