Faith and Charity: Yeates sisters making impacts at Columbus Christian Academy, Columbus High School
Charity Yeates still remembers the game.
Prep football capsules: Heritage Academy’s run defense will be tested at Lamar School
Heritage Academy head football coach Sean Harrison is used to facing a pass-heavy attack when the Patriots face Lamar School.
Entering Year 2 of rebuild, Columbus High football’s improvement will be challenged right away
When the Columbus High School football team was cleared to practice in early July and began preparing for the 2020 season, the Falcons were understandably excited.
Columbus High ready to take on Provine
A new era of Columbus High football kicks off Friday night.
CHS abruptly fires head football coach
Columbus High School football coach Randal Montgomery had talked with unbridled enthusiasm about the 2018 season.
Roses and thorns: 5/4/14
A rose to the Market Street Festival, which was held this weekend in downtown Columbus. We acknowledge all who had a hand in making this year’s event a success, including Main Street Columbus and director Barbara Bigelow, and her staff, more than 400 volunteers, police/fire personnel, entertainers, organizer Amber Brislin and, of course, visitors.
Columbus High star Hackler signs with Itawamba C.C.
Ricky Hackler knew his day was coming. The Columbus High School senior just didn’t know it would be here so soon.
Columbus basketball extends win streaks in sweep of Grenada
Columbus High School basketball player Roshad Meeks would make a great party planner.
Falcons win defensive struggle
STARKVILLE — Quite often, 35 points will not make a basketball coach very happy.
Columbus High boys basketball coach Sammy Smith loved every one of his team’s 35 points Friday morning.
Battle-tested teams highlight field at Horne Classic
Gerald Glass considers himself a teacher first and a coach second.
Columbus High makes plans for Joe Horne Christmas Classic
Sammy Smith can sit back, relax, and wait.
PREP ROUNDUP: Columbus High pitches shutout at Aberdeen
Columbus High opened the 2012 prep football season with an impressive 21-0 shutout of Aberdeen High School Friday night at Falcon Field.
Pair of Falcons sign scholarship offers
Columbus High School senior baseball player Glenn Robinson did not make the junior high baseball team when he was in seventh grade.
Columbus track team ready for stretch run
Yvonne Hairston and Jim Hamilton are going to do their best to make sure the members of the Columbus High School track and field teams are peaking in time for the state meets.
Columbus High wins share of region title
TUPELO — The Columbus High School baseball team earned a signature win Wednesday night on the home field of one of its biggest rivals.
Columbus pitching shuts down Caledonia
On senior night at Sammy Fletcher Field, Columbus High left-handed pitcher Tyler Blevins took the baseball and completely shut down a confident Caledonia High lineup.
Blevins, Lee pace Columbus past Grenada
At first, winning big baseball games came as a surprise to Columbus High.
Now, a youthful Falcons squad is basking in such a position.
Tyler Blevin’s two-run double sparked a three-run sixth inning Tuesday as Columbus turned back Grenada 3-2 in a Class 6A, Region 2 matchup at Sammy Fletcher Field.
Caledonia rolls past East Webster, 15-1
The Caledonia High School baseball team took revenge on East Webster on Monday afternoon with a 15-1 victory at Columbus High’s Falcon Field.
Columbus High knocks off Heritage Academy in baseball
Tyler Blevins needs a new nickname.
After losing more than 20 pounds, a slimmed down Blevins no longer resembles the “Bubble” moniker that fans shouted out at him Saturday night.
Blevins’ effort in the eighth inning showed he might have a headstart on a new nickname of choice: Clutch.
Proctor set tone for Columbus
Inexperience never was an excuse for Katie Proctor.
When she first joined the Columbus High School girls soccer team as a freshman, Proctor didn’t know any way else to play but to go all out. The score or the time remaining in the match didn’t matter because Proctor realized even as a ninth-grader it was up to her to set a pace she hoped others were going to follow.