Jaguars Football Fever

Rodney Webb was approved at Monday’s MISD school board meeting as the new head football coach and campus athletic director at Horn High School. He replaces former coach Don Payne, the program’s only coach since it started in 2000, who stepped down in December.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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MOBILE (AP) - Former Alabama star Joey Jones, introduced Friday as coach of the University of South Alabama’s first football team, said the best players in the Southeast live on the Gulf Coast around Mobile and he plans to make recruiting them a priority.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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College football Jaguars to have first team in 2009: Former Alabama receiver Joey Jones was introduced Friday as the coach of South Alabama’s…Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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PRATTVILLE — Prattville football coach Bill Clark acknowledged Saturday that he has been approached about a position with the University of South Alabama’s football program.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The report from the Jacksonville Jaguars was glowing. So Team Alabama coach Mike Jones didn’t waste any time in the All American Football League’s supplemental draft Saturday.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Mobile and he plans to make recruiting them a priority.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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NBC 15 Sports has learned that Joey Jones has accepted an offer to become the first football coach at USA.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Former Alabama star Joey Jones, introduced Friday as the coach of South Alabama’s first football team, said the best players in the Southeast live on the Gulf Coast around Mobile and he plans to make recruiting them a priority. Jones, a 45-year-old Mobile native who spent the past two years at Birmingham-Southern College, where he […]

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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Birmingham-Southern College coach Joey Jones has been hired as South Alabama’s first football coach — a move that takes him back to his native Mobile and eventually into the Sun Belt Conference.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Mickey Matthews interviewed with South Alabama for the Jaguars’ start-up program. Mickey Matthews said he will remain as James Madison’s football coach after reportedly being offered the job at South Alabama, which is searching for a coach to lead its start-up program. Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Rodney Webb was approved at Monday’s MISD school board meeting as the new head football coach and campus athletic director at Horn High School. He replaces former coach Don Payne, the program’s only coach since it started in 2000, who stepped down in December.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Former Alabama star Joey Jones, introduced Friday as the coach of South Alabama’s first football team, said the best players in the Southeast live on the Gulf Coast around Mobile and he plans to make recruiting them a priority.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Former Alabama star Joey Jones, introduced today as the coach of South Alabama’s first football team, said the best players in the Southeast live on the Gulf Coast around Mobile and he plans to make recruiting them a priority.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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South Alabama has hired Joey Jones as the school’s first football coach. Jones has spent the past two years as the head coach at Birmingham Southern. Jones will make $275,000 per season for the Jaguars, a big raise from his salary with the Panthers.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The Thomas Jefferson High School athletic program has owned Laurel Highlands this season.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, right, talks with Seahawks quarterbacks coach Jim Zorn during drills at an NFL football minicamp in this May 4, 2007 file photo, in Kirkland, Wash. Zorn has been hired as coach of the Washington Redskins, The Associated Press has learned on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Jim Zorn is promoted to head coach after a whopping two weeks as the Redskins’ new offensive coordinator. Is he more qualified than Jaguars defensive coordinator Gregg Williams? No, but Zorn might be a better yes-man for meddlesome owner Dan Snyder, Pete Prisco says. […]

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Tim Michael, the assistant activities director at Blue Springs South High School, stood in front of a massive crowd that expanded from a conference room into the school’s common area.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Los Lunas High School is one step closer in its search for a permanent varsity football coach, while Belen High School is re-evaluating how it will go about its search for one.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Eight years ago at the car wash on the corner of Washington and Avenue B, Anthony Collins couldn’t envision ever getting ready for the National Football League.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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HONOLULU (AP) — They could have played this Pro Bowl on the beach with flag football rules. All of which was to the liking of Terrell Owens and Adrian Peterson.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Football recruits usually headline Wednesday’s ‘National Signing Day,’ but the day when high school athletes can officially sign college scholarship offers also includes a variety of other sports.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Nearly 250 young football players and cheerleaders flocked to Vidinha Stadium yesterday for the 2008 Pro Bowl Kaua‘i Youth Clinic to learn drills and cheers — and to get autographs from professional football players.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fired in Buffalo and passed over for the head coaching vacancy in Washington, Gregg Williams is headed to Jacksonville.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Fired in Buffalo and passed over in Washington, Gregg Williams is now headed to Jacksonville.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Fired in Buffalo and passed over in Washington, Gregg Williams is now headed to Jacksonville. Williams was named the team’s defensive coordinator and assistant head coach Wednesday, taking over a unit that struggled at times last year under Mike Smith.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The two teams that made it all the way to the Super 6 state football championship games in Class 5A and 6A - the Briarwood Christian Lions and the Spain Park Jaguars - will have a total of 14 players sign letters of intent Wednesday as part of National Signing Day.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full […]

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Jacksonville names Gregg Williams its defensive coordinator Wednesday after the former Redskins assistant was passed over in the team’s head coaching search. Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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There are scoring droughts, and then there’s what happened to McCluer North Monday afternoon.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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HOOVER - Six Spain Park Jaguars signed letters of intent to play college football Wednesday. Leading the class was defensive end/outside linebacker William Green, who is bound for the University of Florida. Green was one of 22 players that signed with the 2006 national champions.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) — Tom Coughlin met with New York Giants owners before the season and promised dramatic changes. Last night, he delivered.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Old Jacksonville Jaguars and current New York Giants players grumble about how tough Tom Coughlin is. Little do they realize, the taskmaster who has guided the Giants into today’s Super Bowl, has actually mellowed.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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When the National Football League season ended Sunday with the Super Bowl, perhaps no one was happier to see the football calendar turn than Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The New England Patriots stand 60 minutes from the first 19-0 season in NFL history, with the New York Giants, their Super Bowl XLII counterpart, seeking to ruin that run at perfection with a monumental upset on Sunday.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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TUSCALOOSA — Alabama defensive coordinator Kevin Steele was on South Alabama’s campus Thursday to interview a second time for the school’s first head football coach position.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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The 2007 football season came to an end Sunday with the playing (finally) of the Super Bowl. In a few days, South Alabama will take its first serious step in the sport since the school’s board of trustees voted to add football to its athletic program in early December.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Auburn is up to 29 commitments in its 2008 class with recent pledges from a deep snapper and defensive lineman. Fort Lauderdale, Fla., native Dax Dellenbach committed to the Tigers on Thursday, and Hernando, Miss., lineman Andre Wadley gave his pledge Wednesday, according to Rivals.com.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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Leeds captain Kevin Sinfield may consider a move to American football at the end of his rugby league career.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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PHOENIX — Highlights from National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell’s “State of the NFL” address from Friday:Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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If you’re a high school football team looking for a head coach, what better place than to hire someone with ties to Poly High’s program.Hat tip: Yahoo! NewsRead full story

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