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Author: Wes Blankenship
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Pell City Finds its Replacement for Rush Propst
Nick Gentry will replace Rush Propst as the new head football coach at Pell City High School. Stepping into this role and replacing that coach is not a task for the faint of heart. Luckily, Gentry played football for Nick Saban at Alabama. So around Pell City, he’s automatically a step or two above a…
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Black Bear Walks Through California HS Football Workout
Aw hell, a real live black bear showed up to Truckee High School Football’s summer workout y’all. Bear crawls will never be the same for the Wolverines. Truckee’s High School Football account shared the video on X, and it is really something for a couple of reasons. First of all, there’s the black bear just…
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High School Band Postpones Swirlies with College Football 25 Cameo
The Father Ryan High School Band just delayed an entire week of swirlies from all the jocks thanks to a cameo in EA Sports’s dynamite video game drop, College Football 25. EA Sports dropped its sick trailer for the game a few days ago. You can’t help but hear the tight snares and crisp brass…
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Coffeetown Football Spring News and Notes
Coffeetown football has a lot to like, and a little to hate coming out of spring camp. Let’s start with the good news. Transfer quarterback Blip Adams can spin it. Literally. Adams threw the pill around like an unlicensed pharmacist in the Copperheads’ spring scrimmage, to the tune of 358 yards and four touchdowns. He…
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Teddy Bridgewater Comes Home to Coach High School Football
Teddy Bridgewater wrapped up his first spring as the head coach of Miami Northwestern Senior High School as the sun’s final tendrils tickled Biscayne Bay. A crowd of family, friends and fans surrounded the Bulls’ football field. In their final huddle before summer, Coach Bridgewater told his players to take one more lap around it.…
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Rush Propst Will Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Rush Propst will not go gentle into that good night. Some interested parties in Pell City, Alabama, wanted him gone. But the high school football coach’s version of Freddy Krueger lives to coach another day. Propst’s job was on the chopping block during a Pell City board of education special meeting on Wednesday. The school…
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The Sled Don’t Care How You Got Here, Son – It’s Just There to be Pushed
The Sled took up an entire corner of our weight room at Collins Hill High School. It was Coach Jim Tiller’s pride and joy. And it was about to be the bane of all of our strength and conditioning existences. We worked and sweated in a dark room with no windows and fluorescent bulbs that…
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Coffeetown football starts spring practice – without any footballs
Coffeetown starts its state football title defense with the first of 10 spring practice sessions this week. The only problem is that a different bunch of copperheads currently defend the team’s only bag of footballs. “This does happen from time to time. It just got more difficult now ever since the county stopped letting me…
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Coffeetown Defeats ‘ToddZilla’ to Win Title, Reptile Battles Back
They’ll talk about the bloody battle of Coffeetown and Talon Junction for years to come. The Coffeetown High School Copperheads took state with a 27-26 win over the Tornadoes with an unnecessary and head-scratching goal-line stand. With their gelatinous one-point lead stapled to a corkboard, Coffeetown fans, coaches and players couldn’t believe their eyes. Talon…
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Jason Witten, high school football coach, one win away from State
Jason Witten has a chance to do something he never did as a member of the Dallas Cowboys: Win a championship in the state of Texas. Witten is now finally retired from the NFL after a bit of a renegade career ending. The all-time-great tight end left the Cowboys in 2018 for a spot in…