Big State Sports Best Defensive Players to Watch 2025
Chatham was arguably Morris County’s surprise team of 2024. The Cougars will not be doing that to anyone in 2025 – thanks to a defense led by linebackers Hunter Bigham...
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Army Bowl 2.0 Embraces New Grassroots Football World To Connect...
In June of 2022, a room packed with media from Dallas and around the nation squeezed into the press room at the Dallas Cowboys headquarters in Frisco Texas to cover the...
Big State Sports Best Offensive Players to Watch in Morris-Sussex
Early last summer, High Point’s Jerron Martress had a visit with Wildcats coach Bill Percey. The conversation may have gone something like this. Martress: “I’d like to play quarterback.” Percey:...
Gallagher Left a Lasting Impact on the Field and Off
Hundreds of people braved a frightening, torrential downpour to pay final respects to coach Gerry Gallagher at Norman Dean Funeral Home in Denville late last week. Outside, the place was...
2025 Morris Sussex Big Football Games to Watch
When the 2025 high school football season gets underway in Morris-Sussex on Aug. 29, you’d swear that we were in the first night of the playoffs, not the first night...
2024 Morris Sussex Football Year in Review
Before we move on to the 2025 high school football season, let us look back at 2024. It was, quite simply, a season for the ages! Eight area schools won...
Remembering Gerry Gallagher
Gerry Gallagher was disappointed at first. Then he grew angry. Then, he’d had enough. So he packed his belongings and walked out. He ran away from home.It was August, 1963....
20 Questions in Morris and Sussex Football
The curtain will soon begin to rise on the 2025 high school football season in the Morris-Sussex area and we’ve got questions … lots of questions. Here are a few...
Youtz, Gruber Shine in West’s 13-3 Loss to East in...
The West team may have lost to the East in the Robeson Classic, but Mount Olive’s Lincoln Youtz and Sussex Tech’s Brian Gruber made lasting impressions. Both distinguished themselves in...
North Stars’ Big Plays Fall Just Short to South in...
When North defensive line coach Bryan Gallagher demonstrated down-and-distance situations during practices leading up to the Phil Simms North-South game late last week, he used his Morris Knolls cap as...