Pressure Defense Leads Madison Past Becton
Madison linebacker Liam Melvin rang up 2 ½ sacks against Becton. Dodgers DB A.J. Eldridge had two INTs, including one incredible, one-handed pick. Those were just two of the eye-opening...
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Cripe Leads Madison to a Stunner over Bernards
Stay? Or quit? Two summers ago, that was the choice that confronted Madison’s backup quarterback George Cripe. There would be no in-between. He chose to stay with the team and...
Knolls 2005 Team the Best in the Area from 2000-2025
Brigham Farrand had the ball, cut through the line and … wait a second, Farrand didn’t have the ball. Tommy Hennessy did, and he spun in the other direction and...
Who are the Best Football Teams of this Century?
Who is better, Morris Knolls’ 2005 team or West Morris’ 2021? Delbarton … 2001 … or 2020? Mountain Lakes 2008 … Madison 2011 … or Madison 2012? Those are great...
Who are the 21st Century’s Best of the Best? (Morris-Sussex...
Who were the best offensive football players in Morris and Sussex County over the past quarter century? If you want to know the answer, you have come to the right...
Joe Hofmann’s Week 0 Football Notes
Questions … so many questions. Which teams will win their divisions in the Morris-Sussex area in 2025? We don’t know yet, but we began gathering clues last week, when games...
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:...
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...
2025 NJIIGL All-Division Teams & Postseason Awards
Note: Teams are put together and obtained from coaches, NOT created by Big State Sports. Stars & Stripes Red First Team: Second Team: Honorable Mention: All-Academic: Stars & Stripes Red...
Dynamic Players Headline The Paul Robeson East-West All-Star Classic
West squad practices for the Robeson East-West All-Star Football Classic have barely begun and there is already one player who qualifies as most versatile. That would be Sussex Tech’s Brian...