Tribute to Fred Geffken
By Dan Cleary Fred Geffken had a big decision to make. A very big one. The then-Sparta police officer and Sparta Police Athletic League basketball coach applied to be the...
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Big State Sports All Morris/Sussex-Area Football Team
Butler and West Morris won sectional titles and went about them the old-fashioned way: By pounding the rock. Game after game, opponents geared up to stop both running games but...
Big State Sports All-Sussex Area Football Team
Scoreboards exploded all over Sussex County this fall – and many of the reasons for that offensive output can be found on Big State Sports’ All-Sussex County football team. Sparta...
Super Football Conference All-Division Team: American Blue
Here are the All-Division players for the SFC-American Blue. Check back with BigStateSports.com throughout the day for more All-Conferences listings as they come in! (This list was not created by Big State...
Hofmann’s All-Quarter Century Top 11-20
Can a team not win a state sectional championship and be the best team in school history? If you are Parsippany Hills, the answer is … yes. The Vikings were...
High Point beats Newton
First place in the SFC-American Blue championship was ripe to be had – and High Point spent the first 5-6 minutes of its showdown with Newton looking like it wanted...
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...
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...