Joe Hofmann Wrestling Notes + Boys Wrestling Top 20
Last year, Whippany Park’s Sean Dill was a mere freshman in a stacked upper weight class. It was a little too much to ask to get out of District 12....
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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...
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: United White
(Big State Sports did not create this list.) Here are the selections for the SFC-White Division all-division teams. OFFENSE FIRST TEAM QB-Tyler Bell (St. Peter’s) Skill-Matthew Tafuri (Delbarton) Skill-Mason James...
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 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...
Who are the 21st Century’s Best of the Best? (Morris-Sussex...
One Saturday afternoon about 20 years ago, Pope John D-Lineman Devin Perez blew up many, many plays against Jefferson. While working the sidelines for that game, I took notes and...
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...