The Springfield News-Leader is proud to announce its 2023 All-Ozarks high school football teams — a collection of the best players from across the southwest Missouri region this past season. In addition to our Dominant Dozen, in which we name the 12 most impactful football players of the season, we’re giving you our choices for who the top players in …

BUCYRUS – Football season has officially wrapped up with state champions crowned and All-Ohioans named. And with the All-Telegraph-Forum teams having been announced, it’s time to award Player of the Year honors. For the first time we’ve decided to do an offensive, defensive and special teams player of the year along with lineman of the year. As expected, it was …

Braden Streeter was recruited by Football Bowl Subdivision programs but opted for Football Championship Subdivision member Delaware. Now the senior quarterback at Christ Presbyterian Academy in Nashville will actually play for an FBS program. Delaware recently announced a 2025 move to FBS as a conference USA member. That’s fine by Streeter and another class of 2024 high school recruit who …

Not every football team in Livingston County had a strong offense in 2023, but every team had at least one high-caliber player. All five teams are represented on the all-county first-team offense. The strengths of certain teams are readily apparent in these selections. Howell was a run-heavy team that has both running backs and two of the five offensive linemen …

Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence appears to be ready to play today against the Browns, just six days after suffering a high ankle sprain. Lawrence wants to go and expects to go, and a final decision will be based on how he looks during pregame warmups, according to multiple reports. That’s surprisingly good news for the Jaguars: When Lawrence went down …

Dec. 9—COLLEGE FOOTBALL is a year-round sport for many fan bases, and now you can include the University of New Hampshire faithful in that group. With the NCAA transfer portal in full swing, there’s more news to report regarding UNH football now than there was during the 2023 season. At least that’s the way it seems. The transfer portal has …

Jayden Daniels, the quarterback for Louisiana State University, was named the winner of the 2023 Heisman Trophy Saturday evening. One of four finalists, Daniels edged out fellow quarterbacks Bo Nix of Oregon and Washington’s Michael Penix Jr., as well as Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. to win the most coveted individual award in college football. Daniels joined LSU …

LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels avoids a Georgia State defender’s tackle earlier this season. Jayden Daniels is the best player in the country. It isn’t even close. With all due respect to Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and Oregon quarterback Bo Nix — who finished second and third on my Heisman ballot — Daniels was a video game joystick disguised as …

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro has been barred by the NFL from being on the sideline Sunday night against the Cowboys after he was ejected in last week’s game for a scuffle with 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw, the team announced Saturday. DiSandro is allowed to travel with the team and perform all other work duties when Philadelphia …

Dec. 9—SEATTLE — If you’re worried that the forces of conference realignment will endanger the Gonzaga-Washington rivalry, don’t bother, this thing hasn’t been a rivalry for years. The Zags had won 14 of the last 15 of these cross-state contretemps. But it felt pretty heated at times in the second half Saturday night in Alaska Airlines Arena as the up-trending …

Dec. 9—SEATTLE — Mark Few made an appearance Dec. 1 at the Pac-12 football championship game between Washington and Oregon in Las Vegas. No, the Gonzaga coach wasn’t actually in attendance watching from one of the 65,000 seats at Allegiant Stadium, but throughout the game a videoboard series displayed the names and photos of prominent alumni from the participating schools. …

Mark Bowman (19) celebrates with teammate Marcus Harris after scoring Mater Dei’s first touchdown against San Mateo Serra in the CIF Open Division state championship bowl game Saturday at Saddleback College. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times) Knowing it was his last high school game, Mater Dei quarterback Elijah Brown used Saturday night’s CIF Open Division state championship bowl game …

TALLAHASSEE — Lakeland was the defending Class 4S state champion but went into the the state semifinals last week as the No. 4 seed among the four teams remaining. However, for the second year in a row, the Dreadnaughts are the last team standing. And for the second time in three weeks, Lakeland’s offense put on a show. Lakeland pilied …

The 2023 season is the final chapter of an era in college football, and it delivered all the on- and off-field drama one could have expected from a sport that keeps us talking 12 months a year despite only having 12 regular-season games in a campaign. We will remember the 2023 season as a true turning point for the sport, …

You wouldn’t know it from his play, but Weddington quarterback Tyler Budge was pushing through an AC joint sprain in Saturday’s NCHSAA 4A state title victory over Hoggard. Budge, who is committed to play at Georgia Southe next fall, completed 17 of 24 passes for 243 yards and two scores as Weddington dominated Hoggard 56-21 in the 4A championship game …