Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper's 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.
Voting is open in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest. This week’s nominees are basketball players Zion Harvey (Vicksburg), Carson Gleese (St. Aloysius) ...
For Warren Central’s football team, the day after Thanksgiving was Bleak Friday. Grenada running back McCaleb Taylor carried the ball 34 times for 224 yards ...
OXFORD — Ole Miss might not have turned in the dominating performance it needed to impress the College Football Playoff selection committee, but it still ...
For the past few weeks, Warren Central’s football players and coaches did not dwell on the program’s haunted postseason history. They focused on making their ...
By almost any measure, it’s been a disappointing season for Mississippi State. The Bulldogs are one more loss away from having a winless record in ...
Ryder Jones made it look easy in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest. The Briarfield Academy football player received 1,640 of the 2,325 ...
There’s an old sports saying that defense wins championships. It remains to be seen if it’ll hold true for Warren Central, but the Vikings are ...
For the second time this season, Brandon Gilliam has been named the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s Special Teams Player of the Week. The Alabama State kicker ...
Like everyone else at Warren Central, boys basketball coach Keith Williams is rooting hard for the school’s football team to win a state championship. Part ...
COLLEGE FOOTBALL ON TV Tuesday, Nov. 26 6 p.m. ESPN2 – Toledo at Akron 6 p.m. ESPN+ – Buffalo at Kent State Thursday, Nov. 28 ...
Voting is open in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest. This week’s nominees are Annslee Averett (St. Aloysius basketball); Ryder Jones (Briarfield Academy ...
Week 13 of the Southeastern Conference football season was filled with the usual pageantry and drama the league is known for. No. 7 Alabama and ...
Throughout its 62-year existence, the Red Carpet Bowl has always managed to adapt to the times to survive. Early on, it was a postseason bowl ...
The first day of Thanksgiving break will bring a feast for Warren County’s high school basketball fans. Warren Central will host the River City Challenge, ...
Warren Central’s football program spent 30 years beating its head against the wall in the postseason. It finally smashed through it. The Vikings’ defense forced ...
JACKSON — Briarfield Academy has had to scratch, claw and grind for most of what it’s gotten this football season. The thing it wanted most ...
The River City Rivalry is about to become the Red Carpet Bowl. The Red Carpet Bowl’s organizing committee announced at a meeting Thursday that the ...
Warren Central and South Panola don’t play often, but when they do something big, important and memorable usually happens. There was the 1993 state championship ...
Trey Hall was above them all in the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference this season. The Mississippi Gulf Coast running back and Warren Central ...
JACKSON — Two years without playing for a state championship hardly qualifies as a drought. It’s barely even a “hiatus” or an “absence.” Unless you’re ...
Jack Dickerson left the competition jacked up in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest. The St. Aloysius soccer player received 4,180 of the ...
Vicksburg High is shifting down and Warren Central is staying put in the latest round of reclassification by the Mississippi High School Activities Association. Vicksburg ...
JACKSON — One of the top quarterbacks in the country leads the list of nominees for the best in Mississippi. Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart ...
COLLEGE FOOTBALL ON TV Tuesday, Nov. 19 6 p.m. CBSSN – Akron at Kent State 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 – Western Michigan at Central Michigan 7 ...
Vicksburg High’s football team did not have its best season, but some of its players are being recognized among Mississippi’s best. On Monday, running back ...
After 200 years, Mississippi’s oldest institution of higher learning is changing its name, dropping its storied football program, and undergoing a major reorganization. Mississippi College, ...
Voting is open in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest. This week’s nominees are basketball players Sophie Masterson and Zion Harvey (Vicksburg High); ...
Growing up as a city boy in a non-hunting family, I was well into adulthood before eating venison — a fancy word for deer — ...
As we enter Week 14 of the NFL season, which team sits on top? We break it all…
In a Week 14 NFL schedule that has a lot of compelling contests, the Green Bay Packers versus…
The NHL schedule on Tuesday should provide some fireworks. The contests include the Vancouver Canucks taking on the…
There is a lot to be excited about on Tuesday in SWAC play, including the Alabama State Hornets…
Top-25 teams will hit the court in seven games on Tuesday’s college basketball slate. That includes the Syracuse…
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