by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 26, 2023 | News, Previews
“The Karate Kid” is turning 40 years old, and it’s fascinating to observe how Americans had Martial Arts so “bass-ackwards” as they say, so plainly and demonstrably wrong on dual counts back in the day. We thought the dumbest thing about...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 19, 2023 | News, Predictions
Crystal City Hornets at Herculaneum Blackcats Week 9 being the time when Mississippi Magazine begins to close down its regular-season coverage and starts looking at the District playoffs more closely, most of our predictions for this Friday night will be of the...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 18, 2023 | News, Rankings
T-1 – Seckman Jaguars This week’s tied rankings on top of the Power Poll go against every traditional notion of covering the sport known as American Football. Seckman has a larger program than Hillsboro, in fact SHS enrollment numbers are so much higher...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 15, 2023 | News, Recaps
Cardinal Ritter 34, Hillsboro 21 The Gridiron Geek has groaned about Mississippi Conference clubs getting what’s known as a Pyrrhic Victory, in which a team wins in the short-term but loses out in other long-term ways. It happened to Festus High in 2020 when...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 13, 2023 | News, Predictions
Hillsboro Hawks at Cardinal Ritter Lions Is Hillsboro’s new unbeaten streak about to come to a crashing halt against the worst of MSHSAA’s division killers? Or will Hillsboro and Cardinal Ritter produce another tight, tumultuous tilt such as the scrum...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 12, 2023 | News, Rankings
The Mississippi Area’s season ending All-Conference Teams are designed to give small-school padawans a chance at the limelight. No reporter in her right mind would favor the best quarterback in Class 1 over the best signal-caller in Class 6, so the I-55...
