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Today the mayor's office authorized high school football teams in Orleans Parish to begin preparations for the season.

Clarion Herald sports editor Ron Brocato details the fastest and the strongest track and field prep athletes of all time in the state of Louisiana.

The LHSAA has announced that the prep football season can start Oct. 1, but New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said contact sports will not be allowed while the city remains in Phase 2 of recovery.

Five Hall of Famers and the Best Athletes in the Region will be featured eight times in September.

In a radio interview last week, Tulane director of athletics Troy Dannen said the Green Wave no longer had Conference USA talent, but American Athletic Conference talent.

Under the tutelage of Coach Lou Brownson, Holy Cross had produced a bevy of All-Prep running backs...

LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine announced Aug. 5 that the start of the 2020 prep football season is now scheduled for the second week of October, which would normally be the sixth week of the regular season. 

When the NFL made the announcement, it was met with a collective yawn by many.

On a perfect afternoon during an imperfect time in our lives, the city of Kenner and the president/director of the world champion East Bank Little League held a special event on July 25 at Butch Duhe Playground.

LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine told the House Education Committee July 13 that the association never said it would cancel its sports seasons.

No one knows for sure what’s going to happen to high school sports. We can’t move on to Phase 3 of the recovery if the virus continues to spread to our young people.

The Clarion Herald on July 2 earned third place from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada for general excellence among weekly diocesan Catholic newspapers in the highest circulation category – as well as 14 other national awards.

Nine stadiums will open their gates to American Legion baseball for an eight- to 10-game season over a 19-day period, beginning June 20.

​​​​​​​A colleague and I were headed to a pair of high school football workouts last Friday when I had a recollection of a place that seemed so far away.

I recall a trip I made with former coach Don Wattigny in 2009 following a tour of his beloved high school, Holy Name of Mary.

LSU running-back Clyde Edwards-Helaire was considered the “heart and soul” of the LSU offense during the Tigers’ run to the national championship at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Jan. 13.

The Louisiana High School Athletic Association confirmed Wednesday it has investigated John Curtis, St. Augustine and Holy Cross for allegedly violating the association’s “non-gathering” rules

If you are a Saints fan, you should be really excited about the NFL draft.

St. Augustine has named Nicholas Foster Sr., a former assistant at Edna Karr, as its new head football coach...

St. Augustine’s track and field team appears to be well on the road to recovery, as indicated by the Purple Knights’ second-place finish at the March 23-24 Allstate Sugar Bowl Track and Field meet. Led by double winner Donovan Rolland, who placed first in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and ran a leg of the second-place 400-meter relay team, St. Augustine scored 45 points to finish second in team scoring to Edna Karr (55 points). Once a state power on the oval, St. Aug has been slowly rebuilding its program since its post-Katrina demise in 2005.