For SouthWest Edgecombe and coach Jonathan Cobb, change is good.

Cobb, who is entering his seventh season as the head coach of the Cougars, ran his team without much variation over the first five years. The first two were largely spent installing his system and learning the intricacies of being a…

Fans of the Southern Nash softball team might not know that Taylor Bailey doesn’t like to bat leadoff.

Bailey does a good job of hiding her jittery feelings, tumbling stomach and shortness of breath, symptoms of being thrust into the spotlight in the form of being the first to face an…

On a back field on the Rocky Mount Academy campus is where the four-man blocking sled can be found. It was positioned against a row of trees, and the football team, preparing for a series of drills, first had to lift and turn the sled around so it could be pushed across the field.

The task of…

Northern Nash has a new boys’ soccer coach.

Tristan Marshall, a Northern Nash graduate, will take over the program in a decision that was announced on Tuesday.

Marshall will aim to bring stability to the position, which has seen a different coach in each of the past three seasons. Longtime…

Rocky Mount Academy hosted a baseball and softball game on an early-spring afternoon.

Athletic director Gayle High was making her way back and forth between the game when she found it was hard to pry herself away from the softball field. The Eagles had a new pitcher who was dealing.

“I think…

Christopher Gardner remembers being focused.

It was the final golf event of his high school career, the NCISAA state tournament, and Gardner expected to play well. But it turned out that everything was backward, and the Rocky Mount Academy golfer was playing his best when his putter came out of the…

The N.C. State offense will look decidedly different this season, and coach Dave Doeren isn’t tipping his hand as to what that means for this team’s play style.

Gone is Ryan Finley, who threw for the sixth-most passing yards in the country last season while guiding the Wolfpack to a 9-4…

N.C. Wesleyan women’s soccer coach Beverly Biancur was 4,000 miles away from home when the group chat she’s in with some of her former players started to heat up.

For some context, Biancur and the Bishops took a training trip to Italy a couple years ago where they played against AS Roma…

There’s still more football to be played for Bikembe Kearney.

Kearney, a 2015 Rocky Mount High graduate and former UNC Pembroke defensive back, recently hooked on with Division II Winston-Salem State where he will play his final year of college eligibility.

Kearney redshirted his freshman…

Daniel Claytor isn’t ready for cubicle life. He would rather be punching out of the trees than into an office job.

And for the 28-year-old Rocky Mount native, this is reality. Claytor is chasing his dream of playing professional golf, and that means playing tournaments with the end goal of…

Sports fans in Rocky Mount won’t have to wait much longer to get that gridiron fix.

Football is coming soon.

The Carolina Stallions, the semi-professional football team in town, will open their first game of the 2019 season on July 13 on the road against the Carolina Punishers in Lumberton.…

Moe Deloach grew up here.

And for Deloach, a 2005 Northern Nash graduate and professional basketball player in Romania, that’s more than enough to keep coming back.

On Saturday, the Rocky Mount native kicked off his ninth annual youth summer basketball camp held at the South Rocky Mount…