SPORTS STORY >> Badgers hope to overcome injuries

By RAY BENTON Leader sports editor The Beebe football team plays in its first-ever 5A-Central game at 7 p.m. Friday when it travels to Little Rock to take on the McClellan Crimson Lions. At the beginning of the season, the Badgers would have been considered a near lock to win the game, but the season has not gone as most […]

SPORTS STORY >> Bears roll into 5A-Central play

By GRAHAM POWELL Leader sportswriter The Sylvan Hills Bears are on a hot streak – opening the 2014 season with a 3-0 record, and at 7 p.m. Friday at Blackwood Field in Sherwood, they’ll look to keep that undefeated streak alive in their first 5A-Central Conference game of the season against Mills University Studies. Sylvan Hills’ offense has been hitting […]

SPORTS STORY >> The second season for Jacksonville

By RAY BENTON  Leader sports editor The second season within a season begins this week for the Jacksonville football team. First-year coach Barry Hickingbotham has said all along that he’s breaking this season up into three parts, and while the first part didn’t go as well as hoped, it’s time to move forward as the Red Devils host J. A. […]

SPORTS STORY >> Annual Week 4 showdown

By GRAHAM POWELL  Leader sportswriter The Cabot Panthers and North Little Rock Charging Wildcats will open 7A/6A-East Conference play against each other at 7 p.m. Friday at Panther Stadium in what’s become one of the best rivalries in the state. In 2012, North Little Rock had, arguably, the most talented team in the state. That Charging Wildcats team advanced all […]