Jeremy Stanford’s tenure as head football coach at Woodland is over, and now the school will be in a mad dash to find a new coach for the rapidly approaching 2019 season. Read more

Handley has added a former head football coach to its staff, and the school made a head coaching change in another sport as a result. Read more

Wadley’s mayor lives in a house once owned by his great grandfather. Read more

Handley guard Corey Bell, a rising senior who was the player of the year in the county last season, has earned an invitation to the state’s first Elite 100 Basketball Showcase, hosted by the AHSAA and conducted by the AHSADCA. Read more

Two Saturday’s ago a sleepy little dirt circle racetrack in the northeast corner of Randolph County came to life after lying dormant for the better part of two years. Read more

Former Handley and Southern Union baseball standout Chase Hall will make the trip to Omaha this week as a member of the Auburn Tigers team that will participate in the College World Series. Read more

Maybe the old adage is true and the defenses were ahead of the offenses. Maybe the coaches calling the offensive plays didn’t want to get too elaborate with their selections. Or maybe the three teams on the field Friday in Wedowee were just so evenly matched that a stalemate was inevitable. Read more

As the Handley Tigers took the field for Friday’s spring jamboree at Notasulga, the team showed an evident difference in one very important aspect of high school football – size. Read more

f defense and punts are your favorite features of football, then Saturday’s spring scrimmage between Stanhope Elmore and defending 5A state champions Clay Central was a dream come true. Read more

The last great image we have of high school football is of Central of Clay County walking off the field at Jordan-Hare Stadium having conquered Vigor in a thrilling 43-42 state championship win, giving first-year head coach Danny Horn a storybook ending in his return to Clay County. Read more

RCHS made a statement with its bats in game one, got a shutdown pitching performance in game two, and then bowed out of the East Central regional when both aspects of its game failed to make an impact in game three. Read more

Eight teams go in, only two come out. One team will go undefeated. One team will only lose once. The other six will go home. Read more

Losing the first game of the area tournament is never a good omen. Especially when that loss is a 1-0 decision in which the only run scored on a passed ball in the bottom of the seventh inning. Read more

Two gold medals came home to Randolph County after the high school state track and field competitions in Cullman and Gulf Shores last week, while Handley had the best team performances of the weekend. Read more

The big question for Handley entering its second-round playoff series against Trinity Friday was how they would perform offensively against the vaunted Trinity pitching, well, trinity of Trace Bright, Dalton Lovrich and Will Aaron. Read more

Handley entered its area tournament Tuesday on a four-game winning streak thanks to an 8-6 win over Woodland in the regular season finale for both teams Friday. Read more

Wadley held a lead in both games of its first-round playoff series against South Lamar Friday, but the Bulldogs ultimately lost both games to see their season come to a close. Read more

In one of the least dramatic first-round playoff series in recent memory Handley needed a total of seven innings to dispatch Greensboro by scores of 18-0 and 14-0 Monday. The first game went the required five innings, but the coaches agreed to end the second game after just two innings as Gr… Read more

Area tournament play begins next Tuesday for all four county softball teams. RCHS will be the lone county school to host its area tournament as the other three teams will have to travel. Here are the schedules, locations and first-round matchups for all four tournaments Read more

Prior to the 2018 season, when Dylan Brooks was about to enter his sophomore season for the Handley Tigers, his head coach offered a lofty appraisal of the potential of his wiry, athletic defensive end. Read more

The baseball playoffs are upon us, and Handley, Wadley and RCHS will play first-round series starting this Thursday. Read more

There are players in the county who can score, and there are players who can rebound. There are players who can handle the ball, or pass it, or shoot the three, or defend, and there are some who can do more than one of those things. Read more

The Handley Tigers stretched their winning streak to five in a row last week and Monday of this week thanks to wins over Saks, Munford and Ranburne. Read more

Handley built a 12-3 lead over the first six innings before RCHS put up a 5 spot on the seventh to put a scare into the home-standing Lady Tigers, but Handley eventually held on for the 12-8 win Monday in Roanoke. Read more