Sports Archive

Darrien McDowell is the highest drafted player in University of West Florida baseball history.


McDowell was taken 180th overall, going in the six round to the San Diego Padres on Monday.

A handful of area athletes are featured in the new EA Sports College Football video game.

Two former Central baseball players will compete at the next level in the spring of 2025.


Justin Smarr and Dylen Houk both signed with colleges earlier this spring.

The Panhandle Elite 12U baseball team made quite an impression at the Cal Ripken Jr. Heartland tournament in Kentucky last month.


The squad out of Pace won all seven of its games in convincing fashion, dominating the opposition to bring home a championship trophy.

Tylon Lee has made his decision, announcing Friday he is committing to UCF.

A best two-out-of-three format for high school playoff baseball may soon be reality.


The Florida High School Athletic Association is expected to vote on it in September.

Pace’s boys basketball team doesn’t have a lot of experience back from last season. So head coach Huston Ramsay has spent the summer working to mesh that talent together.

Big news broke in the flag football world as Conference Carolinas will add the sport starting in the 2025-26 season.


The conference will be the first at the NCAA Division I or II level to have flag football. Division III Atlantic East already has flag football.

If there is one thing that can be said about Central’s girls basketball team looking back on summer workouts it’s that head coach Wes Mathews is happy with what he’s seen from his players from the standpoint of the intangibles.

Season tickets are now on sale for University of West Florida football games.

The Argos have six home games on the schedule this year as they begin their eighth season of football.