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Sports Column: Welcoming back some favorite fall features
Published 4:00 am Sunday, August 31, 2025
Well, friends, we’ve done it. We’ve survived another trip across the summer sports desert and arrived at the shimmering oasis known as football season. Let’s sit a spell, shall we?
Sure, high school sports have already been going for a month. Warren County’s softball and volleyball teams are halfway through their seasons. Most MAIS football teams and a few college teams kicked off last weekend. But Labor Day weekend is when things really crank up as we get a full schedule of high school and college football to gorge on.
What a glorious time of year. Even the weather seems to be cooperating, with temperatures this weekend that feel more like fall than summer.
Of course, this also means that a few standard features make their return to the hallowed pages of The Vicksburg Post.
The first is our football TV listings. Every week we’ll compile and publish the list of televised college and NFL games to help you find your way across the airwaves.
This has been one of our most popular features over the years. Every so often we have to leave it out of the print edition because of space and, without fail, the angry phone calls and emails follow. So come hell or high water we will make every effort to publish them both in print and at vicksburgpost.com. Your voices have been heard.
The second is our long-running “How They Did” feature, which after more than 20 years still has the catchiest name in the business for a rundown of how our local college and pro football players did in their games.
Over the past couple of weeks a full listing — which is accompanying this column — has been compiled of players from high schools in Warren County and surrounding areas like Port Gibson, Tallulah, Rolling Fork and Raymond. And from now through the end of the regular season in November we’ll follow them each and every week to compile their stats and let you know … well, how they did.
As always, we’ve scoured the rosters of nearly 150 college football teams to identify our guys. In the age of the transfer portal and players heading off to far-flung locations, however, we might have missed a couple. If you don’t see your favorite player in the list please email us at sports@vicksburgpost.com and we’ll get them on there.
Our final fall standard feature is Athlete of the Week, which will make its triumphant return this weekend and continue throughout the high school sports year.
Athlete of the Week is a weekly online contest where we select four nominees — one from each Warren County high school, with some from Tallulah, Port Gibson and other places and teams mixed in — to vie for the honor. They’ll be posted every Sunday afternoon at VicksburgPost.com, with links on the usual social media platforms, and then our readers vote for the winner.
The contest runs through midnight Tuesday each week. The winner will be announced Wednesday on VicksburgPost.com, and featured in the Friday print edition.
Since it debuted in 2023, Athlete of the Week has quickly become a very popular feature. We weren’t sure how our readers — who are essential to making it work — would take to it, but y’all have embraced it. More than 226,000 votes were logged in its first three years. Thank you to everyone who has helped make it a success, and thank you in advance for keeping it rolling this year.
We’ve reached the autumn sports oasis. Now let’s drink in the scene and enjoy it all with some comfort food and our favorite features.
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Ernest Bowker is the sports editor of The Vicksburg Post. He can be reached at ernest.bowker@vicksburgpost.com
About Ernest Bowker
Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post’s sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post’s sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper’s 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.
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