It’s time to vote for The State’s 2024 high school football Offensive Player of the Year from Midlands-area teams. Voting ends at noon Monday, Dec. 23, and the winner will be announced with the all-area football team. Below are the nominees. You can vote as many times as you would like.

A fter another exciting season of football here in the state of Arkansas, it is time to see who were the best defensive players this season. These phenomenal players led their tea

This year, we will be leaning on our readership to help pick our players of the year in each sport. Similar to past years with our Male and Female Athletes of the Year, readers will have a voice in who the players of the year are for this year under the new format.

Carson Palmer is taking over as the head football coach at his alma mater as Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Orange County, Calif., made his hiring official on Friday.

Former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater won a Florida high school state championship on Saturday in his first season as a head coach. Coaching his alma mater, Miami Northwestern, Bridgewater's team won 41–0 over previously undefeated Jacksonville Raines in the Class 3A state championship game at Miami's Pitbull Stadium (on the Florida International campus).