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Whether you’re cheering from the stands or listening from home, we bring you live play-by-play coverage, expert commentary, and sideline stories that capture the heart of high school sports.

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Join us as we celebrate the passion, talent, and community spirit that make high school football unforgettable.

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BROADCAST SCHEDULE

August 22

Goldsboro at Eastern Wayne

August 29

C.B. Aycock at Eastern Wayne

September 5

North Johnston at Rosewood

September 12

C.B. Aycock at Goldsboro

September 19

Goldsboro at Rosewood

September 26

Wilson Hunt at Southern Wayne

October 3

Wallace Rose Hill at Goldsboro

October 10

Rocky Mount at C.B. Aycock

October 17

Princeton at Goldsboro

October 24

Goldsboro at Spring Creek

October 31

Rosewood at Princeton

Games begin at 7 PM with Pre-game at 6:45 PM. Schedule, dates, and times are subject to change.
Games to air on WGBR – 98.3 FM & 1150 AM and streamed live on GoldsboroDailyNews.com

The Indianapolis Colts will be back on the practice field for the third consecutive day on Monday. A few days after that, the Green Bay Packers will arrive for a joint practice on Thursday.

With help from those in attendance at today’s practice, we will help keep you up to date with the latest news and highlights from what takes place.

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Be sure to check back in throughout the practice as this article is updated as reports come in.

Indianapolis Colts‘ remaining 2025 training camp schedule

• August 11th – 4:00 PM start

• August 14th – 3:00 PM start (Joint practice with Packers)

This article originally appeared on Colts Wire: Colts training camp: Highlights, news, updates from practice No. 12

In March, Colorado football agreed to a five-year, $54 million extension with Deion Sanders, elevating him into an exclusive club of college coaches earning at least $10 million per year.

As eye-opening as that raise was, Tom Rhoads, an economics professor at Towson University with a particular emphasis in sports, predicts that the market for coaching salaries will begin to level out in light of the NCAA’s settlement with Congress that now permits schools to use up to $20.5 million to pay their athletes.

“That’s my guess because now the revenue has to be shared with student-athletes,” he said. “So it can’t all go to the coaching staff and especially the head coach. Schools are now starting to hire GMs because they’ve got to attract talent. It’s going to look very similar to the NFL and the NBA and the WNBA where the head coach to some extent is, I don’t want to say a figurehead anymore, but they’re really supposed to not get in the way of these really talented athletes. So I think that’s part of what’s going on.”

Time will tell whether that pans out. For now, what institutions are compensating coaches is an oft-discussed topic, especially when it comes to the University of Maryland. Here is a look at what the school is paying football’s Michael Locksley, men’s basketball’s Buzz Williams and women’s basketball’s Brenda Frese for the 2025-26 academic year and how their salaries compare to those of their Big Ten peers:

Locksley, 55, ranks as the fourth-lowest earner in the conference. That is not terribly surprising, Rhoads said.

“I don’t see anything out of the ordinary with it,” he said. “Within the Big Ten, Maryland is not one of those top teams for football in the Big Ten, and that’s just reality. So I think the salary that he has right now, I think that’s probably pretty standard.”

Despite guiding the Terps to three consecutive bowl wins for the first time in program history, Locksley came under fire after last year’s squad limped to a 4-8 record and a 1-7 mark in the Big Ten. His record in College Park — which includes a six-game stint as interim coach in 2015 — is 33-41 and his mark in the league is 16-40, which is why Robert Sroka, an assistant professor of sport management at Towson, thinks that the returns thus far have been underwhelming despite Locksley’s rank in salary.

“If you’re trying to be the Pittsburgh Pirates of the Big Ten football, where media revenue allows the athletic department to retain a larger profit on lower salary costs and winning is secondary, then Locksley might be a bargain,” he wrote via email. “A true bargain would be found in a Moneyball approach where a coach is able to do much more with less. At this point, I doubt Locksley fits that definition.”

Williams’ high ranking among Big Ten coaches is based on the program’s history of success, which includes its recent run to its first Sweet 16 berth in the NCAA Tournament since 2016. It also comes with certain standards, Rhoads said.

“Recruiting for basketball has always been about trying to get the best high school kids that will be dominant for one or two years, and then you know they’re probably going to go to the NBA,” he said. “It’s different from the NFL. You’re not really trying as much to develop players when you’re a top team like Maryland. You’re just trying to get the best talent all the time out of high school. So I do think that salary is with the expectation that there’s always been a lot of really good high school basketball talent in the Maryland-DC-Virginia area and that the best talent is going to go to Maryland and not go anywhere else.”

Did Maryland overpay for Williams, 52, after the debacle that unfolded when Kevin Willard left the program for Villanova just three days after the Sweet 16 run? Not necessarily, according to Sroka.

“Sure, there was alumni and fan pressure, but I think the Williams salary was more necessary to poach a successful coach from a very well-resourced SEC program,” he wrote. “If Willard had stayed and had another good season, he could’ve easily commanded the same salary from Maryland as Williams did. The Williams salary is reasonably reflective of where Maryland is in the pecking order of Big Ten men’s basketball and where Williams is in the realm of men’s basketball coaches.”

With an NCAA championship in 2006, three Final Four appearances and 14 league titles in the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten, Frese, 55, is the most successful of Maryland’s “big three” coaches. But Julie Sommer, a Seattle-based attorney and former All-American swimmer at the University of Texas who has advocated for student-athlete rights, noted that Frese isn’t compensated as well as Locksley and Williams are.

“The true correlation isn’t simply with success but with the market value of the sport itself,” she wrote via email. “These salary figures reflect the established financial hierarchy of college athletics, where football and men’s basketball still command a vastly different — and higher — market rate than women’s basketball, regardless of the relative success and historical achievements of the coaches within their respective programs, and regardless of the growth of women’s basketball, both in popularity and viewership.”

Since the program’s last Final Four berth in 2015, the Terps have failed to advance to the Sweet 16 four times and have not brought home a Big Ten crown since 2021. Sroka said recent results might not justify Frese’s spot at the top.

“Frese is being paid the salary of a consistent Final Four coach for pre-COVID Big Ten conference results,” he wrote. “For instance, in recent years Maryland’s performance hasn’t been that much better than Michigan’s Kim Barnes Arico, who makes less than half of Frese’s salary. Maryland might be wondering why they’re paying an elite price for second-tier results.”

Unlike Rhoads, Sommer thinks the bar for coaching salaries at Maryland has been set and will be difficult to reduce. She said that the desire to remain competitive in the Big Ten will force the school to pursue — and sometimes retain — top-dollar coaches, which has a trickle-down effect.

“This means coaching salaries and now likely payments to athletes will be substantially footed by other students and taxpayers,” she wrote. “Like many universities around the country, Maryland is facing budget challenges due to reduced funding impacting the entire University system. This will result in furloughs, salary reductions for employees, and personnel cuts. When you have this further commercialization of athletics, de-emphasis of the athlete’s educational experience, substantial support coming from ever-escalating student fees and taxpayers, combined with system-wide budget shortfalls, you have to question not just the sustainability of it, but whether the system that has lost sight of its educational purpose.”

Have a news tip? Contact Edward Lee at eklee@baltsun.com, 410-332-6200 and x.com/EdwardLeeSun.

Bluffton, Indiana’s EJ Tackett hoists the champion’s trophy Thursday in 2023,  winner of the annual Kremer Roofing Classic at Community Lanes. (Press Pros Feature Photos)

The forecast is hot and humid, and perfect for the bowling fan who longs to watch the world’s best come to Minster, Coldwater, and Delphos this month and compete…in air-conditioned comfort.

There’s no doubt about it…the annual Kremer Roofing Classic, in Minster, followed by the Bowlerstore.com Classic, presented by Moxy’s Xtra Pair, in Coldwater, are two of my best weekends on the sports calendar each year.

The Professional Bowlers Association regional tour hits west-central Ohio these next two weeks, starting this weekend with the 4th Annual Kremer Roofing Classic, hosted by Doug and Lori Davidson’s Community Lanes, in Minster.

And I’ve said this repeatedly since we first started covering the PBA bowlers a decade ago…there are no more gracious, personable, and appreciative professionals in the sports world than those on the PBA Tour.

“There’s a little blue collar about most of us,”  laughs world’s #1, E.J. Tackett, from nearby Bluffton, Indiana.  “And people who bowl appreciate that we’re out there working for it just like they do.”

But on top of that…they’re just good guys.  The kind you like to meet – say hello to.

Bowlerstore.com, of Versailles, is the presenting sponsor of high school bowling on Press Pros Magazine.com.

There are actually three events with this year’s swing through the area, beginning with the Kremer Classic this week.  Competition at Community Lanes begins on Friday, the 15th, and concludes on Sunday, the 17th.

At the conclusion of the Kremer Classic, Dedphos hosts the Dave and Diane Kill Central Open at the Delphos Bowling and Recreation Center, beginning Tuesday, August 19, and concluding on Thursday, August 21st.

The 17th annual Coldwater tournament, hosted by the Hartings family at Plamor Lanes, begins on Friday, the 22nd, and concludes on Sunday, the 24th.

Admission is free, and the temperature will be a cool 74 degrees, give or take.

Last year’s Kremer Classic was won by Ryan Leiderbach, marking his third consecutive regional title in a row.

Last year’s Bowlerstore.com Classic was won by Zeke Bayt (from Westerville, Oh) in a surprise showdown with Tackett and A.J. Johnson.

If you’re surprised by how Coldwater, Minster, and Delphos can attract the same professionals you want on the Fox network on Sundays, don’t be.

Pla-Mor lanes proudly sponsors coverage of bowling on Press Pros Magazine.com

“I enjoy coming here because the people treat us so well,”  says long-time professional DJ Archer, from Louisville.

And Troy’s Kyle Bigelow, while he doesn’t bowl regularly on tour, never misses a Coldwater tournament…if he can help it.

“Love coming here,”  says the proprietor of Troy Bowl, on Dorset Road.  “It’s like family, the competition in this house is tough, and I enjoy the challenge.”

Rising star, Michael Davidson, from Versailles, will also be competing after breaking a 12-game PBA scoring record (257.17 avg) earlier in the year.

EJ Tackett, by the way, is the reigning two-time PBA Bowler of The Year, leading the membership in points, earnings, and average.

Community Lanes sponsors your favorite area sports on Press Pros. We’re so much more than a bowling center. Visit us soon.

The Indiana high school football season kicks off Aug. 22. No one gets you ready for the season like IndyStar Insider Kyle Neddenriep. Get caught up on his 2025 preview coverage — with plenty more still to come, including USA TODAY Network’s state rankings, Central Indiana power rankings, ALL-USA Central Indiana Super Team, more Coaches Confidential and class-by-class predictions/breakdowns.

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Central Indiana class-by-class predictions, top teams

• Class 6A (still to come)
• Class 5A
• Class 4A
• Class 3A (still to come)
• Class 2A (still to come)
• Class A (still to come)

Check out early 2025 Indiana Mr. Football contenders

Who are top contenders for 2025 Mr. Football race? A preseason look at the potential field.

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Top Central Indiana high school football QBs for 2025

Any high school football team with high aspirations for the upcoming season better have a quarterback to lead the way. With the season just nine Fridays away, we take a look at 20 Central Indiana QBs to watch going into the 2025 season.

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Top Central Indiana high school football RBs for 2025

To help get you prepared for the 2025 IHSAA football, we take a look at 25 running backs to watch from Central Indiana:

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Top Central Indiana high school football WRs for 2025

The highlight crew is here. No group commands the spotlight — and the highlights on Friday night — more than the wide receivers. Here are 20 Central Indiana receivers to watch this season.

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Top Central Indiana high school football OL for 2025

Do not overlook these guys. They might not put up stats, but they are the reason — primarily — the skill-position players rack up the yards and touchdowns. Here are 25 Central Indiana offensive linemen to watch.

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Top Central Indiana high school football DL for 2025

A dominant defensive lineman can make a defense look a whole lot better. Here are 20 Central Indiana defensive linemen who will have an impact for the 2025 high school football season.

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Top Central Indiana high school football LBs for 2025

From hard-hitting middle LBs to edge rushers who play linebacker to outside LBs who sometimes roam the secondary, this group covers a lot of ground.

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Top Central Indiana high school football DBs for 2025

As high school offenses become more diverse and pass heavy, the jobs of the defensive backs are more difficult than ever. To win on Friday nights, you have to be able to stop the pass. Here are 25 Central Indiana defensive backs who are up to the task.

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Central Indiana high school football sleeper teams

We take a look today at eight potential sleeper teams for the 2025 season from Central Indiana. To keep things consistent, we considered only teams that finished last season with a .500 record or below.

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Coaches Confidential

• Question 1: What are your thoughts on the new IHSAA first-time transfer rule? Good or bad for high school football/sports? Click here to read answers.
• Question 2: How prevalent is recruiting/undue influence in high school football? Will it become more rampant with new transfer rule? POSTING AUG. 12
• More to come.

Top Week 1 IHSAA football games in Central Indiana

If you have football on the brain — or will get there soon — you might want to check this out. A little dip of the toe into the water as we count down the top 10 Central Indiana games for Week 1 of the 2025 high school football season.

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Can Carmel win right away? Kevin Wright eager to find out in return

Kevin Wright won a state title in his first tenure at Carmel. He takes over the program 11 years later that has struggled in back-to-back seasons.

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Central Indiana high school football coaching chances: New faces in new places

While IHSAA’s new transfer rule means there’s more player movement than ever before, plenty of Central Indiana’s coaches have been on the move, too.

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8 questions ahead of 2025 IHSAA football season

Who will contend in 6A? Who wins Mr. Football? How will changes to 5A shake out? With the IHSAA football season right around the corner, here are some more questions to answer.

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Call Star reporter Kyle Neddenriep at (317) 444-6649. Get IndyStar’s high school coverage sent directly to your inbox with the High School Sports newsletter.