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FootballScoop's John Brice reported Friday that Odums has tabbed Alcorn State's co-offensive coordinator Jason Phillips to take over the Spartans' offense in the 2024 season.

Norfolk State backup quarterback Cameron Sapp was sick in urgent care and didn't warm up with the Spartan's before their game against North Carolina Central on Saturday. He ultimately wound up in the game and played lights out during the loss.

The Spartans are ranked in the top 25 of five team stats and five individual stats through five games

Head coach Dawson Odums told the media Tuesday that his team and coaching staff are gaining a feel for who may start at Quarterback for the Spartans. A team scrimmage on Saturday should begin to provide clarity.

Norfolk State head football coach Dawson Odums is looking to improve an offense that averaged a MEAC-worst 17.2 points per game last year, while also improving the discipline of a maturing Spartan defense

“We did a really big haul of the river that day and each had a canoe acting like a bumper truck, with kayaks all round it, picking the litter and we were all teams of less than six.   “So we were still being very Covid aware and I thought we had done well with our full two tubs.   “But then I came back and found an entire canoe of litter. “We plan to do more litter picks this summer.” Back row left to right: Erik Hurinek, Boris Hurinek (trainee leader), James Ramsden (chair &...

Fauquier plans to preserve 551 more acres of farmland File Photo Since 2002, the county has paid $17.5 million to snuff out building lots on 13,525 acres of farmland. It’s a benefit to the farmer. But, it’s a benefit to all of us, because it keeps the county beautiful, instead of wall-to-wall houses and apartment buildings and stuff like that. That’s what people are trying to get away from. — PDR Committee member John Schied By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this em...

Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday in a press release that Fauquier County and two other counties will each receive a grant of $20,000 from the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund Planning Grant program to support local agriculture and forestry initiatives amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.   In addition to the state grant, the PATH Foundation provided $10,000 in matching funds and the Fauquier County government will contribute $5,000.  In Fau...