Plans have been finalized for the Drew County Martin Luther King Jr celebration. There will be an MLK Brunch on Saturday, January 14 at 11 am at the VFW Hut. Tickets are $10. The main speaker is Pastor Jerome Pastor, Drew County NAACP Branch 6042 Legal... Read More.
The King Cotton Holiday Classic championship game for the King Bracket will include the hometown Pine Bluff Zebras against Beaumont United at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. Sponsored by Simmons Bank, the prestigious high school basketball tournament will conclude tomorrow with the first tip-off... Read More.
Scores from day two of the King Cotton Holiday Classic will be posted below:
Mills 66, Grissom 60
Sidwell Friends 36, Elkins 30
Silsbee 84, Windermere 78 OT
Day one of the 2022 King Cotton Holiday Basketball tournament is in the books with teams from both White Hall and Pine Bluff securing wins and making it into the second round.
Pine Bluff downed Elkins High School from Georgia while White Hall defeated Grissom... Read More.
The King Cotton Holiday Classic is off to a rousing start at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. Sponsored by Simmons Bank, the prestigious high school basketball tournament will continue tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. and run through Thursday, Dec. 29.
For tournament updates, today’s results, game... Read More.
Day one of the King Cotton Holiday Classic is underway at the Pine Bluff Convention Center and this post will be used to update scores throughout the day.
Windermere 57, Green Forest 46
White Hall 65, Grissom 64
Silsbee 55, Mills 47
Beaumont United 49, Sidwell 20
Jonesboro 50,... Read More.
The weather has wreaked havoc across the country and nowhere has that had more of an effect than on the 2022 King Cotton Holiday Basketball tournament scheduled to begin today at the Pine Bluff Convention Center.
Organizers had arranged for out-of-state teams to fly into... Read More.
Despite several flight delays and cancellations across the country, King Cotton Holiday Classic officials and volunteers worked diligently all day yesterday to secure 14 teams for this year’s tournament. Sponsored by Simmons Bank, the prestigious high school basketball tournament will take place at the... Read More.
The 2022 King Cotton Classic Tournament is set to kick off Tuesday, December 27th, and Sam Glover one of the organizers of the tournament joined Oldies 101.3 to talk about the talent they have playing this year out of Jefferson County.
Glover was asked about... Read More.
The annual King Cotton Holiday Classic basketball tournament is less than two weeks away and on Friday, Ryan Watley, the CEO of Go Forward Pine Bluff, who was responsible for bringing the tournament back was a guest on the Oldies 1013 morning show.
Watley said... Read More.
The 2022 King Cotton Holiday Classic lineup was announced Wednesday in Pine Bluff. This year’s field will feature 16 teams from multiple states including New York, California, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Washington D.C., and Arkansas.
Go Forward Pine Bluff CEO Ryan Watley said this year’s tournament... Read More.