{"id":426023,"date":"2018-02-05T09:34:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=426023"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:05:30","slug":"listen-gulf-coast-challenge-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/listen-gulf-coast-challenge-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Gulf Coast Challenge Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gulf-Coast-Challenge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-426024\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gulf-Coast-Challenge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gulf-Coast-Challenge.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gulf-Coast-Challenge-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gulf-Coast-Challenge-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gulf-Coast-Challenge-82x82.jpg 82w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Scott McInnerney<br \/>\nWNSP Reporter<\/p>\n<p>MOBILE, AL \u2013 Ladd-Peebles Stadium is set to play host to the 2018 Gulf Coast Challenge between Southern University and Alabama A&amp;M Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile Sports Authority Executive Director Danny Corte joined Sports Drive Friday to talk about the upcoming game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are bringing another college football event to Mobile,\u201d Corte said. \u201cThere was a good contingent from both teams at the press conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Gulf Coast Challenge is being produced by the Mobile Sports Authority, which is responsible for the 5th Quarter Classic last year, in which Tuskegee and Jackson State faced off at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be more of an event than just a football game,\u201d said Corte. \u201cWe\u2019ll have an end of the game, battle of the band. When we renamed with new promoters, we wanted to at least have the area where the game is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two SWAC teams played in Baton Rouge last season, when Southern defeated Alabama A&amp;M 35-14. Southern ended last season with a 7-4 record, while Alabama A&amp;M recently hired head coach Connell Maynor, hoping to improve on a 4-7 season last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey showed up today,\u201d Corte said. \u201cSouthern University and Alabama A&amp;M wanted to come down here. We\u2019re real excited about having both of those teams here. They\u2019re the perfect teams to come down and play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event will be available as early as April 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really hope that this is an event that will be supported,\u201d said Corte. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a fun week of events and the game come September.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Scott McInnerney WNSP Reporter MOBILE, AL \u2013 Ladd-Peebles Stadium is set to play host to the 2018 Gulf Coast Challenge between Southern University and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/listen-gulf-coast-challenge-announced\/\" title=\"LISTEN: Gulf Coast Challenge Announced\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":426024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-news","8":"category-on-the-air","9":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Gulf-Coast-Challenge.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426027,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426023\/revisions\/426027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}