The Mississippi Coast Sharks were a doomed minor league basketball team that played just 16 games out of a planned 56-game schedule at Biloxi’s Mississippi Coast Coliseum before its league, the Global Basketball Association, folded in midseason in December 1992.
Biloxi-based indoor soccer team that played a lone season at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in the summer of 1998. The Beach Kings originated in Columbus, Georgia as the Columbus Comets as a founding franchise in the Eastern Indoor Soccer League in 1997. The club shifted to Biloxi prior to the league’s second season. The EISL went out of business at the end of 1998 taking the Beach Kings with it.
The Mississippi Jets were a chaotic, Biloxi-based minor league basketball team that played parts of two seasons in the Continental Basketball Association in 1987 and 1988. The team’s dysfunction encompassed the front office, headed by the notorious and disruptive former Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien, and several talented but troubled scoring stars on the Jets’ roster. The team moved to Wichita Falls, Texas in 1988.
The Mississippi Fire Dogs were an obscure indoor football outfit that played four seasons in the Gulf Coast city of Biloxi from 1999 through 2002. During the team’s first two seasons, former NFL quarterback John Fourcade served simultaneously as the Fire Dogs’ head coach, general manager and starting quarterback. Fourcade led the Fire Dogs to the Indoor Professional Football League title in 2000. The team went out of business following the 2002 season.
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