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JSU will begin 2017 with ‘Murderers Row’
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Tony Hughes wants to return JSU to the top of the SWAC, but the first step will be difficult against the Tigers’ brutal early schedule.
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The sound and the fury of sports as only Faulkner could convey
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Who needs the winner or the score, when you’ve got a Nobel Prize winner writing about sports?
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Sports writing is about more than the score; ask Mississippi’s winning authors
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Some of our greatest fiction and non-fiction authors first wrote about sports.
Sports
Thornberry makes hole-in-one decision by staying at Ole Miss
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Golf’s pre-eminent college player could have turned pro this week
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Blows to the head may have defeated NFL great Gene Hickerson decades ago; how do we protect today’s players from CTE?
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Education about CTE and its causes may reduce progression of the debilitating brain disease
Glen Campbell stole the show on the stage and the golf course
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The singer gave two memorable performances in Mississippi
What makes Marcus Dupree most proud? You might be surprised
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High school football phenom says what’s in the record books is not what he’s most proud of
CTE victim Willie Daniel’s friends, doctors want to save football and its players
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MSU and NFL player made his living colliding with big, strong, hard, fast people. He paid an enormous price.
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Another victim of deadly CTE: Doug Cunningham
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Doug Cunningham was an elusive open field runner, but he didn’t elude the big hits nearly often enough.
Health
Madison man was slipping away, but his angel on earth pulled him back
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Jerry Fite appeared to be dying until Lori Miller stopped to help
Ole Miss great Bobby Crespino among NFL players with degenerative brain disease
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Crespino’s brain was one of those donated for a sobering Boston University study
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Happy birthday, Sweetness, best I ever saw
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“Pound for pound, when you take into account all phases of the game, he was the best.”
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Teammates back Matt Luke: the right man to tackle the toughest job at Ole Miss
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“A huge reason Matt is perfect for Ole Miss right now is that he’s been through this.” — Walker Jones
As the Hugh Freeze era shatters at Ole Miss, no winners to be found
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The Rebels had steeled themselves against an outside threat from the NCAA; collapse from within the program wasn’t in the playbook
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Rebels’ Reed faces tough medical fight
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One of the toughest Rebel roundballers ever is in the fight of his life with cancer in his spine