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March Madness? State, Ole Miss make NCAA field in same season for only second time
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Not since 2002 have both Ole Miss and Mississippi State played in the NCAA Tournament in the same season.
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Like father, like son: SEC Coach of the Year runs in the Kermit Davis family
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They look alike, talk alike – even smile alike – and both won SEC Coach of the Year honors in their first season on the job – one at Mississippi State and the other at Ole Miss.
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Weatherspoon, McCowan are biggest winners in a season filled with Mississippi success
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Collectively, Mississippi college basketball teams had their most successful season in years, as was evident at the C Spire Howell/Gillom Awards luncheon.
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State Tournament packed with passion, as previously undefeated Yazoo County bows out
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The agony of defeat and the thrill of victory are on full display in Jackson this week and Wednesday it was Velma Jackson shaking the underdog label in its quest for another state championship.
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Bigger, stronger, faster: just compare Metcalf, Sweat to 1959 Ole Miss titans
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Thanks in part to science, weight training and strength coaches, today’s football players have speed and strength never imagined 60 years ago. But bones, ligaments and cartilage are as fragile as ever.
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Orley Hood on Bailey Howell: Shows how perceptive great sports writing can be
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Fans and loved ones gathered Thursday at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Museum in honor of Mississippi’s most beloved newspaper writer and to celebrate the new Orley Hood exhibit at the museum.
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Heartbreak at Oxford: No. 7 Vols pull out difficult victory over Rebels
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Ole Miss stood, hand over their hearts, for the national anthem. Then, they stood tall in defeat against the No. 7 Tennessee Vols.
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Ole Miss handled players kneeling during national anthem about as well as possible
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Rebel coach and athletic director fully back players who were kneeling in reaction to a march of Confederate supporters just a few blocks away.
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CUSA’s desperate experiment begins Saturday with UAB playing at Southern Miss
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It has been seven years since Conference USA received multiple berths in the NCAA Tournament. The league is desperately trying to change that.
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RIP: Joe Gibbon, 83, one of state’s greatest two-sport athletes
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Joe Gibbon was good enough in basketball to finish ahead of both Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor in college basketball’s national 1957 scoring race. In baseball, just three year’s later, he helped the Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series.
Some history – and future – at The New Dude
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State opens at The Dude with a sweep and the debut of the Ron Polk Ring of Honor featuring Dudy Noble, Boo Ferriss, Will Clark, Raphael Palmeiro and Jeff Brantley.
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‘New Dude’ highlights opening weekend of DI baseball
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Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Southern Miss all are ranked in the preseason polls to open the 2019 college baseball season. State will debut the rebuilt Dudy Noble Field/Polk Dement Stadium, which features every bell and whistle imaginable.
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They began as collaborators, became friends: Trailblazers Frank Robinson and Jackson’s Janet Marie Smith
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Baseball Hall of Famer Frank Robinson accomplished so much, his contributions to the design of Oriole Park at Camden Yards get lost in the shuffle, says Jackson native Janet Marie Smith, chief designer of the ballpark.
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This was all State(ment): ‘Dogs clobber Vols as no SEC team ever has done before
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Tennessee has won eight national titles and a combined 35 SEC championships. The proud Lady Vols have never been hammered by an SEC team as they were Sunday at Mississippi State.
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There’s no ‘give up’ in State, but Bulldogs must learn how to finish a game
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State has played well, but not good enough to win close games. At 4-6 in SEC play, they are what their record says they are.