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Southern Miss surges past Alcorn with big second half

HATTIESBURG — The 2019 season opener started as well as it could have for Southern Miss. The final result was exactly what it wanted. Everything ... Read more

by newsengin, Sunday, September 1, 2019 1:46 am

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JUCO football roundup: Hinds stuns No. 1 East Mississippi; Coahoma upsets No. 4 Jones

RAYMOND — The 2019 Mississippi junior college football season started with a shocker.

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Ole Miss announces it will sell beer at football, basketball, baseball games

OXFORD — Ole Miss fans will no longer have to smuggle in their own drinks to use in a celebratory beer shower.

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Southern Miss to sell beer, wine at football games this season

HATTIESBURG — Southern Miss is set to become the first Mississippi university to sell alcohol in its football stadium during games.

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St. Al pulls away late to beat rival Cathedral in soccer opener

Ten months after they walked off the field a champion, the St. Aloysius Lady Flashes returned to it as a winner.

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SEC’s 2020 football schedule has some big changes

An old Southeastern Conference rivalry is moving to a new time slot next season.

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Four top prospects leave the M-Braves for Triple-A Gwinnett

PEARL — The Mississippi Braves were reminded of a harsh fact of life in minor league baseball — success comes with a cost.

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Southern Miss begins preseason practice

HATTIESBURG — A small action can put into motion things that can produce much larger or even momentous outcomes.

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Young receivers look to carry on Ole Miss’ Nasty Wide Out tradition

OXFORD — Nasty Wide Outs? At least to start the 2019 season, Ole Miss is just working with a different NWO: New Wide Outs.

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MHSAA moving basketball championship games out of Jackson

The Mississippi High School Activities Association is making major changes to the format of its state basketball tournament.

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Freshman Matt Corral ready to take reins as Ole Miss’ next QB

HOOVER, Ala. — Despite losing 2018’s starting quarterback Jordan Ta’amu to graduation, Ole Miss never really had a quarterback competition or controversy.

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SWAC coaching legend, Brookhaven native Houston Markham, Jr. dies at 75

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Houston Markham, Jr., the football coach who helped turn Vicksburg’s Rosa A. Temple into a state power in the 1960s before becoming ... Read more

by newsengin, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 7:03 pm

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Alcorn picked to win SWAC’s East Division — again

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alcorn State is still the beast in the East.

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Rebels have big plans for Ealy and a talented group of freshmen

HOOVER, Ala. — When Ole Miss released its two-deep football depth chart last week ahead of the opening of preseason camp, there was a notable ... Read more

by newsengin, Tuesday, July 16, 2019 7:36 pm

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Southern Miss puts five on All-Conference USA list

DALLAS — At the unofficial start of the 2019 college football season, Southern Miss is tied for first place in Conference USA in at least ... Read more

by newsengin, Monday, July 15, 2019 8:03 pm

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Delta State hires Gulf Coast’s Batts as baseball head coach

CLEVELAND, Miss. — After five seasons at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Rodney Batts is returning to his alma mater as Delta State University’s head ... Read more

by newsengin, Wednesday, July 3, 2019 6:01 pm

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Mississippi State enthusiastic as 2019-20 basketball team takes shape

July is about as far from college basketball season as a program can get in either direction. That hasn’t stopped Mississippi State’s men’s team from ... Read more

by newsengin, Wednesday, July 3, 2019 6:00 pm

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Nine months after brain surgery, Pontotoc’s Taylor Hughes is in Miss Mississippi Pageant

As a newcomer to a world where experience often equals success, Taylor Hughes might not be one of the favorites to win the Miss Mississippi ... Read more

by newsengin, Thursday, June 20, 2019 4:55 pm

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Mississippi State and Vanderbilt postponed until Wednesday

OMAHA, Neb. — Mississippi State and Vanderbilt will wait an extra day — hopefully — to walk in the Nebraska sun.

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Bulldogs making a habit of late-inning comebacks

It was an unlikely, improbable ninth-inning rally with a couple of bizarre and memorable plays resulting in a win for Mississippi State.

by newsengin, Monday, June 17, 2019 5:53 pm

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