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Get your baseball fix. The Mississippi Braves return to Trustmark Park for a 10-game homestand May 27 to June 5.

Ole Miss baseball will make its 20th appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The Rebels are the No. 2 seed in the Los Angeles regional that includes No. 1 UCLA, No. 3 Maryland and No. 4 Cal-State Bakersfield. Ole Miss plays Maryland Friday, May 29, 6 p.m. on ESPN3.

Mississippians love their baseball. Ole Miss baseball (8,489) ranked No. 2 nationally in average attendance, Mississippi State University (7,897) ranked No. 5 and Southern Miss checked in at No. 18 (2,793).

Tiger nation turns out. Jackson State football finished the 2014 season ranked No. 12 in average attendance (14,276) among NCAA Division I FCS programs. The SWAC was the No. 1 FCS conference in average attendance.

Big hire in high school football: Starkville High School has hired legendary Mississippi coach Ricky Woods to take over its football program. Woods was the architect of the South Panola High School dynasty.

Belhaven University freshman women's tennis player Anne Marie Kimball received the NAIA All-American Honorable Mention, the first All-American selection in program history.

Get ready for the NBA Finals and a likely LeBron James-Stephen Curry showdown. The can't-miss superstar show starts Thursday, June 4, on ABC.

Catch the NCAA Women's College World Series May 28-June 2 on the ESPN networks. Watch five SEC teams in the field for one of the most exciting events in women's sports.

Tennis takes the major stage at Roland Garros in Paris for the French Open from now through June 7 on ESPN2 and NBC. Watch the stars on the backdrop of the famous red-clay courts.

The New Orleans Saints' Organized Training Activities (OTAs) are scheduled for May 26-28, June 2-4 and June 8-11.

Sports Fact of the Week

by Amber Helsel

You can play the first four turns in a game of chess in 318,979,564,000 ways.