Former USM Quarterback Austin Davis to Workout for Dallas
With the injury to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, former Mississippi State University star Dak Prescott is taking the reins as the team’s starting quarterback. Sports media sources have already discussed in great detail how well Prescott has played in the preseason. He is putting up numbers that have been …
College Football Viewing Schedule
The first weekend of college-football action begins on Thursday, Sept. 1, with five games kicking off at 6 p.m. and streaming on ESPN3. None of those games are worth rushing home for, unless you’re a big fan of Tulane University, as the Greenwave faces Wake Forest University. Thursday doesn’t really …
Before Kaepernick, There was Abdul-Rauf
News this weekend was like reliving 1996 again. That summer Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf caught the eye of the nation and media when people found out that he would stay in the locker room or stretch on the sideline during the national anthem. Abdul-Rauf, whose birth name is Chris Jackson, converted to …
NCAA Still Looking into Rebels Football Program
It looks like the University of Mississippi’s football program isn’t out of the woods with the NCAA. The university was charged with 28 violations—13 in football and the rest in track and field and women’s basketball. While the school tried to deflect that most of the violations happened under the …
Mississippi Native Headed to Rio for Paralympic Games
While the Olympics mainly banned just the Russian track and field team and a few other sports from the games because of a doping scandal, that wasn’t the case for the Paralympics. The International Paralympic Committee banned the entire Russian team from the 2016 games. No one on the International …
Rebels Have Rare Luxury This Season
The University of Mississippi is one of a few SEC football teams in a unique position going into this season. The Rebels have a proven starter at quarterback while most of the conference is looking for answers in that position. Rebels quarterback Chad Kelly and University of Tennessee quarterback Joshua …
Prescott is Head and Shoulders Ahead of Other Rookie Quarterbacks
Nearly everyone this preseason has gone gaga over Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott’s performance this NFL preseason by. Well, unless you’re Fox Sports radio personality Colin Cowherd. Unless you’re Cowherd or thinks like he does, it is hard not to be impressed with the way Prescott has played in two …
Women Are Why USA Led the Medal Count
The 2016 Olympic games are done, and the USA nearly lapped the field in the medal count. It wasn’t even close for first place in medals, but second and third place was a race. When the Olympics ended with the closing ceremony, the U.S. had won 121 total medals. That …
Prescott Gets Second Chance to Shine
Tony Romo takes back the role of starting quarterback job the Dallas Cowboys tonight, Aug. 19, at 7 p.m. against the Miami Dolphins. This will be the first game action in the preseason for Romo, who is recovering from an injury-plagued 2015 campaign. It seems like a good bet that …
Saints Lose First Round Pick to Broken Leg
The New Orleans Saints are trying to fix a defense that was terrible last season. It was one of the worst in the history of the NFL, but this preseason was a chance to improve the unit. The defense wasn’t completely horrible in the first preseason game against the New …
Rebels Will Face Redshirt Freshman FSU Quarterback
Labor Day just got a little more interesting. It was already going to be an interesting evening with the University of Mississippi facing Florida State University as the last college-football game of new season’s first week. Both teams meet for a neutral-site game in Orlando, Fla., in the 2016 Camping …
USA Dominates the Medal Race Going into Final Week in Rio
The Rio Olympics enters its final week of competition, and as the games begin to wind down, it is good to look at the medal race, and it’s starting to become a rout. While it was close the opening week, the U.S. is beginning to run away from the other …
U.S. Women Win Back-to-Back Gold in Team Gymnastics *Updated All-Around Final*
Breaking: Simone Biles wins the gold medal in the women’s all-around final and teammate Aly Raisman wins the silver medal. The event was held today and will be seen in primetime on NBC as coverage starts at 7 p.m. The members of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team call themselves “The …
Saints Begin Preseason Tonight Against Patriots
The NFL preseason will officially kickoff tonight with six games on the schedule. That is good news for the league after the Hall of Fame game was cancelled on Sunday. Tonight is the first preseason game for the New Orleans Saints after a season last year that ended with a …
Dutch Gymnast Thrown out of Rio for Night of Drinking
Charles Barkley once made headlines for declaring in a Nike ad in 1993 that he wasn’t a role model. Good thing for Sir Charles that he didn’t have to play for the Dutch gymnastics association and the Dutch Olympic Committee. The Netherlands tossed Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder out from …
NFL and Saints Camp News
Unless you live without Internet, by now, you probably know that the first NFL Preseason game between the Indianapolis Colts and Green Bay Packers was cancelled due to poor field conditions. While it does hurt the NFL to have its first game of the year cancelled, it isn’t the end …
No Pelé to Light the Cauldron, NBC Delays Opening Ceremony
The most recognizable Brazilian athletic star, Pelé, won’t be on hand during the opening ceremony tonight at the Rio Olympics. It would be an understatement to say that he is Brazil's biggest and best-known athlete. Even though he hasn’t competed in nearly 40 years, he is the standard all soccer …
Injury Moves Dak Prescott to Cowboys’ No. 2 Quarterback
Everything changed for the Dallas Cowboys at the position of quarterback on a single play. Kellen Moore was scheduled to become the No. 2 quarterback behind Tony Romo. That all changed on Tuesday, Aug. 2, when an offensive lineman rolled up Moore, breaking the quarterback’s fibula or ankle depending on …
Former Rebel Moncrief Pledges to Support Daughter of Former Teammate Who Died
Former Indianapolis Colts running back Zurlon Tipton and current wide receiver Donte Moncrief were more than just teammates. The two players were good friends who spent time off the field bowling and playing pool together. Both players joined the Colts before the 2014 season. Moncrief was drafted in the third …
Clinton’s Akers is Highly Sought After
Monday, Aug. 1, was the first day that public schools could hold practice for the upcoming season, though private schools were able to begin practice last week. That means the top players in the state are preparing for this season after a summer of visits with schools or showing off …
Events That the U.S. Struggles in at the Olympics
No country in the history of the Olympics has been more successful than the United States of America. The U.S. has won 2,404 total medals since the modern games began in 1896. In second place is the dissolved Soviet Union, which only had 1,123 total medals. No other country has …