MVSU Picked Second, JSU Picked Fourth in Preseason Women’s Soccer
While college football is just around the corner, let’s not forget that women’s soccer will begin this fall. The SWAC head coaches and sports information directors made their preseason predictions for the upcoming soccer season. The team to beat and big winner of the awards is affiliate member Howard University, ...
Lions Reward Former MSU Corner Slay with a Contract Extension
Former Itawamba Community College and Mississippi State University cornerback Darius Slay believed he was a top-seven corner in the NFL. The Detroit Lions brass must have agreed with him after signing him to a new four-year extension. Detroit needed to lock up Slay, who is just 25 years old, to ...
After New Year’s Eve Ratings Disaster, CFP Semifinals are Moving
The idea of building a new tradition on New Year’s Eve happened just one year before college football playoff Executive Director Bill Hancock changed course. Now, the schedule has been changed in the four years that the semifinals were to be played on Dec. 31. Hancock believed that the semifinals ...
Deanna Favre to Present Brett Favre for Hall of Fame
In the history of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, only once before now has a wife presented a husband entering the shrine. Kim Singletary presented her husband, Chicago Bear great linebacker Mike Singletary, in 1998. That will change on Saturday, Aug. 6, when Deanna Favre becomes the second woman ...
Jaguars Honor Former JSU Star Jimmy Smith
The Jacksonville Jaguars are adding former star wide receiver Jimmy Smith as the sixth member of its ring of honor, Pride of the Jaguars. The five other honorees in Pride of the Jaguars are former owners Wayne and Delores Weaver, the franchise's first-draft-pick offensive tackle Tony Boselli, running back Fred ...
River City League Different Opportunity for Each Player
An unrelenting rain beat down on the city of Vicksburg on Friday night, July 22. That rain didn’t seem to keep anyone away from the action at the River City Summer Basketball League, or River City League for short. The stands were mostly filled with friends, family and people from ...
2017 NBA All-Star Game Moved From North Carolina
Since the passing of House Bill 2 in North Carolina, several boycotts and event cancellations have hit the state. The latest blow was a major sporting-event cancellation on Thursday, July 21, as the NBA decided to move its 2017 All-Star Game away from Charlotte, N.C. According to multiple reports, New ...
Media Picks USM to Finish First in C-USA West
Media that covers Conference USA has made their preseason football predictions for order of finish in both the East Division and West Division. The predictions will keep expectations high on new University of Southern Mississippi coach Jay Hopson. The Golden Eagles made one of the best turnarounds in college football, ...
53 Former Wrestlers Sue the WWE Over Concussions
The NFL is trying to settle a concussion lawsuit against it. A concussion lawsuit against the NHL is currently pending. Now, 53 former wrestlers are suing the WWE over concussions. It really only seemed to be a matter of time before the biggest wrestling organization in America ended up in ...
NFL and Teams Are Using Technology to Improve the Game
Technology has the power to make nearly everything in our lives better. It also could have the power to make our sports better or at least provide in-game analytics that could change them for the better. In two recent articles, the Toronto Star reported on ways in which the NFL ...
What the WWE Must Do with Tuesday’s Draft
Professional wrestling hit one of its high points with the Monday Night Wars between WWE, then known as WWF, and WCW. The battle between the two wrestling federations began in the mid-1990s and ended in 2001, when WWE bought WCW. This was one of the golden eras in pro wrestling ...
SEC Media Makes Predictions for 2016 Season
When you’re the defending national champions, everyone expects you to defend your title. Even the conference media. As SEC Football Media Days came to an end today, the media predicted the University of Alabama to not only win the SEC West but reign as conference champions once again. Last year’s ...
The Slowest Sports Day of the Year
Wednesday after the MLB All-Star game is without a doubt the slowest sports day of the year. Nearly every professional and college sports event takes the day off the day after the midsummer classic. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any sports on TV today. But it does mean you will ...
Saints Celebrate 50 Seasons of Football
Before the start of this NFL season, the New Orleans Saints are celebrating 50 seasons of football. The team even has a website, saints50.com, for fans to explore the last 50 years of the franchise. One of the best parts of the website is the timeline of past seasons. Each ...
Plenty of Questions For Rebels and Bulldogs at Media Days
Now that the four-day marathon that is SEC Football Media Days is underway, there are plenty of questions for every team. The media will get its chance at players and head coaches from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi this week. MSU players and head coach Dan Mullen ...
More Athletes With Ties to Mississippi Are on to Rio
As the USA Track and Field Olympic Trials continue, more athletes with ties to our state have made the team. Earlier this week, the Jackson Free Press posted a story on athletes who made the team, as the track and field trials started last week. Four more athletes either from ...
College Football Media Days Begin Next Week
One way to tell that college football is just around the corner is the start of college-football media days. Nearly every conference holds media days where coaches and players answer questions about the upcoming season. The biggest media days might be the weeklong event that the Southeastern Conference holds at ...
East Mississippi Community College Subject of New Netflix Doc
A good few great college football and NFL players have made a stop in Mississippi over the years to play in our junior and community-college system. Throughout the years, several of those teams have won national championships. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College was the first to win a national title ...
Reese, Bowie Heading to Rio as Thompson, Engels Fall Short
Defending women’s long jump gold medalist Brittney Reese looks ready for Rio. The Gulfport High School star broke records as she made the U.S. track and field team. Reese jumped 7.31 meters, or 23 feet, and 11 3/4 inches, which is just nine inches short of breaking the world record. ...
Saints Email Fail, Rebel in Supplemental Draft
Sending an email or text to an unintended recipient is something that has either happened to you or something that you fear. An email fail from the New Orleans Saints cost them a chance to add a player late last week. When the Cleveland Browns cut quarterback Connor Shaw, his ...
Newman to Kansas, JSU Tennis Placed on Probation
After a less-than-stellar freshman season at Mississippi State University, guard Malik Newman decided to test the NBA waters. Newman chose to return to school once it was certain that he wouldn’t get drafted late in the first round or early in the second. Signs showed that Newman might not have ...