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Entries for May, 2016

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SEC and C-USA Baseball Tournaments Update

Rock 'n' roll superstar Meatloaf once sang, “Two out three ain’t bad.” That lyric could be used for college baseball teams from Mississippi in their respective tournaments. As conference baseball tournaments drag toward the weekend, both the University of Mississippi and the University of Southern Mississippi are off today. The ...

E-sports Are Growing

Tomorrow night on the TBS network, the world of e-sports comes into everyone’s living room. There might not be faster-growing sport organizations in the world than competitive video-game leagues. In Asia, the players are already treated like rock stars. In 2014, more than 205 million people watched e-sports online, which ...

Malik Newman Withdraws from 2016 NBA Draft

Malik Newman tested the NBA Draft waters and has decided that he didn’t like his current chances. The current Mississippi State University player and former Callaway High School star has decided to withdraw from the draft. Newman still decided to drop out after working out for the New York Knicks ...

Did Wins Mean More Than Protecting Women at Baylor?

Scandals are nothing new in college sports, especially in football. It wouldn’t be shocking if every school in the country engaged in some sort of rule violation. Schools in the Power Five conferences—ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac 12 and SEC—are going to garner most of the spotlight for those ...

USM to Host C-USA Tournament Starting Wednesday

Conference USA heads to Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg, Miss., for the sixth time to hold the conference’s baseball tournament. The University of Southern Mississippi also hosted in 1996, 2005, 2009, 2014 and 2015. Being back in the friendly confines of home might be just what USM needed after the ...

Mississippi College Bests Belhaven for National Title

Mississippi College set a school record for softball wins today in what might be the coolest way. The Choctaws won their 39th game as they took down Belhaven University 3-0, winning the 2016 National Christian College Athletic Association Softball National Championship. MC was the top seed in the NCCAA Softball ...

Nyquist Looks to Conquer the Second Leg of the Triple Crown

Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist is a huge favorite at the 141st Preakness Stakes. After holding off the field in “the Run for the Roses,” the unbeaten horse was installed as a 3-5 favorite after the post draw yesterday. This year’s Preakness Stakes features 11 horses, just three short of a ...

Biggest Game in Mississippi Brilla FC History is Tonight

The cliché of the biggest or most important game in a team’s history gets tossed around quite a bit in sports circles. But tonight, for the Mississippi Brilla FC, it will be a lock that the biggest match in franchise history is going to be played in Clinton, Miss. A ...

JSU Opens the SWAC Baseball Tournament

Jackson State University gets to play in the opening game of the 2016 SWAC Baseball Tournament. It is going to be an early start for the Tigers, who face off against Texas Southern University at 9 a.m., Wednesday, May 18. JSU earned the No. 2 seed in the East with ...

Five Finalists for C Spire Ferris Trophy Announced

Mississippi State University has dominated on the baseball diamond this season and is now dominating the list of finalists for the 2016 C Spire Ferris Trophy. The Bulldogs placed three players in the final five for the award. The University of Mississippi and Delta State University each placed on player ...

Can Football's Past Save Its Future?

Rugby was a precursor to American football. Soccer is also attached to early football as well, and all three games can trace their roots back to Greek and Roman games. The first football game in America is credited to Rutgers University and Princeton University on November 6, 1869. Rutgers won ...

The Laremy Tunsil Saga Drags for UM

It looks like it will be a long time before the Laremy Tunsil NFL Draft night saga will be over for the University of Mississippi. ESPN writers Mark Schlabach and Nicole Noren reported that the texts that showed up on Tunsil’s Instagram account did in fact happen last year. The ...

Big 12 Expansion Could be Felt Across College Football

The only Power Five conference without 12 or more members and a conference title game is the Big 12; however, it did get permission from the NCAA to hold a title game with just 10 members earlier this year. That would help the conference crown a true champion. But it ...

Softball Conference Tournaments Start Wednesday

The regular season for college softball is over and now conference tournaments for Division I teams kickoff this week around the country. On Wednesday, the SEC, SWAC and Conference USA tournaments all get started with opening-round action. SWAC All the teams that made their respective conference tournaments will be in ...

Big Week for Underclassmen in NBA Draft

Mississippi State University star Malik Newman got some good news recently. He is one of more than 70 players to get an invite to the NBA Combine. Nearly 120 underclassmen threw their hat into the NBA Draft ring. That is a lot of names for a draft that has just ...

Can American Football Become Global?

Here is a nice trivia question you can ask your friends next week: Do you know who was the first 2016 NFL Draft player to sign with his team? If you said Moritz Boehringer, then you would be right. The rest of you might be saying, "Who’s Moritz Boehringer?" Funny ...

Will the 2016 Kentucky Derby Lead to a Second Straight Triple Crown Winner?

American Pharoah finally broke the 37-year streak of no Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. It was the longest drought in Triple Crown history, breaking the previous one of 25 years between Citation winning in 1948 and Secretariat winning in 1973. While the horse captured the attention of the public from ...

Saints' Terron Armstead Gets Extension

Just days after the draft ended, the talk about picks has turned to their potential and their development as players. The New Orleans Saints are rewarding one of their recent draft picks, who has exceeded his early potential and development. In the 2013 NFL Draft, the Saints took offensive tackle ...

NFL Dreams Live on as Undrafted Free Agents

Players’ dreams of taking the field in the NFL live on even if they don’t hear their names called in the NFL Draft. Those athletes still have a chance to make the roster of a professional team, but the road is harder. Each year after the draft, teams scramble to ...

The Saints' Draft Graded, Other Mississippi Players Drafted

Months of preparation and work are over for NFL scouts as the 2016 NFL Draft wrapped up over the weekend. But that doesn’t mean the work ends for the players who are just beginning their professional careers. To be honest, it is fun to make judgments about how well a ...