Marc Rowe Camp Player Interviews and Afternoon Session
If you missed yesterday’s post on Marc Rowe’s Adidas Crossroads of the South basketball camp, be sure to check it out here. That post detailed the morning activities from the camp, which was at Ridgeland High School. The camp is no stranger to having some of the biggest high-school prospects …
Marc Rowe’s Basketball Camp Morning Session
There is plenty of high-school basketball talent in the state of Mississippi, but it doesn’t always receive attention. The major focus of Marc Rowe’s Adidas Crossroads of the South Basketball Camp is highlighting those players in our state that teams might overlook. The camp took place this past Saturday, Sept. …
Muffed Punt Changes Saints-Falcons Game
When the New Orleans Saints returned to the Superdome in 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina, a punt block turned around that first game against the Atlanta Falcons. Flash-forward to 10 years later, and a punt has changed the fortunes of those two teams again. During their matchup on Monday, …
Mississippi Bounces Back
Last week might have been the worst week in the history of college football in the state of Mississippi. From Thursday to Saturday night, every four-year college and university lost its game. This past Saturday, Sept. 24, nine of those 10 teams had a chance to get the win that …
Rebels’ and Bulldogs’ Bowl Hopes
Every Football Bowl Subdivision college wants to win its conference, but if the team can’t win the conference, it at least wants to go to a bowl game. Fans, for the most part, like bowl games, and coaches like the extra practice time and exposure. The University of Southern Mississippi …
Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame 2017 Class
The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum announced the 2017 Hall of Fame class today. As usual, the class features some of the best athletes, coaches and people involved with sports in the state of Mississippi. The 2017 class features arguably the greatest sports writer in Mississippi history, Rick …
MNF Returns to New Orleans 10-years to the Day of Gleason’s Punt Block
Monday Night Football returns to the scene of one of its most iconic moments 10 years and a day later with the same week-three matchup. On September 25, 2006, MNF and the New Orleans Saints returned to the Big Easy for the first time since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf …
Saints Look to Avoid Dreaded 0-3 Start
The New Orleans Saints are 0-2 but their two defeats were only by a combined four points. Both losses have come in the final minute of each game. That is something that a team still looking for its first win can build upon. New Orleans is in danger of missing …
Mississippi’s Terrible Football Week
Losing stinks, but this weekend in college football ended up giving the whole state of Mississippi a giant punch to the gut. Every four-year college or university ended up losing this week. If you are keeping score, that means the state went 0 for 10. All three FBS schools lost …
The Most Important Numbers in Sports
Before this weekend’s games kickoff, let’s have some fun with numbers. What are the most important numbers in all of sports? The score. You can’t have a winner or a loser without the score, and every game counts in college football, so the score means nearly everything. Let’s look at …
Nick Fitzgerald Rights MSU Season
Most college football teams don’t want to feel like week two of the season is a must-win situation. That is exactly what it seemed like for Mississippi State University after a season-opening loss to South Alabama. If the team was to have any hope of keeping its bowl streak alive, …
SEC VS Other Power Five Conferences
Doom and gloom surrounded the SEC in week one of the college football season. With high-profile losses and losses to lesser conferences, it wasn’t its normal self But is the SEC really in danger of becoming the weakest of the new Power Five conferences? Now that two weeks have been …
Rebels Heisman and Playoff Hopes
University of Alabama coach Nick Saban doesn’t lose a lot of games. Since finishing with a perfect season in 2009, Saban has lost just 10 games. He has lost just three games over the past two seasons, and two of those have come against the University of Mississippi. With the …
Prescott Solid but Not Spectacular in Debut
The Dallas Cowboys might have given the keys to the car, or offense in this case, to rookie quarterback Dak Prescott, but they wouldn’t let him get out of second gear. In the Cowboys’ 20-19 loss to the New York Giants, the offense looked unexpectedly conservative. Prescott was solid in …
Saints’ Winless Preseason Foreshadows Regular Season Failure
The New Orleans Saints ended the preseason doing something they haven’t done since 2006 and achieved something the team had never done in franchise history: It played quarterback Drew Brees in the final preseason game for a series. Brees hadn’t played in the final preseason game since 2006, which was …
Helping Dak
Dallas Cowboys rookie quarterback Dak Prescott was truly impressive in the preseason, as he racked up 454 passing yards on 39 of 50 passes. He threw for five touchdowns and didn’t throw an interception while rushing for two more scores. When Tony Romo went down, Prescott was named the starter, …
Thursday Night Kickoff Game History
While you wait for the Denver Broncos to face the Carolina Panthers, here is a little history of the NFL’s Thursday night kickoff game It wasn’t until 2002 that the NFL started its new season with the kickoff game on Thursday night. The first two years didn’t feature the past …
Saints, Brees Reach New Deal
Finally! The New Orleans Saints and quarterback Drew Brees have reached a new deal that will keep him with the club for the next two years. The contract is for five years but has an automatic void at two years. Both sides reached the new deal before Brees’ self-imposed week-one …
Rebels Lose Two Players to Knee Injuries for Rest of Season
The fallout from the University of Mississippi’s loss to Florida State University continued on Tuesday, Sept. 6. Hugh Freeze confirmed to ESPN.com that starting cornerback Ken Webster and backup running back Eric Swinney are lost for the rest of the 2016 season with knee injuries. Both injuries hurt units that …
Comebacks Tie Together USM, MSU and UM on Opening Weekend
It was a great first weekend of college football, with memorable games from Thursday to Monday. Hopefully the rest of the season will be a great, as the first week has had surprising turnouts. One interesting thing from this past weekend is that all three FBS teams from this state …