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Saints reflect on ugly win over Browns

In week one, it took the Saints and Buccaneers less than 19 minutes to combine for more than 400 yards of total offense. In week two, the Saints and Browns didn’t reach that mark until less than 11 minutes remained…

Saints vs. Browns

In a battle of two NFL teams looking to record their first win of the season, the New Orleans Saints played host to the Cleveland Browns at the Mercedes Benz Superdome Sunday. But this one turned into a real nail-biter…

Football: MGCCC vs. Holmes

This week, the Mississippi Gulf Coast football team entered the national rankings thanks to an impressive 2-0 start. Those wins came against teams that are now both 0-2, leaving tonight’s game against 2-0 Holmes as the program’s first real test…

Drew Brees reflects on first Saints touchdown

Drew Brees has 411 career passing touchdowns with the New Orleans Saints more than any other NFL QB during that stretch dating back to 2006. That year the Saints opened up the season against the Cleveland Browns who were on…

Mississippi State head coach commitment to accuracy

Sixty-five percent: that’s the rate at which Mississippi State Head Coach Joe Moorhead expects his quarterbacks to complete passes and right now the Bulldogs QB’s are falling shy of that mark. Now that benchmark isn’t a necessarily concrete number. Moorhead…

Ole Miss prepares for Tua and the Tide

He has a last name that goes against the way your brain wants to say his name, but for opposing defenses, the toughest thing about Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa isn’t how to pronounce his last name. Through two games, Tua…

Saints not feeling the pressure

If there’s any team in the NFL that knows not to hit the panic button after a season-opening loss, it’s the New Orleans Saints even if they have lost five of those in a row. The Black and Gold will…

New Orleans Saints lose fifth straight season opener

Sunday’s defeat to Tampa Bay marks the fifth consecutive year the Saints have started off the regular season with a loss, but perhaps it’s that familiar territory that’s gonna help the Black and Gold bounce back to NFC South championship…

Saints vs. Buccaneers

When the New Orleans Saints came up with the wrong end of the Minneapolis Miracle in the divisional round of last year’s NFC playoffs, it was their defense that let them down. When the Black and Gold hosted the Tampa…

New Orleans Saints by the numbers

The New Orleans Saints are actually pretty predictable. During the Sean Payton era, the black and gold have gone 7-9 in five out of the seven seasons they’ve taken a week one loss. When they win the first game of…

Football: MGCCC vs. Mississippi Delta

Mississippi Gulf Coast was back in action tonight for its season opener against Mississippi Delta. Last year, Gautier alum DeAndre Torrey finished fourth in the entire nation in rushing before going on to sign with North Texas. Thus paving the…

Quarterback battle at LSU wide open

What started as a four-horse for the LSU quarterback job is now down to two, following the transfers of Lowell Narcisse and Justin McMillan. That leaves St. Stanislaus alum Myles Brennan as one of two scholarship QBs still left in…

MSU QB earns pair of accolades

Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald has earned some pre-season recognition in the form of two watch-lists. Both the Manning Award and the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which go to the nation’s top signal caller, have tabbed the rising senior…

Southern Miss QB Kwadra Griggs suspended indefinitely

The Southern Miss qb depth chart got a little smaller over the weekend as redshirt senior and returning starter Kwadra Griggs was suspended indefinitely. Southern Miss held its media day Saturday afternoon announcing the suspension pending as a resolution of…

Southern Miss fall camp preview: open season for starting QB job

USM opens up fall camp tomorrow without having named a starting quarterback. The front-runners are the incumbent Kwadra Griggs, junior college transfer Jack Abraham, and rising sophomore Marcelo Rodriguez. Like Head Coach Jay Hopson always says, it’s better to have…

Former USM QB transferring to Tulane

On the same day the Southern Miss football team reported for fall camp, former USM quarterback Keon Howard announced his decision to transfer to a school that’s been back on the practice field since Wednesday. From Hattiesburg to New Orleans,…

Ole Miss wide receiver recognized by Walter Camp Award

Ole Miss wide receiver AJ Brown is hoping the media isn’t wrong about him after being tabbed for his third national watch list earlier today. The rising junior was recognized by the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award in…

Southern Miss embracing preseason doubts

Last night, the Southern Miss football team made its 20th annual preseason trip down to the Gulf Coast for what’s called Beach Bash. As we stand today, the Golden Eagles are exactly one week from the first day of fall…

New Orleans Saints Training Camp: Day 2

Cat’s out of the bag on New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara who enters his second NFL training camp as the reigning offensive rookie of the year and number one option on the depth chart for the first four…

Southern Miss Beach Bash

Of the more than one hundred players on the Southern Miss football roster, 13 of them have ties to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Tonight, a good chunk of those 228 boys made the trip home for USM’s 20th annual Beach…