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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…

Players report to Saints training camp

At 39 years of age, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is quietly coming off one of the best years of his entire career. While he continues to do his best impersonation of fine wine, the rest of the team…

Southern Miss Beach Bash set for Thursday

Fall camp is right around the corner in the college ranks and the Golden Eagles are soaking up the last of their summer days right here on the Gulf Coast. Tomorrow, the USM Alumni Association will be hosting its 20th…

New Orleans Saints training camp preview

Like every team around the league, the New Orleans Saints have plenty of questions to answer as they head into training camp, but the Black and Gold get the added bonus of wiping the slate clean following January’s Minneapolis Miracle.…

St. Martin offensive lineman draws Arkansas offer

In the high school ranks, St. Martin offensive lineman Brandon Cunningham is still drawing interest from division I powerhouses. Today, the Mississippi State commit took to Twitter to announce his most recent SEC offer coming from the Arkansas Razorbacks. That…

MGCCC alum receiving rave reviews from Nick Saban

Following Alabama’s national championship win over Georgia back in January, Nick Saban said he spoke to seven draft-eligible juniors about entering the NFL draft. Mississippi Gulf Coast alum Isaiah Buggs was one of those seven, but only one of two…

Ole Miss junior up for nation’s top wide receiver award

Last season, Ole Miss wide receiver AJ Brown earned the distinction as the state’s best player by winning the Conerly Trophy. As for this year, he’s already been tabbed as the nation’s top wideout in at least one pre-season publication…

Southern Miss QB battle open for business

For the better part of Jay Hopson’s tenure at Southern miss, there’s never really been a surefire that’s-the-guy starting quarterback. At the same time, certain situations haven’t really allowed for him to have one. For example, in his first year,…

C-USA Media Days: Southern Miss Golden Eagles

As Jay Hopson enters his third season as head coach at Southern Miss there’s a developing sense of continuity for the upcoming campaign, but for the second year in a row Coach Hop is also dealing with a pre-season quarterback…

SEC Media Days: Mississippi State Bulldogs

After nine years with the same head coach getting used to a new one takes some time, but first-year head man Joe Moorhead doesn’t have any to waste as the next in line at Mississippi State. Today, the former Penn…

Southern Miss picked fourth in C-USA West

With the recent news of Southern Miss quarterback Keon Howard’s decision to transfer, it’s hard to project the Golden Eagles in 2018. Today, that was represented in the league’s pre-season poll. USM was picked to finish fourth in the Conference…

Mississippi State QB tabbed for Davey O’Brien watch list

Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald is the recipient of some more high praise. Earlier today, the rising senior was one of 26 players named to the Davey O’Brien Award watch list after being one of eight semi-finalists in the running…

SEC Media Days: Florida Gators

When Dan Mullen left Mississippi State to become the head man at Florida back in November, he did so as the second-winningest coach in MSU history. Today, he took part in SEC Media Days with his new school for the…

SEC Media Days: Ole Miss Rebels

Gulfport native Matt Luke is going into his 18th season as either a player or coach in the Southeastern Conference. After all those years, the new head coach of the Rebels is finally checking SEC Media Days off his bucket…