Rebels punch ticket to "Olemaha" with Super Regional sweep over Southern Miss
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Ole Miss beat Southern Miss 5-0 Sunday in game two of a Super Regional to advance to the College World Series…
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NCAA approves new transfer rule: Division I players no longer have to sit out a year
Used to be a college football player couldn’t transfer from one Division I program to another without going down a level or sitting out a year altogether. That’s no longer the case. Today, the NCAA Division I Council voted to…
Fewer brackets but same of people number plan to make bets on March Madness
Fewer Americans expect to fill out brackets for the NCAA’s college basketball tournament this year, but the overall number of people making bets on March Madness should remain about the same as the last time the tournament was held, according to the gambling industry’s national trade association.
NCAA allows blanket waivers for all transfers immediately
The NCAA’s Division I Council has granted blanket waivers for all athletes to play immediately. The NCAA’s announcement includes all Division I sports, but is contingent on certain criteria being met. Transfers previously were required to sit out a season unless granted a waiver by the NCAA. The NCAA had decided on waivers on a […]
Ole Miss-Texas A&M game postponed due to Aggies COVID-19 issues
The Ole Miss football program has dealt with some COVID-19 issues this season and fifth-ranked Texas A&M is still dealing with the same thing, forcing the two sides to postpone Saturday’s game. The Aggies still have several players in quarantine,…
NCAA announces COVID-19 testing guidelines
What the sport of college football looks like during the 2020 season largely remains to be seen. But assuming there is college football to be played, schools are no longer in the dark when it comes to COVID-19 testing guidelines.…
NCAA calling for no championships in states with Confederate flag
The power of sports is being able to take a human rights issue and turn it into a sports issue as a means of forcing change. That’s what happened when SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey took a stand against the state…
NCAA expands ban, joins SEC in targeting Confederate flag
By RALPH D. RUSSO The NCAA on Friday expanded its policy banning states with prominent Confederate symbols from hosting its sponsored events, one day after the Southeastern Conference made a similar declaration aimed at the Mississippi state flag. The current…
NCAA grants collegiate summer league waiver
The NCAA also tinkering with rules on the baseball front, specifically regarding collegiate summer leagues. The governing body has granted a waiver, allowing up to eight players from the same program to play on the same summer team. Previously, schools…
NCAA announces further workout guidelines
The NCAA has announced further guidelines for the student-athletes already back on campus for voluntary workouts. Football players started returning as early as June 1st and on Wednesday that voluntary workout period was extended an additional two weeks through the…
NCAA grants relief to Division I baseball
Help is officially on the way for college baseball programs in the wake of COVID-19. On Wednesday, the NCAA Division I Committee for Legislative Relief granted a blanket waiver for the 2020-2021 academic year. That eliminates the 35 man roster…
NCAA extends restart date to all sports beginning June 1st
Football and basketball came first and now all the rest as the NCAA has extended its June 1st restart date to all Division I sports. That means all student-athletes can resume voluntary on-campus workouts in a limited capacity for the…
NCAA extends recruiting dead period due to COVID-19
For the second time in as many months, the NCAA has extended its recruiting dead period, pushing it out an additional month to June 30th after it was set to expire at the end of May. The original dead period…
NCAA football at mercy of states, universities
NCAA President Mark Emmert says he won’t have the final say on the fate of college sports returning this fall, leaving that decision up to state officials and university presidents. There was already prior speculation that SEC football could go…
NCAA extends recruiting dead period to May 31st
The NCAA has extended its recruiting dead period to May 31st in light of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. This ruling applies to both division I and II athletics which was originally put in place through April 15th. By definition, a…
NCAA grants relief for spring sports, denies relief for winter sports
There’s no precedent as to how the NCAA is supposed to proceed in the event of a pandemic canceling the entire spring sports calendar, but as promised the governing body is doing the right thing. As first reported by The…
NCAA spring athletes granted relief: players given year of eligibility
Now here’s where things get complicated, regardless of whether or not we’ve seen the last of collegiate athletics this spring, the NCAA is granting relief for all players, participating in spring sports and will discuss issues for winter spring athletes,…
SEC, C-USA done for rest of 2020 season due to Coronavirus
Everything is canceled, not really, but almost everything is canceled as the Coronavirus continues to pose a serious threat to athletes and fans alike. It all started Wednesday night in Oklahoma City where Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert was diagnosed…
Ole Miss meets with NCAA committee on infractions Monday
As Ole Miss prepares for its biggest game of the season at Cal Berkeley, it’s also fighting for the fate of the football program for years to come at this week’s hearing with the NCAA committee on infractions. This morning,…
Ole Miss meeting set with NCAA
Two weeks into the college football season, Ole Miss will be preparing for its biggest game of the year. It’s not the week three game at Cal-Berkeley, rather Covington, Kentucky. That’s the site of the university’s meeting with the NCAA…
Hugh Freeze not stressing over NCAA
During the course of a college football season, the approach is almost always the same: one game at a time. Similarly the concept of one day at a time also applies to Ole Miss following its response to the NCAA.…
Ole Miss responds to NCAA
From the day Ole Miss received its notice of allegations from the NCAA, school officials made it clear of their plans to contest those allegations. Today, they did just that. The Rebels fire back with yet another response to the…
NAACP opposes NCAA softball tournament until state flag comes down
A Civil Rights group is asking the NCAA to move a regional softball tournament out of Mississippi because the state flag contains the Confederate battle emblem. Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson calls the emblem a ‘racial hate symbol.’ The University…
Bill to Speed up NCAA Introduced
One Mississippi lawmaker has the NCAA in his crosshairs with a newly presented House bill. House Bill 1040 or the National Collegiate Athletic Association Fairness in F.A.C.T Investigations Act of 2017 was introduced by Representative Trey Lamar of Senatobia. The…