By CLIFF BRUNT The NCAA is investigating potential violations of sports betting rules involving 13 former men’s basketball players who competed for six schools. Cases include athletes formerly associated with Eastern Michigan, Temple, Arizona State, New Orleans, North Carolina A&T and…
Mississippi State will return to the Coast this spring for a two-game stand at Keesler Federal Park. The Bulldogs will play in the 2025 Hancock Whitney Classic on March 11…
Les Miles, former LSU head football coach that led the Tigers to a 2007 National Championship, is suing the university over its 2023 decision to vacate 37 of his teams' victories between…
BY RALPH D. RUSSO The NCAA and the nation’s five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing…
(Jackson, Mississippi) Attorney General Lynn Fitch last week joined a lawsuit, along with 11 state attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Justice, challenging the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA)Transfer…
Updated 2:21 PM CDT, August 23, 2023 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Southern California running back Reggie Bush plans to file a defamation lawsuit against the NCAA over a statement made by college sports’ governing body about the reasoning for…
The following press release is courtesy of Southern Miss Sports Information Director Jack Duggan. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 13, 2023 Tennessee Homers Past Southern Miss to Advance to College World Series HATTIESBURG, Miss.…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The NCAA Super Regionals are returning to Pete Taylor Park/Hill Denson Field for the second time in program history. The NCAA announced Tuesday, June 6, that Southern…
The following is a press release courtesy of Southern Miss Sports Information Director Jack Duggan. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 28, 2023 Southern Miss Wins 2023 Guardian Credit Union Sun Belt Conference…
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Ole Miss comes away victorious in a battle of the last two national champions, taking down Mississippi State 3-2 at Dudy Noble Field. WJTV Sports Director Blake Levine…
A game changer on the collegiate diamond today, the Division I council approved a measure to turn all volunteer assistants in baseball and softball into full time coaches.…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Ole Miss beat Southern Miss 5-0 Sunday in game two of a Super Regional to advance to the College World Series…
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 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.
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 […]
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…