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PRCC Point Guard Tae Hardy commits to Southern Miss

At Southern Miss, first year Head Men’s Basketball Coach Jay Ladner landed a big time JUCO transfer in the form of PRCC Point Guard Tae Hardy. According to jucorecruiting.com, Hardy has given his verbal commitment to the Golden Eagles, who…

New field, new look for Southern Miss baseball

January 31st is the last day of the last month without Southern Miss baseball and media day. The Golden Eagles are exactly two weeks away from breaking in their new turf with a new look line-up upon the departure of…

NCAA Basketball: Southern Miss vs. Old Dominion

Despite coming into Thursday’s game with a record nine games under .500, the Southern Miss men’s basketball team is just one week removed from its first two-game winning streak of the entire season. And believe it or not, the Golden…

USM baseball picked to win C-USA

The Southern Miss baseball program is pretty familiar with a championship Sunday of their own, having won three out of the last four Conference USA Tournament titles and the last two in Biloxi. That recent dominance has the Golden Eagles…

Two Southern Miss alumni on the 49ers

The story of the San Francisco 49ers and their run to Super Bowl 54 can’t be told without Southern Miss. The only two schools with more alumni on the current roster are Penn State and Stanford, leaving the Golden Eagles…

USM baseball turf field ready for 2020

The artificial turf era of Southern Miss baseball is officially underway. On Friday, the Golden Eagles broke in their playing surface for the very first time on the very first day of spring practice. Replacing the natural grass is a…

USM Alum Kirk McCarty overcoming Minor League setback

When ace pitcher McCarty was drafted by the Cleveland Indians back in 2017, his Southern Miss Golden Eagles were coming off a school-record 50 win season. But for all the success he experienced in Hattiesburg, McCarty has been through an…

Pete Taylor Park gets synthetic surface

Up in Hattiesburg, the Pete Taylor Park facelift is complete. The Southern Miss baseball program is now home to a synthetic turf field, permanently replacing the natural grass. The project took less than three months to complete just in time…

Offensive Coordinator Buster Faulkner leaving Southern Miss

For the second year in a row, Southern Miss is in search of a new offensive coordinator. Buster Faulkner has been hired by Georgia to the position of offensive quality control according to the program’s website. He’ll now be working…

Two Southern Miss alumni heading to the Super Bowl

A touch of Black and Gold to a Super Bowl with a lot of red, Southern Miss will have two representatives when the San Francisco 49ers take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 54. What a moment it…

George County’s M.J. Daniels offered by Southern Miss

George County’s M.J. Daniels has a third Division I scholarship to add to his bag, the most recent one coming from Southern Miss. However, the Rebels standout junior is already committed to Ole Miss after picking up his first SEC…

Southern Miss 2020 scheduled released

Southern Miss has officially rolled out its 2020 slate, beginning with South Alabama on September 5th. That starts a run of three straight home games including Louisiana Tech and Jackson State, leading up to USM’s first road test at Auburn…

Southern Miss ends season on three game skid

For a team that had a shot at a Conference USA championship into late November, Southern Miss certainly didn’t play like it down the stretch, ‘exhibit A’ being Saturday’s Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl. The Golden Eagles got off to…

USM Football: Seven players tabbed on first/second teams

More post-season recognition being handed down at Southern Miss in the form of seven All-Conference USA selections. Three of those are first-team players, starting with junior Wide Receiver Quez Watkins, who led the league with more than 100 yards per…

Southern Miss to face Tulane in Armed Forces Bowl

Outside of the National Championship Game, the second to last bowl game belongs to 7-5 Southern Miss. On January 4th, the Golden Eagles get the chance to renew their rivalry with Tulane as a part of the Lockheed Martin Armed…

Southern Miss still alive in title race despite WKU loss

Now as it pertains to Jack Abraham, the Conerly Trophy nominee left the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game against Western Kentucky with an apparent injury to his left leg, leaving his status for the Florida Atlantic game up in the…

Biloxi’s Tim Jones shines in USM win over UAB

It took Tim Jones all of nine games and 44 receptions, but the Biloxi High School alum finally hit pay dirt for the first time all season. On Tuesday, Jones told News 25 he was “allergic to the end zone,”…

Southern Miss dominates UAB in revenge win

Prior to Saturday, the last time the Southern Miss football program had beaten UAB was 2013. Well before Jay Hopson’s return to Hattiesburg in 2016 and certainly before USM’s overtime heartbreaker in 2018. The Golden Eagles made good on their…

Southern Miss football gives chase to C-USA title

After being one of four bowl eligible teams to get snubbed from actually going to a bowl game in 2018, Southern Miss is now just one win away from getting back to that six-win plateau in 2019, but right now…

Jay Ladner wins Southern Miss coaching debut

"We're in this to win it. We're in this to win it. We're not in it to have winning seasons. We're in it to win it. We're in it to win conference championships. We're in it to go to the…

Southern Miss vs. Louisiana Tech

As a senior coming out of Oxford High School, Southern Miss Quarterback Jack Abraham originally signed his national letter of intent with Louisiana Tech. On Saturday, the now USM signal caller made his first trip back to Ruston, wearing black…