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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 labor dispute between the MLB owners and the Players Association is starting to get ugly and yet baseball appears to still be on the table for the 2020 season. As first reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the union fired…
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…
For the first time in the history of the Ole Miss football program, the Rebels have an HBCU institution on the schedule. Paging Alcorn State, home of the Braves, set to make the trip to Vaught Hemingway Stadium in Oxford…
Gulfport basketball star Deon Drake is finally heading to the next level. On Wednesday, the recently graduated point guard gave his verbal pledge to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College where first-year Head Coach Tim Ryan made quick work of recruiting…
When the NCAA dropped a 10 year show cause penalty on former Southern Miss men’s Basketball Coach Donnie Tyndall, USA Today called it “the most severe penalty handed out to a coach in NCAA history.” More than five years later,…
We all like a good comeback story, how about Picayune’s Kobe Jones making his commitment with Oakleaf Prep Academy out of Douglasville, Georgia? The young mamba was second on his team in scoring as a junior at more than 12…
Let’s establish the Deep South Summer Collegiate League as the best way to consume live local baseball for the next month and a half. Back at PRCC’s Dub Herring Park for the last time this week, Team McCarty taking on…
Former Southern Miss Head Men’s Basketball Coach Donnie Tyndall is heading back to the college ranks for the first time since his unceremonious firing from Tennessee. On Tuesday, Tyndall was approved as the next head man at Chipola Community College…
If first year Mississippi State Head Football Coach Mike Leach is still around in another 10 years, he’ll get the chance to do battle against his former team. Today, MSU announced a home-and-home against Washington State set for August 31st,…
The coronavirus obviously messed up a lot of things for a lot of people. And yet in the midst of a global pandemic, one thing that didn’t get messed up is a brand new baseball organization in South Mississippi. The…
As a result of controversial comments made by Drew Brees over the National Anthem, in some ways, the New Orleans Saints have been at the center of conversations dealing with racial inequality and social justice reform. Saints Safety Malcolm Jenkins…
Most of the local high school softball programs hadn’t even played a district game when the 2020 season was suspended due to COVID-19. As it turns out, those local seniors would never play a district game ever again, all without…
Saints running back Alvin Kamara is showing his newfound support for NASCAR following its decision to ban the Confederate Flag. On Sunday, Kamara attended the X-Finity Series Race, the contender boats 250, repping a t-shirt and hat sent to him…
Back on the diamond, Southern Miss outfielder Hunter LeBlanc has announced his plans to transfer to Jones College where he can use up to two of his three years of remaining eligibility. LeBlanc has been a regular contributor for the…
The inevitable has happened at Mississippi State. According to the Clarion Ledger, four football players have tested positive for the coronavirus out of about 100 student-athletes that were tested. The names of those players haven’t been released, but those players…
As if Colt Keith wasn’t already stressed out enough about his baseball future, the former Biloxi Indian says he only got one hour of sleep the night before day two of the MLB Draft. The rest of the day was…
Leading up to the 2020 MLB first year player draft, no high school baseball player from the state of Mississippi has been hyped up more than Biloxi’s Colt Keith. The former Gatorade Player of the Year came into day two…
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…
When people say ‘man, that guy came out of nowhere,’ chances are he didn’t come out of nowhere, chances are he’s been working his tail off when no one was watching. Ocean Springs alum Garrett Crochet is one of those…
Prior to the arrival of Tropical Storm Cristobal, baseball was played at Biloxi’s MGM Park on Saturday for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Introducing the Louisiana Knights. A wooden bat organization with ties to Mississippi,…
One local player still waiting to hear his name called sometime tomorrow is former Biloxi Indian Colt Keith. The five tool shortstop checks in as the 87th ranked prospect, according to MLB Pipeline, giving him a great chance of hearing…