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The Mississippi High School Activities Association is on board with the June 1st restart, but it’s not always that simple. The guidelines set forth by Governor Reeves will also be met by those handed down by the MHSAA as soon…
It has been, still is, and probably will be a long road back to normalcy for all sports in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. However, that road is shaping up to be a shorter one in Mississippi per the…
A familiar foe of the Biloxi Shuckers in the Southern League, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos are making the most of what’s turning out to be a lost season. Without weekly home games to bring in revenue, the AA affiliate of…
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…
The Ole Miss football program will be playing a Sun Belt school on the road for the first time in more than two decades and more than nine years from now. Today, it was announced the Rebels will be playing…
Under-recruited high school seniors from the class of 2020 have the added challenge of finding homes at the next level in the aftermath of COVID-19. St. Martin’s Andre Brunt is one of those players that overcame the odds on both…
Michigan native and Dayton Alum Adam Trautman is ready to move to New Orleans leading into his rookie season on the heels of the most unique NFL Draft in league history. Before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Adam Trautman’s name,…
When it comes to the NFL Draft, it’s all about value and teams don’t have to tell you how they value a player, they show you. Just like the New Orleans Saints trading a total of four picks for just…
Major League Baseball isn’t quite the next domino ready to fall, but things could be trending in that direction. MLB and the Player’s Association are in their second week of negotiating terms to start a shortened season with the union…
When it comes to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the world of sports, the domino effect is very real. It was real when one positive test in the NBA led to a chain reaction of cancelations and it’s…
It’s been more than two months since high school athletics took a backseat to COVID-19. Seasons cut short, senior nights canceled, memories never made, and champions never crowned, but today the first signs of life from the Mississippi High School…
College baseball could have a new start date in 2022 if the new college baseball model catches any traction. Today a panel of Power Five coaches unveiled plans to start the season on the third weekend of March and the…
More than a half dozen USM baseball players could be taking the diamond again in less than a month as a part of the Deep South Summer Collegiate League, founded by Gulfport Assistant Coach Colton Caver. Those being Billy Garrity,…
Win or lose on Wednesday, the Southern Miss baseball team would have been playing its second game of the Conference USA Tournament today at MGM Park in Biloxi, But shoulda, woulda, coulda seems to be the new normal as a…
The Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College men's basketball program is hitting the restart button, for the second year in a row, having hit a home run hire with its second head coach in as many years. On Wednesday, the bulldogs…
One of the many local sporting events held hostage by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, is this year's Conference USA Tournament. The tournament was supposed to start Wednesday, with the Southern Miss Golden Eagles coming in as the two-time reigning champions.…
One of the biggest losers in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak has been the sport of baseball. Yet, there’s one league in South Mississippi that’s on the verge of doing something even before Major League Baseball does it and…
In the days, weeks, and months that followed Hurricane Katrina, the Superdome became a symbol of something much more than New Orleans Saints football rather an American comeback story. All these years later, that symbol is gonna have a new…
The entire Southern League season could still fall victim to the same fate, but even if the Shuckers don’t take the diamond in 2020, MGM Park could still have baseball as soon as June or July. Gulfport Assistant Baseball Coach…
According to Brandon Shields of Mississippigridiron.com, the Mississippi High School Activities Association will have an executive committee meeting on Thursday to discuss the potential June 1st restart. If the date is upheld, schools across the Magnolia State will immediately be…
More than five weeks after what was supposed to be Opening Day, still no Southern League baseball and it’s not trending in the right direction. Today, the league officially canceled the All-Star Game, originally scheduled for June 23rd at the…
As a follow up to last week’s report about the NFL incentivizing teams with draft picks to hire minority head coaches and general managers, the league is also expanding the Rooney Rule. The rule was established in 2003, requiring NFL…
The last time the USC football program hosted a team from the SEC, current Ole Miss Head Coach Lane Kiffin was the Trojans’ offensive coordinator. That was a 70-17 win over Arkansas that was later vacated, it’s largest victory during…
The shortest amateur draft in the history of Major League Baseball has an official start time and date. The first of five rounds will start at 6 p.m. on June 10th followed by rounds two through five at 4 p.m.…