OXFORD • Former Ole Miss All-American Allen Brown has died after a lengthy illness.

OXFORD • Kermit Davis might have been aware of the special number around this latest Ole Miss-Auburn game, but his wife Betty made sure he understood.

Mississippi State sophomore pitcher JT Gray and junior second baseman Justin Foscue earned their fourth preseason All-American selection on Monday, this time from Baseball America.

No. 9 Mississippi State won its 12th consecutive game against rival Ole Miss on Sunday, 80-39. Head coaches Vic Schaefer and Yolett McPhee-McCuin shared their comments after the game along with Bulldog players Jordan Danberry, Jessika Carter and Xaria Wiggins.

Looking Back: The Bulldogs won their third-consecutive conference game at home 77-70 over Arkansas on Tuesday. Robert Woodard II’s last-second jumper didn’t fall as MSU lost 63-62 to Oklahoma in Oklahoma City as part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge on Saturday.

Looking Back: The Rebels lost big at Tennessee, 71-43, on Tuesday but rebounded for their first SEC win, 70-60, at Georgia on Saturday.

STARKVILLE – It took most of four quarters but Ole Miss finally surpassed Mississippi State in points.

LOS ANGELES – Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday. He was 41.

OXFORD • The future of defensive line play at Ole Miss may not include McKinnley Jackson but could very well include a highly sought Tennessee two-way interior lineman.

STARKVILLE • Mississippi State is missing two-thirds of its weekend pitching rotation from a year ago.

STARKVILLE • No matter the sport, any time Ole Miss and Mississippi State get together to compete there’s an added energy due to the rivalry between the two schools.

No. 10 Mississippi State started baseball practice on Friday and held its annual on-campus media day the following day. 

OKLAHOMA CITY • On a day in which Oklahoma and Mississippi State both shot below 40 percent, it was fitting that a defensive stop decided their game on Saturday.

NEW ALBANY • New Albany head coach Scotty Shettles witnessed his team’s best shooting performance of the season on Saturday.

STARKVILLE • Mississippi State has made back-to-back trips to the College World Series and is expected to be contender again this season.

While no games are easy in the SEC, some are more difficult than others. One might question “if” and “when” for Ole Miss, relative to its first conference win.

Mississippi State will step away from Southeastern Conference play today, traveling to Oklahoma City to play Oklahoma as part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge.

A pair of players from each Ole Miss and Mississippi State will participate in the Senior Bowl today.

NEW SITE • The New Site Royals showed off their shooting ability on Friday night.

OXFORD – For the second time in a week Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin has named a defensive line coach.

Former West Point four-star offensive tackle Scott Lashley was briefly committed to Mississippi State during the recruiting process before signing with Alabama.

Mississippi State graduate guard Jordan Danberry was named to the Naismith Women’s Defensive Player of the Year Midseason Team.

BATON ROUGE, La – LSU coach Ed Orgeron has agreed to a new contract extension worth more than $7 million annually and which runs through the 2026 season, the university announced on Friday.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. • Eli Manning retired from the NFL after 16 seasons just the way he wanted, as a hard-working, career-long New York Giant who did it his way in leading the franchise to two Super Bowls.

STARKVILLE • There was never any doubt that Elias King could score with the basketball.

With spring just around the corner and the drive to get into the woods tough to control, the option for a cold weather campout can be just the ticket to put the fever on hold. A few extra considerations and precautions are all anyone needs to ensure a good and safe time.

The Old Man sat at the mouth of the fireplace, so close orange waves played across his glasses when he looked up at me. He smiled at the armload of wood I carried as I came in from school.

NASHVILLE • The Mississippi State Bulldogs are known for playing pressure and man-to-man defense under coach Vic Schaeffer.

Mississippi State’s coach Ben Howland joined the rest of the league’s head coaches on the SEC Teleconference on Thursday to discuss the Bulldogs’ upcoming game against Oklahoma.

The first fallout from Mississippi State’s coaching change came this week with three-star defensive end Benjamin Key announcing he is headed to Missouri.

Mississippi State and Ole Miss are among the top 25 teams ranked in the USA Today baseball coaches poll released on Thursday.

Mississippi State won its third straight game with a 77-70 victory over Arkansas on Wednesday to even its SEC record at 3-3. Head coaches Ben Howland and Eric Musselman made comments after the game along with Bulldog standouts D.J. Stewart Jr., Nick Weatherspoon and Reggie Perry. 

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