Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today

Coach Prime got a Gatorade bath, a game ball — and, he got his stuff back

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On Mon, 02/22/2021 - 10:02 AM

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Where endorsements are concerned for college athletes, the devil is in details

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On Thu, 02/18/2021 - 05:02 PM

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Yes, says former Mississippi State baseball great Jake Mangum, he wishes he had been allowed to earn money from endorsements when he was hitting line drives, stealing bases and was the face of the popular Bulldogs baseball program from 2016-2019.

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The Rebels who couldn’t shoot straight suddenly are hitting mark

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On Fri, 02/12/2021 - 04:12 PM

This was just three games ago for Ole Miss basketball: The Rebels were 8-8 overall, a disappointing 3-6 in the Southeastern Conference. They were coming off double-digit losses to Arkansas and Georgia. They were playing decent defense, but the offense seemed terribly out of sync.

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Few people live their dreams, but Ole Miss great Jimmy Weatherly lived two

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On Thu, 02/04/2021 - 04:53 PM

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The name of the song was “Midnight Plane to Houston.” Jimmy Weatherly, the singing and song-writing former Ole Miss quarterback, loved his new tune, but it was going nowhere fast.

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Art Davis loved Mississippi so, he came home to die ‘on home turf’

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On Tue, 02/02/2021 - 09:57 AM

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The last time I talked at length to the Mississippi State football legend Art Davis was in September 2014. Art was living in Oregon, but his heart was in Mississippi where his old friend, Jack Cristil, had died.

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It just could be that more folks are walking more during the pandemic

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On Mon, 02/01/2021 - 10:52 AM

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Over coffee recently, we were discussing long-range ramifications, almost all bad, of this COVID-19 pandemic. Someone asked if there might be anything positive to come from it. There was a long pause.

I said I might have something. And I might. See what you think.

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The legend of NFL’s QB whisperer Bruce Arians began at Mississippi State

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On Wed, 01/27/2021 - 11:37 AM

They call Bruce Arians, head coach of the Super Bowl Tampa Bay Bucs, the “quarterback whisperer” because of his influence on the careers of such superstars as Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Andrew Luck and Carson Palmer, among many others.

Not to mention, Arians now coaches a guy named Tom Brady.

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In women’s hoops, we suddenly have a real Mississippi rivalry

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On Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:23 AM

Don’t look now, but we suddenly have a competitive Ole Miss-Mississippi State women’s basketball rivalry. At last.

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His name is Carson, he lives in Raymond, and he will officiate the national championship

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On Mon, 01/11/2021 - 09:57 AM

When Hinds County resident Fulton Carson takes the field Monday night for college football’s national championship game at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, it is quite possible that no participant will have come further.

We’re not talking miles here.

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Sports Talk: Devoted friends to the end

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On Wed, 10/21/2020 - 04:12 PM

Baseball Hall of Famer Whitey Ford, the stylish, left-handed pitcher who died October 8 at age 91, pitched in a remarkable 498 Major League games, all for his beloved New York Yankees.
The catcher for Ford’s last game in 1967? He would be Jake Gibbs, the Ole Miss football legend from Grenada.

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