Mississippi State Sports Blog

Nashville City Paper previews the upcoming series.

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The Clarion-Ledger has a piece on Mario Austin’s return to basketball. He’s playing for the Jackson Rage, a World Basketball Association franchise. I won’t rehash Austin’s ill-fated trip to Russia, but here is the money line:
“I’m looking at it as a good opportunity to show what I can do,” Austin said. “I’m taking [...]

Sounds like it, according to this Birmingham News piece:
They saw each other in passing in the locker room and exchanged hellos. Then they chatted on the driving range and formalized plans to play together next month in Destin during the SEC’s spring meetings.
Thus, “Croomgate” ended not with a bang, but with a chuckle at the [...]

And guess with whom? That’s right, RaiderNation signed MSU UA(under achiever) Tommy Kelly. RaiderFan will enjoy watching TK take every other play off and then brag on the sidelines about his one good play of the day.
Good luck, TK. We’re glad you’re someone elses problem now.

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The Lafayette Daily Advertiser reports today:Sources within the Mississippi State athletic department say Kirby is scheduled to meet today with UL athletic director Nelson Schexnayder, the fourth hopeful to interview for the position.

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Coach Croom’s comments on Spring Practice:: “‘I thought we had a good spring this year. We were very fortunate in that we didn’t have any serious injuries. I thought we made a lot of progress in terms of getting our offensive, defensive and kicking schemes going. I thought we made a nice surge toward the [...]

Lou Holtz comments on Coach Croom during SEC teleconference:
“I’ve heard nothing but great things about Sylvester Croom. I think it’s a great thing for the conference. He seems to be going about everything the right way. You look at the kind of obstacles he’s had to overcome and he’s handled everything with class. I [...]

Craig Tatum went 2-for-4 with a double, two RBI and a run scored to help lead Mississippi State to a 12-2 victory over UAB Tuesday night.

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MSU begins a two game road swing today against UAB. Tomorrow that battle Birmingham Southern, a team that beat State back in March. Josh Johnson starts tonight versus the Blazers.
Needless to say, this week’s road games (including the Vandy series) are big in getting back into the SEC race and the NCAA tourney [...]

That’s how many MSU football players were drafted this weekend. Thanks for the player development, Jackie.

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Auburn avoids the sweep Sunday, however, by getting 4 runs in the 9th to walk off with the 6-5 victory. A sweep would’ve been huge and put State at .500 in the SEC for the first time since March. As it stands, the Dawgs are still in 9th place and on the outside [...]

Coach Croom announced 3 new awards to be given each Spring. Omarr Connor and Deljuan Robinson are awarded Most Improved Player awards on offense and defense respectively. David Stewart was awarded the Bulldog award “which will be given annually to the one player who showed his teammates the greatest work ethic, leadership ability, [...]

State travels to #11 Auburn this weekend. Avoiding the sweep seems to be all MSU can hope for these days.

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The game was called because of darkness. Electricity was knocked out in the 6th inning, leaving the entire campus without power during the middle of prime term paper time. Doh!

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Sweep it’s C-USA opponents. Oh boy. MSU wastes valuable hits on midweek foe, for 10-2 victory over Mam’phis.
At least Corley is doing well, with 41 RBI’s and a .355 BA.

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