Mississippi State Sports Blog

This comes from the Tennessean’s (Nashville) Joe Biddle:
”As we were going through it, here we were in Starkville, Miss., and the day we got back from the regional finals and practiced, the national media was all over the town. We had never seen that before,” [Richard] Williams said. ”We get to New York and here [...]

#86. MSU 6 - Bama 3 - 1980:
Even with the cowbells and the screaming, Jacobs still got the Tide down to the MSU four. The clock kept ticking. There wasn’t enough time to get the field goal unit on the field for a last-gasp attempt, so Jacobs took the snap and ran the [...]

The AP Wire has a story about tonight’s annual Mayor’s Trophy matchup between Ole Miss and State. While this is a game with State’s main rival, Ron Polk isn’t to concerned:
“The most important three games will be when we go to Oxford,” Polk said. “We want to win, there’s no question about it, but [...]

# 21 - Baseball America - 2005 College Baseball Top 25
#14 - Collegiate Baseball - Top 25

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Showing why he is by the far the worst sports columnist in the South, Bubba Burnham of the Clarksdale Press Register says:
Now sadly, the time has come where it might be best for the two to part company.Under Stansbury, the Bulldogs will get no better than what they are now. Graduation will hit hard.A [...]

In what has come to resemble Navy SEAL/BUDS candidates washing out during training, the Clarion-Ledger reports OL Donovan Davis has quit the team.
“We’d rather it happen now than in the middle of the season,” offensive line coach J.B. Grimes said. “We want to find out what their breaking point is now, so we can work [...]

Baseball America - 2005 College Baseball Top 25 - #24
Collegiate Baseball - #17 (One spot ahead of Ole Miss)

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Stanford - MSU recaps:
SFGate.com - CARDINAL ZONE OUT / Stanford goes cold in second half, heads home
Monterey (CA) Herald - ONE AND DONE
Mercury News (San Jose, CA) - STANFORD NOTEBOOK / Bulldogs zero in from three-point range
Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) Bulldogs make a stop and go

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For an athletic program that seems to have a rain cloud following overhead news like this shouldn’t suprise anyone.
Jack Cristil, the man who’s been calling Bulldogs games on the radio since the legendary inventor Marconi tabbed him for the job, missed the trip here because of pneumonia. And Walter Sharpe, who probably would ask for [...]

Jim Mashek: The forecast is bleak in Starkville.
Power played through an injury in last week’s SEC Tournament, but Campbell did not. State played uninspired basketball in a victory over a wretched Georgia squad, and then got embarrassed by Florida. The Gators went on to beat Kentucky for the second time in eight days, and [...]

Stanford faces tougher road than Pacific or St. Mary’s
STANFORD: A No. 8 seed rewards team’s perseverance this season
Stanford to face Mississippi St.
Stanford men face tough road in NCAAs
Look who’s coming to Charlotte

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From the Tuscon Citizen:
The next step is to keep playing their best. That is what the Cats hope to be doing with the next challenge against an unbeaten Bulldogs squad (8-0) from the powerhouse Southeastern Conference, and then against defending national champion California-Fullerton next weekend.
The Wildcats are relying a lot lately on pitching and not [...]

Via the AP:
Mississippi State is the only team playing Thursday that seems to have any chance of surviving a four-games-in-four-days gauntlet. The Bulldogs won the regular-season title in 2004 and might have made another run at the championship this season if not for a string of injuries.
“We’re a little disappointed because we’re used to competing [...]

I guess we should be thankful Omarr Connor didn’t break his leg.
On another note, you’ve got to love Croom’s philosophy during the Spring:
“The rest of them, they haven’t quite earned (their numbers),” Croom said. “If they do well this spring, we’ll get ‘em numbers.”
Therefore, it should be noted that when Croom praised the work [...]

I found this while doing a Google search. This is how I imagine most Genespage.com posters.

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