Mississippi State Sports Blog

The Mobile Register has an excellent story on MSU signee Derek Pegues. Pegues, who will likely be a #2 cornerback for State the minute he reports, will line up in the Miss-Alabama All-Star game as a tailback.
“Coach (Ricky) Woods always said I was a running back, and in his offense a quarterback isn’t nothing [...]

Don’t have too much fun in South Beach. NCAA Regional roundup:SEC Tournament run invigorates BulldogsBulldogs carrying sense of confidenceBulldogs focusing on NCAA regionalHurricanes not a top eight seed

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Quick start bodes well for Bulldogs SEC TOURNAMENT: Hits keep comin’Doolittle Strikes Out 13 As MSU Defeats Carolina 6-2 At SEC TournamentSurprising Bulldogs stay unbeaten in SEC tourneyDoolittle pitches Miss. St. to semisAnd the best headline I’ve read in years:USC swinging dead wood against Bulldogs

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News roundup:Mississippi State solves Mestepey, defeats LSUMississippi State rocks LSU, 9-2Tigers Fall Into Losers Bracket, 9-2; Face Vols ThursdayMiss. State’s hot start bites LSU Upset cityInside the SEC Tournament

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Former Grambling State/Mississippi State wide receiver ANTONIO HARGO (#80), who played last season at GSU, worked out for a member of our staff late last week (Thursday)… special thanks to coach Tom Shaw and his staff for allowing us the use of his outdoor [...]

MSU finalizes home-home series with West Virginia. Based on previous nonconference series, smart money says the Dogs will have to travel for the first came. On another note, Larry Templeton reveals the remaining non-conference game will likely be a “rent-a-win”, like previous opponents as Maine or Troy State.

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Oooh, the Croom-haters are really going to love this. College football coaches fret in players’ time out [subscription]
“How they handle themselves between now and the start of training camp will have a profound effect on what kind of season we have,” Mississippi State coach Sylvester Croom said….
Mississippi State’s Croom pounds the message home with [...]

Universities scramble to downsize sports media guides
The proposal also affects recruiting because the guides often are sent to prospective student athletes.
“From a recruiting standpoint, it’s more impressive to drop a 20-pound book on the coffee table than a 6-ounce book,” said Mike Nemeth, a Mississippi State associate athletic director. “This will put everybody in the [...]

The Hattiesburg American reports Coach Croom addressed a crowd of 225 State fans. As one would guess, he was asked whether he supported playing USM.
“I haven’t thought about it,” Croom said. “I’ve got to worry about all these other games we’ve got to play.”
When asked if he’d be open to the [...]

The Advocate’s Scott Rabalais says it’s a possiblity in his SEC preview:
OUTLOOK: This will probably be the worst year of the Croom era. If the Bulldogs can’t beat Murray State, Houston or Ole Miss at home, they may go 0-11, especially if Conner gets hurt.
Dang, that’s a bleak outlook. Have Tulane and Kentucky [...]

CFN’s Richard Cirminiello ranks college football’s 2005 Heisman candidates. Running Back Jerious Norwood comes in at #87. I guess that makes him a dark horse candidate, but at least he was mentioned.

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The 6-foot-6 1/2 inch, 318 pounder earned an 85% blocking grade for his senior season and was credited with 69 knockdown blocks. No, that’s not a typo. He had sixty-nine knockdown blocks last year, including games of 15, 12, and 11 knockdowns.

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According to NWAnews.com MSU is hitting Arkansas pretty hard this recruiting season:
POCAHONTAS TACKLE WAITING Pocahontas offensive tackle Jim Hart, 6-7, 304, 5.2, has offers from Mississippi State and Arkansas State. He attended the first Junior Day at Arkansas and said an Arkansas coach called him Wednesday night. “Mississippi State called me and has offered a [...]

ChicagoSportsReview.com
How did Mississippi State become the tortured center of the prep-to-pro phenomenon? For a school with only nine NCAA tournament victories in it’s (ahem) storied past, it has seen more than its share of defections. With Monta Ellis, a sweet-shooting guard out of Jackson Lanier HS, the latest to forgo donning the Maroon and White [...]

Grambling adds Miss. State transfer

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