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Via Media Relations
A school-record 16 regular-season home games highlight Mississippi State University’s 2005-06 men’s basketball schedule, as announced this week by MSU Director of Athletics Larry Templeton.
In addition, MSU’s challenging 2005-06 men’s basketball slate will feature a possible dozen outings against opponents that participated in either the NCAA Tournament or NIT a season ago.
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Mississippi State’s football game at Florida, Saturday, Oct. 8, has been chosen by Jefferson Pilot Sports for a regional telecast, the Southeastern Conference announced Monday. The game will kick off at 12:30 p.m. ET at Florida Field (11:30 a.m. CT).
It will be State’s fourth televised contest in the first six games of the [...]

A member of the DawgsBite/Gene’s Page message board posted a few photos of the damage to Perry Cafeteria and other parts of campus as a result of the tornado that hit Sunday afternoon.
Go here to see them.
UPDATE: BLOGregory has even more photos of the damage, including damage to the Bakery and trees down around the [...]

Taking questions from reporters after State’s 23-10 loss to Georgia Saturday night, Croom defended his offense of choice.
“We’re going to run the West Coast Offense,” he said. “That’s not going to change.
“We’re going to run it, we’re going to get people here who can run it, we’re going to get protected, we’re going to get [...]

Sunday afternoon, the remnants of Hurricane Rita were moving swiftly through Arkansas and Tennessee, and a causing severe weather throughout East Mississippi and West Alabama.
Around 3pm, a tornado touched down and moved through the Mississippi State campus. Damage reports have consisted of over-turned cars, downed trees, and one person even reported damage to the Colvard [...]

With a big game looming tonight for the Bulldogs (both of them), the web seems to be buzzing with stories today. Here are a few to help you through the day.
BTW, the game has been moved from an 8:00 ESPN2 game to a 6:45 ESPN game, replacing the LSU/UT game that was rescheduled for Monday, [...]

There seems to be a lot of focus on the game with #7 ranked Georgia this weekend. Many people are comparing the situation to that of Florida last year.
If you will remember, Florida rolled into Starkville for a game last year ranked #20. Mississippi State upset the Gators 38-31 and (as some speculate) ultimately cost [...]

Mississippi State came out of its game with Tulane with a 2-1 record, beating Tulane 21-14. Jerious Norwood finished the game with 99 yards on 21 carries, while Omarr Conner connected on 13 of 26 passes for 108 yards. On defense, Kevin Dockery seemed to be played well, and Willie Evans came away with 2 [...]

The Clarion-Ledger has a great profile on Derek Ambrose today.
When Ambrose enrolled at State in 2004, he sought to end to a tumultuous two-year period and start anew. Chibberton said her son has matured as a person since.
This season, Croom gave Ambrose the chance to mature as a back, and he finds himself doing that, [...]

Joedy McCreary of the Picayune Item talks about how MSU will be playing the villain role against Tulane on Saturday.
“Everybody’s going to be pulling for Tulane, much like it was for the (New Orleans) Saints” last week, Mississippi State coach Sylvester Croom said. “We’ve got to understand that. It’s not that they hate us or [...]

Via Media Relations
Mississippi State’s home football game with Georgia, Saturday, Sept. 24, has been chosen by ESPN2 for a national cable telecast, the Southeastern Conference announced Monday. The game will kick off at 8 p.m. CT at Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field.
It will be State’s third televised contest in the first four games of [...]

AOL remains busy getting into the TV business. They just announced their reality TV show and now they’ve announced they will be carrying the Tulane versus Mississippi State while running a telethon to raise money for youth sports programs in areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.
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The Shreveport Times takes a look back at the last time Mississippi State played in the Independence Bowl.
Almost five years ago, the Bulldogs came to Shreveport and delivered perhaps the most memorable Independence Bowl performance in a 43-41 overtime victory over Texas A&M in a driving snowstorm that led to the game’s being tabbed “The [...]

MSU dropped its conference opener against Auburn, losing by a score of 28-0. It is apparent that the number of penalties as well as turnovers were a deciding factor in this game.
Here is coverage of the game from around the web.
Auburn 28, MSU 0 - Daily Journal
“One year after Auburn belted Mississippi State by 29 [...]

Via Media Relations
The Mississippi State-Tulane football game will be played Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Independence Bowl Stadium in Shreveport, La., officials from Conference USA and both universities announced Thursday. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. CT and will be televised nationally by College Sports Television (CSTV).
The game was originally scheduled for the Louisiana Superdome [...]