Mississippi State Sports Blog

It has been officially announced that the 102nd Egg Bowl game between Mississippi State and Ole Miss will not be televised this year. Kick-off has been set for 1:30 pm.
The Men’s basketball game against Northwestern State (Louisiana) will tip-off at 7 p.m. at the Hump.
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Via Media Relations
Mississippi State University head track and field coach Al Schmidt has announced the signing of Starkville High School track athlete Santana Lowery to a national-letter-of-intent. Lowery will begin competing for the Lady Bulldogs during the 2006-07 season.
Lowery will work closely with assistant coach Kurt Thomas, who oversees women’s sprints.
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Mississippi State University has signed pitcher Jared Wesson of Tupelo, Miss., to a baseball scholarship, head baseball coach Ron Polk announced Monday.
Wesson is a 6-5, 190-pound left-handed pitcher at Itawamba Community College in Fulton, Miss., where he is coached by Rick Collier. Wesson sat out the 2005 season at ICC after undergoing successful [...]

With football season in full swing and basketball season gearing up, the other sports at MSU are often overlooked.
The MSU Volleyball Bulldogs will be facing off against #2 seed Tennessee this Friday at the Coleman Auxiliary Volleyball Annex (CAVE) on the campus of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Game time is set for 5 p.m.
With a win, [...]

Via The Courier
After completing his senior season at Russellville High School, Cyclones pitcher Jarred Holloway will continue his baseball career in the Southeastern Conference.
Holloway signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Mississippi State on Wednesday at the Russellville High School Commons. Wednesday marked the first day of a week-long period in which high [...]

Via Media Relations
The Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs will host the Athletes in Action in the final exhibition game this Friday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. before the 2005-06 season tips off. This will be the first time these two teams have met since the 2000-01 season.
State comes into the contest after losing its first exhibition [...]

Via Media Relations
Mississippi State senior defensive end Willie Evans (Waynesboro, Miss.) has been named one of six finalists for the Ted Hendricks Defensive End of the Year Award, the organization’s foundation announced Thursday.
Evans, a 6-2, 270-pounder, leads the Southeastern Conference in both quarterback sacks (11.5) and tackles for loss (15.5) this season. He currently ranks [...]

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Mississippi State University has signed infielder James E. (Jet) Butler III of Pensacola, Fla., to a baseball scholarship, head baseball coach Ron Polk announced Wednesday.
Butler is a 6-2, 185-pound middle infielder at Pensacola’s Tate High School, where he is coached by Todd Boyd. As a junior he batted .400 with 32 hits, helping [...]

Via Media Relations
Mississippi State University head men’s basketball coach Rick Stansbury announced Wednesday that forward Jarvis Varnado of Haywood High School in Brownsville, Tenn., and guard Ben Hansbrough of Poplar Bluff (Mo.) High School have signed national letters-of-intent with the Bulldogs.
Varnado, 6-foot-9, 190 pounds, averaged around 14 points, nine rebounds and seven blocks per game [...]

Via The Clarion-Ledger
As the Bulldogs took to the practice field today, Omar Conner wasn’t wearing the traditional red jersey reserved for QBs. Even though he is still the #2 QB, Conner also began working out with the wide receivers today.
Apparently after seeing good things out of Henig’s first start, Croom and McCorvey feel good about [...]

If you live in the Southeast or can get Fox Sports South on your cable/satellite package, keep an eye open for their SEC Hoops Preview series. The MSU feature will air at 10:00 central on Tuesday, November 8.
If you miss it, replays are scheduled for Saturday, November 12 at 2:30 pm and Thursday, November 17 [...]

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Charles Rhodes had 21 points and keyed the decisive spurt to lead Mississippi State to an 80-66 win over West Georgia in an exhibition game Saturday night.
Rebuilding Mississippi State led by as many as 20 and took control with a late 21-1 run. The Bulldogs are replacing their top six scorers [...]

Tide douses Dogs
Two minutes, 14 seconds. A small portion of a 60-minute game. But that was all it took to steal any momentum Mississippi State had coming out of the locker room at halftime. All it took to wipe out the effort of an MSU defense that held Alabama without an offensive touchdown.
Quieting bitter Bulldogs’ [...]

Mississippi State fell 17-0 to the Crimson Tide Saturday, despite not allowing the Bama offense in the endzone. Alabama took a 3-0 lead into the locker room at half time. They came out and were able to score two touchdowns on botched plays by Mississippi State (once on special teams, the other on an intercepted [...]

Via Media Relations
Mississippi State University President Dr. Charles Lee has appointed MSU Director of Athletics Larry Templeton, his wife Linda Jo, and Bulldog head football coach Sylvester Croom and his wife Jeri, as chairpersons for the Hurricane Katrina relief effort “MSU Warms The Coast.”
Created specifically to provide coats and jackets for youth on the Gulf [...]