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The Blog is enjoying the holidays and the lack of MSU sports-related news. We also have some pretty big events coming up including a 10 year wedding anniversary, so we will see you on the flip side of the new year sometime.
In the mean while, Jack Cristil is loved by MSU fans and especially for [...]

The 2008 Super Bulldog Weekend was originally scheduled for the first weekend in April, the 3-5. The Diamond Dogs have a series at home against Auburn that weekend. It has been resheduled to April 17-19 to coincide with the first spring football game under Coach Dan Mullen.
Coach Mullen placed a lot of emphasis on having [...]

This photo surfaced from today’s press conference. They are images of our new football helmets, returning to the Maroon helmet with a white MState logo. This image is from the user kdwman at Photobucket.com. Click the photo to see a larger image.
FYI, if you are the owner of this image, contact us so we can [...]

I had heard some talk of this from those attending the recent baseball camp at State. Steve Irvine of The Birmingham News is reporting that Ron Polk has joined UAB as a volunteer assistant coach.
Brian Shoop, the current UAB Headcoach is a former assistant of Polk’s at Mississippi State in the 80’s.
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Tickets are now on sale for the 46th Annual BancorpSouth Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet Friday August 1, 2008 at the Hilton Convention Center in Jackson, MS. Proceeds benefit the private non-profit Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum.
For ticket information, contact the Museum at 800-280-FAME (3263) or 601-982-8264. A reception starting [...]

News is spreading fast about the hiring of John Cohen. Spreading just as fast is word of Ron Polk’s fit he threw when his choice was passed over for the job.
Coverage of Cohen’s hiring:

The Tuscaloosa News
The Clarion Ledger
San Jose Mercury News

On Ron Polk’s Comments:

Rick Cleveland, Clarion Ledger
Biloxi Sun Herald

We also learn that Lane Burroughs plans [...]

An article at allheadlinenews.com this morning highlights Ron Polk’s disappointment at the hiring of Kentucky’s John Cohen over his choice to succeed him at State, Tommy Raffo. Cohen and Raffo were teammates at Mississippi State.
Polk told the Associated Press, “Now he’s (Byrne) got me on the war path and all I can do is hurt [...]

Mississippi State’s Ron Polk, the winningest baseball coach in Southeastern Conference history, announced he will resign effective at the end of the current season, MSU Director of Athletics Larry Templeton confirmed.
“It goes without saying that we are most appreciative of the outstanding job Ron Polk has done for Mississippi State baseball,” Templeton said. [...]

The Mississippi State baseball team came out on the short end of an offensive slugfest Saturday at Harmon Stadium. North Florida scored the game’s final 13 runs to take a 17-9 victory in the middle game of a three-game weekend series.
The series finale is set for noon CT Sunday afternoon. The Bulldogs are scheduled to [...]

Mississippi State University opened the 2008 baseball season on a positive note with an 8-2 win over the University of North Florida Friday afternoon at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, home of the Class AA Southern League Jacksonville Suns.
With the victory, M-State won its season opener for a fifth straight season. Coach Ron Polk is [...]

I get an email in my inbox every morning from Google News that has any story from the last 24 hours that mentions Mississippi State in one way or another. I am going to try to start sharing those links here as much as possible starting today.
So here we go.

Chris Talbott of the Sun Herald [...]

The SEC Coaches Baseball poll is out and it looks like Vanderbilt is picked to win the SEC outright. Ole Miss is picked to win the West with MSU picked second. Here is the full run down.
WESTERN DIVISION
1. Ole Miss 65 (10)
2. Mississippi State 47
3. Arkansas 39 (2)
4. Auburn 34
5. Louisiana State 33
6. Alabama 29
EASTERN [...]

Mississippi State has garnered its third and highest preseason national ranking in baseball, picked 23rd in the USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches’ poll.
The Bulldogs, who begin preseason practice Feb. 4 in advance of a Feb. 22 season-opening three-game series Feb. 22-24 at the University of North Florida, were previously ranked 24th by Collegiate Baseball newspaper [...]

Mississippi State’s Baseball Bulldogs have garnered another preseason national ranking, tabbed 24th in the poll conducted by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).
Arizona State is ranked first in the NCBWA poll, with North Carolina, Rice, South Carolina and Arizona rounding out the top five.
The Southeastern Conference placed an NCAA-leading seven teams in the preseason [...]

Coach Ron Polk announced yesterday that Homewood (Alabama) High left-hander David Hayes had officially signed a scholarship to play with the Diamond Dogs.
Hayes is a 6-2, 170-pound two-sport standout at Homewood High School, where he a three-year regular on the mound for coach Doug Gann and for four seasons was a quarterback for the HHS [...]