Mississippi State Sports Blog

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Finishing up the final day of play in its spring opening tournament, the Mississippi State men’s golf team posted a third-round score of 304 to bring its Gator Invitational total to 903. The two-day event was played at the par-70 Mark Bostick Golf Course in Gainesville, Fla. For the first time in [...]

STARKVILLE, Miss – For the very first time, the Lady Bulldog tennis squad will hold a USTA Campus Kids’ Days on Saturday February 19, during their match against Southern Miss. Campus Kids’ Day is a United States Tennis Association sponsored event designed to expose and attract local communities and aspiring young players to the realm [...]

Mississippi State registered its highest SEC hitting percentage in 30 matches Sunday but fell short in a closely-contested 3-0 battle with South Carolina. The Gamecocks (10-3, 2-2 SEC) turned back the Bulldogs 25-22, 26-24, 25-17 before 621 fans at USC’s Volleyball Competition Center. “I’m proud of the way the girls competed today,” said State coach [...]

Mississippi State’s Oct. 3rd game with Georgia Tech is scheduled to kick off at 6:30 p.m. (CT) and will be broadcast by Comcast / Charter Sports Southeast, the Southeastern Conference announced today. Every Mississippi State football game this season will be televised by one of the conference’s television partners. The Georgia Tech game will also [...]

The Mississippi State soccer team won its seventh-straight match Friday night as Kat Walsh’s goal in the 47th minute lifted the Bulldogs to a 1-0 victory over North Florida in the Hampton Inn Ponte Vedra Showcase in Jacksonville, Fla. After playing a scoreless first half, Walsh took just 1:48 in the second half to give [...]

Via Media Relations Mississippi State will begin construction on a new, $11.2 million state-of-the-art basketball practice facility on Tuesday following the announcement that the Henry Mize Foundation has donated a lead gift of $4 million. The expected 15-month construction project will be built by JESCO, Inc. of Tupelo and Fulton, with the design concept provided [...]

The 2009 edition of Mississippi State football began preparing for its upcoming season back in January with winter workouts under the watchful eyes of head strength and conditioning coach Matt Bails. Some eight months and a countless number workouts later, the Bulldogs are ready to begin the final pre-season push. Head coach Dan Mullen welcomed [...]

The weekly syndicated television program SEC-TV will feature a segment on Mississippi State head football coach Dan Mullen when the program airs later this week. The show will air on Thursday, May 7 at 5:30 p.m. (CT) on Fox Sports South, Fox Sports Carolinas and Fox Sports Tennessee. It will also be shown on SportSouth [...]

As he has said all along, Mullen has officially announced assignments for the coaching staff now that signing day is behind us. Here is how they break down: Offense: Les Koenning – Offensive coordinator/quarterbacks Mark Hudspeth- Passing game coordinator/receivers John Hevesy – Running game coordinator/offensive line Greg Knox – Running backs Defense: Carl Torbush – [...]

Meridian High (MS) quarterback Tyler Russell and wide receiver Chris Smith both signed National Letters-of-Intent with Mississippi State today. Here are a few pics from their signing ceremony in Meridian. Tyler will wear #17 as a Bulldog and was wearing his jersey.

Jeremy Fowler of the Orlando Sentinel is reporting this morning that new MSU head coach Dan Mullen is bringing at least one of his fellow assistant coaches with him from Florida. Gators tight ends coach John Hevesy will join Dan Mullen’s staff at Mississippi State as the Bulldogs’ offensive line coach. Hevesy is another long-time [...]

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 [...]

Les Koenning, Jr., a veteran of more than 25 years coaching on the collegiate level including a previous stop at Mississippi State, has been named to head coach Dan Mullen’s coaching staff, pending approval by the Board of Trustees, Institutions of Higher Learning.

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 [...]

Mississippi State had a pretty good day. On the first day of the JUCO signing period, the Bulldogs picked up 3 binding letters of intent with possibly more on the way. Heath Hutchins led the nation in punting in 2008 with an average of 46.1 yards and a long of 69 yards. Hutchins has played [...]