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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Spurred by last week’s career-best, 30-point performance against Auburn, Mississippi State senior forward Charles Rhodes has been named the SEC Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. The announcement was made Monday by the league office headquartered in Birmingham. With his first-ever weekly league honor, Rhodes becomes the third different Bulldog player this season to garner [...]
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Senior Charles Rhodes recorded a career-high 30 points Wednesday evening to help Mississippi State (19-8, 10-3 Southeastern Conference) secure at least a share of its fourth SEC Western Division title in the past six years with a 89-78 triumph over the visiting Auburn Tigers (14-12, 4-9). Tonight’s defeat of the Tigers marked the 13th win [...]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
ESPN’s Joe Lunardi released his latest Bracketology update and has Mississippi State playing a 1st round game against Baylor in an 8 vs. 9 matchup in the South Region, playing in Little Rock. The significance of this is that the winner of an MSU/Baylor matchup would likely go on to play Memphis. I am sure [...]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
The Birmingham News is doing an extended feature on the SEC in honor of its 75th Anniversary. In this past Sunday’s paper, they published a list of the greatest voices of the SEC. Jack Cristil was number 4. Cristil has been Mississippi State’s voice since 1953, spanning 10 football coaches, nine school presidents and eight [...]
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
In the first overtime contest of the season for either team, the Mississippi State Bulldogs (18-8, 9-3 Southeastern Conference) posted their first win over the South Carolina Gamecocks (12-14, 4-8) in their last four matchups Saturday afternoon with a 61-56 road victory. With just 1.1 seconds remaining in regulation and MSU down 50-47, sophomore Ben [...]
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
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 [...]
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
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 [...]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
For those of you who missed it, Greg Byrne has been named the new Athletics Director for Mississippi State. He will take over when long-time AD Larry Templeton retires this summer. Kyle Veazey has posted some great bullet points from a short talk he had with Doc Foglesong after Greg was approved by the College [...]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Greg Byrne has been approved by the Mississippi College Board as the next Athletics Director of Mississippi State. Byrne will take over when current AD Larry Templeton retires this summer. Byrne has been serving as associate athletic director for development and external affairs since 2006. Here is an official release from the university. Greg Byrne, [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Jamont Gordon contributed at least 20 points for the 11th time this season but could not lift Mississippi State (17-8, 8-3 Southeastern Conference) to a win Wednesday night, as the Bulldogs fell 74-63 on the road to in-state rival Ole Miss (18-7, 4-7). Gordon also claimed six rebounds in the loss, as fellow co-captain Charles [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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 [...]
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
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 [...]
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Virginia Military Institute announced yesterday that form MSU Coordinator Sparky Woods has been hired as their new head coach. I am extremely happy that Sparky Woods was interested in VMI,” said White. “His experience as a head football coach, both at Appalachian State University and the University of South Carolina, put him at the top [...]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Co-captains Jamont Gordon and Charles Rhodes each recorded a double-double as the Mississippi State Bulldogs (16-7, 7-2 Southeastern Conference) cruised past the Auburn Tigers (12-10, 2-7) by a final score of 83-64 in their third in-conference road victory Saturday night on the road. State has now posted wins over Auburn in 12 of the teams’ [...]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
The final three members of the 2008 MSU Signing Class have finally signed on the dotted line. Rashun Dixon (brother of Anthony and Antwon) of Terry, Joshua Jackson of of Canton and Trevor Stigors of Ridgeland have all signed their letters of intent. We will have a recap of all the players in the signing [...]
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