Mississippi State Sports Blog

Mississippi State has announced that the first two games of the 2006 football season will be televised. The season-opener against South Carolina on August 31 will televised by ESPN as part of its Thursday night package. It will also be the first televised college football game of the 2006 season. Kick-off for that game is [...]

With the first game less than 2 months away, the previews of next year’s football teams are starting to come out. FoxSports is up first with an in-depth preview of MSU’s 2006 Football Team. No one questioned that Sylvester Croom had a huge mountain to climb when he took over the program two seasons ago, [...]

Hot on the heels of his interview on May 2 with Coach Croom, Paul Finebaum used his Saturday column in the Mobile Press-Register to talk more about Croom. I think this pretty much sums it up. The man oozes class and is one of the most inspiring people I have encountered in college coaching. If [...]

The day of the Birmingham Bulldog Golf and Dinner Classic, Coach Croom stopped by the studios of Paul Finebaum here in Birmingham for an interview. I wasn’t able to hear it because I was out on the course, but I heard what Paul and Neil had to say after Croom had left, and it seemed [...]

Coach Croom has signed a contract extension that will carry him through the 2009 season. His original 4 year contract was signed in 2003. For every year that the football program is under NCAA sanctions, a new year is automatically added to the standard 4-year contract allowed by the State of Mississippi. Abiding by that [...]