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December 1, 2008
Recruits Speak on Croom
http://djbulldogs.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/recruits-speak-on-croom/ Much of this will be in tomorrow’s Journal, but I spoke with a handful of MSU commitments today: Meridian QB Tyler Russell, Meridian WR Chris Smith, Lafayette County QB Montez Phillips and Itawamba AHS DL/FB William Shumpert. Smith and Phillips both said they will open up their recruiting again. Russell remains firm, for now.…
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December 1, 2008
Big 12, not BCS, to blame for Texas-Oklahoma mess
http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/cfb/entries/2008/12/01/big_12_not_bcs.html 1.Big 12, not BCS, to blame for Texas-OU mess: Oklahoma finished No. 2 ahead of No. 3 Texas in Sunday’s BCS Standings which means the Sooners will play in the Big 12 championship game against Missouri. The BCS will get blamed for this because the BCS gets blamed for just about everything that goes…
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December 1, 2008
Swinney to lead Tigers
Swinney to lead Tigers CLEMSON — Clemson University reached an agreement in principle Sunday to name Dabo Swinney the 25th head football coach at Clemson University. An announcement is expected in the next couple of days. Swinney, 39, was selected after athletic director Terry Don Phillips conducted a national search that began within days of…
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December 1, 2008
College football success about $, not X’s and O’s
College football success about $, not X’s and O’s Another year, another Egg Bowl, another scramble to another press conference. A year ago, it was Ole Miss coach Ed Orgeron getting whacked. After being beaten by Mississippi State and Sylvester Croom. Now it was Croom getting whacked. After being beaten by Ole Miss and Houston…
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December 1, 2008
Resignation Raises Issue of Minorities in Coaching
Resignation Raises Issue of Minorities in Coaching Mississippi State Coach Sylvester Croom resigned on Saturday, ending his tenure as the only African-American head football coach in Southeastern Conference history. The number of African-American coaches in the Football Bowl Subdivision has dwindled to three among the 119 teams, the fewest since 1993. There are 10 open…
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December 1, 2008
The story ESPN doesn’t want you to know (Whitlock is the best in the country)
The story ESPN doesn’t want you to know (Whitlock is the best in the country) This was going to be your run-of-the-mill, I-told-you-so column gloating about my Ball State Cardinals running the regular-season table and climbing to No. 15 in the BCS poll. I predicted all of this in August, and many of you justifiably…
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December 1, 2008
Someone will pay for Auburn’s crash, but it won’t be Tuberville
Someone will pay for Auburn’s crash, but it won’t be Tuberville Unless some well-connected people aren’t telling the truth, or are out of the loop, Tommy Tuberville will return for his 11th season as the Auburn head football coach. Despite Alabama 36, Auburn 0, the program’s first Iron Bowl loss since 2001 and its worst…
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December 1, 2008
Urbanator keeps routing arch-antagonists
Urbanator keeps routing arch-antagonists TALLAHASSEE — The rival killer was singing. Singing in the rain. What a glorious feeling. He was dominant again. Once more, after his Florida Gators had annihilated yet another rival, Urban Meyer stood on an enemy field in a downpour and joyously sang the school fight song with his Seminole-stomping, Gator-chomping…
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December 1, 2008
Fulmer handles final walk with class
Fulmer handles final walk with class KNOXVILLE — Cross John Majors Way. Take a left on Lake Loudoun Boulevard. Turn right on Volunteer Boulevard. Bear right on Peyton Manning Pass. At the bottom of the hill, turn left on Phillip Fulmer Way. Insert irony here. In good times, they name streets after you. In bad…
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November 30, 2008
Ranks of black coaches dwindle with Sylvester Croom’s resignation
Ranks of black coaches dwindle with Sylvester Croom’s resignation And then there were three. The number of black head football coaches in major college football has been cut in half in the last month or so, with Sylvester Croom, the coach who broke the Southeastern Conference’s football color barrier, the latest to go. Croom resigned…
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November 30, 2008
Charlie Weis wrong face to represent Notre Dame
Charlie Weis wrong face to represent Notre Dame At first blush, there would seem to be two simple choices in the Charlie Weis mess. If you believe Notre Dame football should be much, much more than it is now, then Weis should be sent packing. If you believe the college football landscape is very different…
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November 30, 2008
Why the Croom era ended in year 5
Why the Croom era ended in year 5 By Bo Bounds The Sports Think Tank – Sylvester Croom took over Mississippi State in December of 2003, after spending 17 years in professional football. Croom had not recruited a player on the collegiate level since 1987. And it showed. He had never been a coordinator at…
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December 23, 2025
Coast Guard returning full operations to its Pascagoula station
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Jeremy Pittari
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December 23, 2025
Mississippi Dept. of Education launches AI pilot program in 15 school districts
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December 23, 2025
Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that
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December 19, 2025
Firehawk Aerospace expands U.S. rocket manufacturing by acquiring Mississippi facility
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December 18, 2025
Steel industry supplier P.C. Campana moving manufacturing line to Vicksburg
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December 15, 2025
Amick Farms announces $74.5 million expansion in Jones County
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December 24, 2025
The Nutcracker: An enduring Christmas tradition
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December 24, 2025
Prophecy fulfilled
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Meredith Biesinger
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December 23, 2025
The Singing Christmas Tree: A Belhaven tradition and a Mississippi legacy
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Sid Salter
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December 24, 2025
Slain director Rob Reiner made a complex but necessary film in Mississippi in the 1990s
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Donna Akers
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December 23, 2025
The joy of learning has been lost. It’s time to bring it back
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Kimberly Ross
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December 22, 2025
Don’t say anything at all: Rob Reiner, Donald Trump, textbook narcissism and double standards
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