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Ole Miss football great Patrick Willis will go into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Saturday. Credit: Ole Miss Athletics

Miss. Sports Hall of Fame approaches biggest night in its 60-year history
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 149 Reads
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 12:00 PM
Sixty years into its existence, the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame this week prepares for the biggest weekend in its history. That’s no exaggeration.
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Ole Miss players warmup before their game Alabama in Oxford Saturday, September 15, 2018. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for America

Bottom line on NIL issue? Players are about to share NCAA’s bounty
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 393 Reads
Mon, 07/12/2021 - 05:12 PM
Below is a sports column by Rick Cleveland:

First thing first: This is not going to be the definitive essay on the name, image and likeness issue facing the big business of college athletics these days. It doesn’t claim to be.

That essay does not yet exist. There are too many unknowns, too much still to be decided.
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Mississippi State head coach Chris Lemonis (Photo Credit to MSU Athletics)

For Boo and Dudy, Will and Rafael, Mississippi State’s long wait made national crown all the more sweet
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 542 Reads
Thu, 07/01/2021 - 04:00 PM
It was a couple hours after The Game late Wednesday night, and a few of us media types were making our way out of the main entrance of TD Ameritrade ballpark. And, there, beginning at the iconic “Road to Omaha” sculpture that greets College World Series fans, a long line of people began.
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Thousands of Bulldog fans, most dressed in maroon, have descended on Omaha and taken over TD Ameritrade Park. (MSU Athletics)

Mississippi State President Mark Keenum at CWS: ‘We couldn’t afford to buy this exposure’
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 578 Reads
Thu, 07/01/2021 - 10:36 AM
In Cincinnati, Jeff Brantley, the former Mississippi State and Major League pitching standout, has kept up with his Bulldogs during commercial breaks while he broadcasts Cincinnati Reds games.
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Mississippi State celebrates after winning the College World Series 9-0 against Vanderbilt in the deciding Game 3 Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in Omaha, Neb.(MSU Athletics)

‘There’s gonna be a big party tonight’: Mississippi State baseball wins national championship
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 482 Reads
Thu, 07/01/2021 - 10:12 AM
It began as a baseball game.

It ended as a wild, maroon and white celebration.
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In the college baseball national championship game, Mississippi State faces Vanderbilt pitcher Kumar Rocker. Here's how they can beat him. - Image credit to Vanderbilt University Athletics -

State’s key in national title game against Kumar Rocker: Spit on it (his nasty slider, not him)
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 348 Reads
Wed, 06/30/2021 - 05:12 PM
Baseball players call it “spitting on” a pitch. They are not talking about tobacco juice.

To spit on a pitch is to let it go by. To not chase a breaking ball out of the strike zone. Just watch it. Spit on it. Wait for a better pitch in the zone.
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Bulldogs bounce back in Dudy North, aim for first national championship
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 348 Reads
Wed, 06/30/2021 - 09:06 AM
Mississippi State for decades stacked on decades has boasted one of the elite, most beloved college baseball programs in the country. The Diamond Dogs have been to 12 College World Series, won multiple SEC, NCAA Regional and Super Regional championships. They’ve produced dozens of Major League stars, scores of All Americans.
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Vandy takes advantage of State’s charity, takes 1-0 lead in national title series
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 296 Reads
Tue, 06/29/2021 - 09:05 AM
Mississippi State faithful filled TD Ameritrade Park like a maroon-clad army Monday night for Game One of the College World Series championship round. They came ready to make noise — and they made plenty, especially after Kamren James blasted a first inning home run well over the left centerfield fence.
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Tanner Allen (left) and Rowdy Jordan are playing in their third College World Series but will play for the first time in the championship series beginning Monday night. (MSU athletics)

Tainted? Asterisk? Forget it. CWS drama made State’s route to a national title more difficult.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 363 Reads
Mon, 06/28/2021 - 11:25 AM
So there’s a narrative making the rounds – particularly on social media – that no matter who wins this College World Series, it’s a tainted championship.
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Mississippi State will play for it all, and you won’t believe who put them there
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 191 Reads
Mon, 06/28/2021 - 11:10 AM
Mississippi State did it. As is the Bulldogs’ trademark, they did it dramatically. The ‘Dogs defeated Texas in a 4-3 walk-off nail-biter Saturday night and will play SEC comrade Vanderbilt for the national championship in a best-of-three series beginning Monday.
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