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Brian Dozier will be at home on Opening Day and loves it

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 23,502 Reads
Tue, 03/30/2021 - 09:47 AM

Major League Baseball’s opening day is set for Thursday. All 30 big league teams will play, but for the first time in a decade Mississippian Brian Dozier will not.

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Mississippi, relatively small and sparsely populated state, gets 15% of the potential NCAA college baseball regional sites. That includes Dudy Noble Field in Starkville. Credit: Kelly Donoho/Mississippi State athletics

NCAA announced 20 possible baseball regional sites. Mississippi has three of them.

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 64 Reads
Mon, 05/17/2021 - 08:39 AM

The NCAA Baseball Committee Friday named its 20 potential regional tournament sites and Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Southern Miss all made the cut. The 16 actual sites will be revealed at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 30.

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All these decades later, little ‘JT’ Bell gets his day at Miss. State

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 193 Reads
Wed, 05/12/2021 - 04:13 PM

In a more fair and just Mississippi, James Thomas Bell — JT to his family and friends around Starkville — probably would have attended his hometown college, then Mississippi A&M, where he surely would have become a baseball star.

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Mike Bianco is about to reach his 800th win at Ole Miss. Can his 2021 team get to Omaha?

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 5,360 Reads
Fri, 05/07/2021 - 02:45 PM

When Ole Miss next wins a baseball game — quite possibly this weekend in a three-game series at Texas A&M — it will mark Mike Bianco’s 800th victory at the university and his 900th as a college baseball coach.

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Fifty years ago, in 1971, Archie Manning was the second pick of the first round of the NFL Draft. He almost missed it.

Fifty years ago, Archie Manning, the 2nd pick, almost forgot NFL Draft

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 239 Reads
Mon, 05/03/2021 - 12:21 PM

The NFL Draft has become such a monstrosity of a production. We’ve had mock drafts coming out for weeks, if not months. Talking heads have been talking about it, and writing fingers have been typing about it — ad nauseam. The event is nationally televised over three days before a packed house of seemingly crazy people.

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They could’ve picked Elijah Moore, but Saints drafted Payton Turner. Time will tell…

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 216 Reads
Fri, 04/30/2021 - 01:45 PM

So when it finally came time for the New Orleans Saints to pick in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft Thursday night, many folks, including this one, thought they might opt for Ole Miss wide receiver Elijah Moore, the best college player in Mississippi this past season.

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Mike Kinnison’s No. 15 jersey will be retired at Delta State Saturday. Kinnison, a former DSU All American, won 75.6 percent of his games as the school’s head coach. He won a national championship in 2004 and six NCAA Regional titles as head coach.

Delta State retires Kinnison’s jersey; they’ll never retire his remarkable story

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 121 Reads
Mon, 04/26/2021 - 10:35 AM

Author’s note: Delta State University will retire former head baseball coach Mike Kinnison No. 15 jersey in a ceremony Saturday at Harvey Stadium-Ferriss Field prior to the 2 p.m. doubleheader against the University of Alabama-Huntsville.

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Don Kessinger batted .400 for his Ole Miss career, but he was even better known for his fielding ability. (Ole Miss athletics)

Was Don Kessinger the best Ole Miss athlete ever? So glad you asked.

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 113 Reads
Thu, 04/22/2021 - 10:59 AM

Greatest athlete in Ole Miss history? My guess in 99% of Rebels would blurt “Archie Manning” before the question is completed.

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Tanner Allen celebrates his bases-clearing triple that gave State the lead for good in Sunday’s 7-5 victory over Ole Miss. (MSU Athletics)

‘Dogs back in ‘catbird’s seat’ with thrilling 7-5 Sunday win

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 64 Reads
Mon, 04/19/2021 - 10:25 AM

Fewer than 24 hours after being drubbed 9-0 by arch-rival Ole Miss, Mississippi State Sunday climbed back into what Mississippi native and broadcasting legend Red Barber famously called “the catbird’s seat.”

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Ole Miss pitcher Doug Nikhazy shouts toward his teammates in the dugout after an eighth inning strikeout. (MSU athletics)

What a difference a day makes — that and a pitcher named Doug Nikhazy

By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 72 Reads
Mon, 04/19/2021 - 10:21 AM

On a sunny spring Saturday from jam-packed Dudy Noble Field after an 9-0 Ole Miss whitewash of Mississippi State, why write 700 words when just two will do?

Doug Nikhazy.

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May 13, 2021