(Photo by: Taylor Bennett) More than 450 runners participated in the inaugural Run Oxford’s Mighty Half and 5k Saturday. Run Oxford, a community-organized running group in Lafayette County, created the event in order to make a comfortable space and environment for all kinds of runners. The race, sponsored...
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Tate Blackman did not have the freshman season he had hoped for a year ago, and he was bound and determined to get off to a better start this year. He did just that in Ole Miss’s 9-2 opening day win over Florida International. The sophomore second baseman went 2-4 with a pair of RBIs including a solo home run to left field to lead off the second inning in his first at...
It’s that time of year again – Black History Month. If you guessed Valentine’s Day, that’s okay. Cupid and his arrows usually over shadow black history every February. Please, I repeat please spare me your angry Wikipedia-researched, self-centered, my great great great great grandfather was a farmer letters. My grandmother is older than Jim Crow, for goodness sake. Let...
It’s February and the holiday season is in full swing. We are on the eve of the biggest holiday of the month. A day filled with love, hatred, happiness and sadness all packed into an eventful 24 hours. No, it’s not Valentine’s Day; it’s National Signing Day. Social media and television have turned the first Wednesday of February into an all-day affair filled...
Signing day is fewer than 24 hours away. Ole Miss is looking to top its star-studded 2013 class, in which they finished top ten in the country in every recruiting rankings service. Ole Miss is in on highly-rated defensive backs such as Deontay Anderson, Shyheim Carter and Carlos Becker. Becker is committed to Florida State currently, and will likely sign with the ‘Noles....
Ole Miss basketball coach Andy Kennedy woke up this morning knowing he would be facing a tough challenge playing without injured starters Sebastian Saiz and Martavious Newby, who were dealing with eye injuries. Then Frank Martin’s Number 24 South Carolina Gamecocks (17-1, 4-1 SEC) learned the hard way that playing a short-handed Ole Miss (12-6, 2-4 SEC) team...
