As the Ole Miss baseball team continues their fall practices, a familiar face returns to Oxford this semester. The former Ole Miss first baseman, Sikes Orvis, is back in Oxford finishing his journalism degree and plans to graduate from the University in December. Orvis said he hopes his degree will allow him to stay associated with baseball long after his career is over. The...
Author Archives: Browning Stubbs
In South Carolina, the recognizable beeps from the National Weather Service’s Emergency Alert System blared through the speakers and warnings of flooding from Hurricane Joaquin followed. Preparation for the storm began. Rainfall lasted days throughout the state, flooding many areas quickly. As of Thursday, 17 deaths had been reported, hundreds were still without power...
One in five Americans (including cancer patients) cannot afford to fill the prescriptions doctors write for them. Why is it that Americans pay high prices for prescription drugs? While there are many factors as to why healthcare is expensive, you should be aware that a company buying “underpriced” generic drugs and then astronomically raising them is a somewhat...
WHEN YOU SPEND $10,000 ON A GOLF CART Because you stole one and that’s the price of your bond. On Tuesday, two Pass Christian firefighters were arrested for stealing a golf cart. According to the Sun Herald, the initial act was caught on video by the neighborhood from which they stole it. The police chief described the event as “sickening.” The two men were taken...
Many decade-old tents have had to pull up their roots and relocate after new regulations made it difficult to hold spots in the Grove. At the beginning of the 2015 football season, the Athletics Department implemented several new changes to tailgating in the Grove. The biggest alteration broke the tradition of spot-saving the day before gameday by clearing the Grove...
Dylan Rubino (@drubino11), Cody Thomason (@thecodythomason), and Browning Stubbs (@BrowningStubbs) 1. The injury bug is going around for the Rebels. Where do you see that having the biggest impact for the team going forward? Dylan – The defense as a whole is something I’m keeping an eye on for the rest of the season. Losing senior middle linebacker C.J. Johnson...
Anyone looking for a “coming-of-old-age” story this fall can find this new-again trend in “This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!” by Jonathan Evison. At 6 p.m., the author and his latest book will appear at Square Books. The tour revolves around “This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!,” a tale of an elderly widow who takes a cruise to Alaska in honor of her recently...
