Out of Bounds Show PodcastPSU acting AD: Not close to hiring Paterno’s successor DALLAS — Penn State acting athletic director David Joyner said tonight that the university is not close to hiring a successor to Joe Paterno and likely would not meet a self-imposed deadline to name its next head coach by Jan. 3. “If we’re close and can…
Mississippi State’s cowbell-ringing tradition has its critics. But to most Bulldogs fans, that’s because outsiders just don’t understand. “All the schools that hate it beat the crap out of us in football,” said Tommy Martin, a former president of the MSU Alumni Association’s Nashville chapter. “If you’re not used to it, it can get you. But…
David Climer: Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen no stranger to job rumors One of these years, Dan Mullen will take his team to a bowl game and not have to deal with questions about his coaching future. Or maybe not. The way Mullen sees it, the end of each football season is ripe for speculation on just…
College football: Wake Forest not intimidated by Mississippi State NASHVILLE — Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe is aware the ACC doesn’t stack up well against the SEC, but he doesn’t believe the Demon Deacons will be outmanned in today’s Music City Bowl. Wake Forest (6-6) faces Mississippi State (6-6) in the 14th annual game at…
Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees should share MVP award I hate ties. OK, maybe tie-goes-to-the-runner is all right and tied shoelaces are a must, but I hate all other ties, from the ones you knot around your neck to the ones that occasionally pop up in sports, dangling there like perpetually uncompleted thoughts. I must make…
Dallas Cowboys should no longer be referred to as ‘America’s Team’ There needs to be an expiration date on the Cowboys being known as America’s Team. And it needs to be soon. How ’bout them Cowboys? Yeah, How about them? They have not been to the Super Bowl in nearly 16 years. It was their…
Baylor’s Griffin should go to the NFL SAN ANTONIO — Remember the Alamo Bowl, Baylor fans. Cherish every passing yard compiled Thursday night by quarterback Robert Griffin III, the school’s lone Heisman Trophy winner.Revel in the ridiculous touchdown run in which Griffin broke free from two Washington tacklers in the backfield and scrambled 24 yards…
FSU rallies past Notre Dame in Champs Sports Bowl ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—The day before his team took the field for its Champs Sports Bowl matchup with Notre Dame, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher acknowledged that he had higher hopes for his team than how they ended up in 2011. Loaded with talent and expectations in the preseason,…
Griffin, Baylor win record-breaking Alamo Bowl SAN ANTONIO (AP)—A thrilling, back-and-forth, record-shattering Alamo Bowl had barely ended when Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III already started hearing the chants. “One more year! One more year!” One more year? There’s still the craziness of what happened Thursday night to get through first. Griffin wasn’t dazzling in possibly…
My top-10 jobs in the state of Mississippi Madison Central – 1 championship in the last 17 years is not enough. But you have the support and the athletes to compete every year. One of the best booster clubs in the state. Meridian – Loaded with talent and you have support. Meridian will be player…
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