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Cheating Works Out Well For Alabama
Grabbing someone's facemask and pulling on it is still against the rules, right?...

Mississippi State Trounces Texas A&M, Alabama And Ole Miss Up Next
If you're tired of insufferable SEC fans trying to convince you that their perennial bottom-dwellers could run through any other conference, you can say whatever you want about the SEC East this year. The West division, however, is an insane collection of talent. ...

This Catch Gets Six Actual Points, Many More Style Points
It's likely to be part of a losing effort because their defense is sad, but Texas A&M injected a brief pause into their beating at the hands of Mississippi State with this pretty little touchdown....

Memphis And Ole Miss Brawl After Late Hit; Kicker Only One Ejected
Ole Miss handled Memphis 24-3 last night, but things got a little heated last night when Ole Miss kicked off early in the first quarter following a touchdown drive....

Birds Everywhere In Columbia For Tense Missouri-South Carolina Battle
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MSU's Dillon Day Suspended For Stomping Shit Out Of Two LSU Players
Per Brett McMurphy, the SEC has suspended Mississippi State senior center Dillon Day for one game for "multiple flagrant and unsportsmanlike acts," after he performed flying stomps to the guts and groin areas of two LSU players on Saturday....

Exasperated Vanderbilt Fan Throws Shirt And Hat Onto Field During Game
One Vanderbilt fan was so sick of the Commodores' performance in a 41-3 loss to Ole Miss that he walked down the stands and threw his shirt and hat onto the field, then walked away, shirtless and presumably still fuming....

Townsfolk Embark On Thrilling Mission To Remove Bucket From Bear's Head
For weeks, the people of Perry Township, Penn., had been crossing paths with a black bear that had its head stuck in a plastic bucket. The bear became known as Bucket Bear, and the townspeople's concerns became so great that they made a Facebook page dedicated to saving Bucket Bear from his bucket, ...

Jets CB Dimitri Patterson Has Been Missing Since Friday
Jets cornerback Dimitri Patterson has been missing since Friday's game at MetLife Stadium against the Giants. He was present for meetings, a walk through, and the pre-game meal Friday, but was a no-show come game time. The Jets have not been able to speak with Patterson directly but his agent, Dre...

Challenger Emerges For Worst First Pitch Ever: Miss Texas
Replicating this to any degree of exactitude could actually be a contestant's talent routine in a beauty pageant. Miss Texas Monique Evans's form, a horse mascot, and most importantly, the perfect watching-a-car-drive-by reaction, all make this an incredibly rare and difficult feat. ...

Rob Manfred Is Your Next MLB Commissioner
After some confusion and sidetalks between Bud Selig and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, leader of an insurrectionist element among MLB owners, baseball has its successor to Selig: Rob Manfred will take over as the next commissioner after Selig retires in January....

One Of These Three Men Will Be The Next MLB Commissioner
Bob Nightengale at USA Today has a big scoop: the field of finalists for MLB Commissioner has been narrowed down to three, and one of them is a pretty huge surprise. There are two of Bud Selig's top deputies, and, somewhat out of nowhere, the chairman and minority owner of the Red Sox....

Ole Miss QB Says Players Go To Bed Hungry
In late March, UConn's Shabazz Napier caused a stir when he said there were some nights he went to bed hungry. People scoffed at the idea of a star player not being able to find an open dining hall or afford food on his own, but a couple weeks later–total coincidence on the timing–the NCAA changed i...

Cruise Control: The Loopy Terror Of <em>Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol</em>
Tom Cruise is not like us. This was always pretty evident, but as recently detailed in this great Amy Nicholson L.A. Weekly story, it became inescapable fact around 2005, when he jumped on Oprah Winfrey's couch. That story is full of convincing evidence that the whole couch episode didn't happen t...

SE Missouri Redhawks Tweet Weird And NSFW Bathroom Picture
So, um, we're not really sure what happened here, but a few minutes ago the official Twitter account of Southeast Missouri athletics sent out the seemingly innocuous tweet above. Clicking on that link, however, did not bring one to the live results for today's track meet, but to a very weird picture...

Missouri's Dorial Green-Beckham Kicked Off Team
Tigers star WR Dorial Green-Beckham was dismissed from Missouri's football program today, after the release of a police report concerning an allegedly burglary and assault incident from this past weekend. ...

Police: Victim Pressured To Not Press Charges Against Green-Beckham
Columbia police announced today that Missouri star wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham will not be arrested in connection with an incident that occurred this weekend, when Green-Beckham allegedly forced his way into an apartment trying to locate his girlfriend and injured one of the residents. That v...

Worst Intentional Walk Attempt Ever Becomes Walk-Off Home Run
Auburn lost to Ole Miss on a walk-off home run in the 13th inning Friday night on a pitch that was supposed to be the first of four intentional balls. Unfortunately, Auburn's Jay Wade threw an unintentional meatball down the middle of the plate and Ole Miss won 8-5....

Missouri Basketball Player Reportedly Arrested Twice In One Day
Zach Price had a pretty bad Thursday....

Mississippi Mayoral Hopeful Unveils Weaponized-Cannabis Platform
Meet Gwendolyn Ward Osborne Chapman. She's running for mayor of Jackson, Miss. Reader Larry alerted us to Chapman's appearance on WAPT the other night, and needless to say, after watching this political statement, we're fully behind her campaign....