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KYZIAH PRUITT #13 WR Freshman 5' 10", 205 lbs throws a vicious right handed towel at the 10 second mark. I dare you to watch this only once. Hilarious

Arkansas has suspended two starting defensive backs for reportedly flirting with Mississippi State cheerleaders before the Razorbacks' 52-6 loss Saturday. Razorbacks coach Chad Morris announced the suspensions Monday at his media conference, citing "unacceptable behavior."

Call it what you will, but this game against Mississippi was a war. They gave Alabama their toughest challenge so far this season, especially the tough Bulldog defense. And in this game, Alabama won, but didn’t look great in doing it. For the comfort of the Mississippi State fans, an objective writer must admit that Miss. State was not just playing Alabama, but the refs. Two critical mistakes could have made the game more exciting and perhaps made the game much closer. The first was was Damien Harris’ no called fumble that clearly was a fumble and the second was...

UConn's record 111-game winning streak came to a startling end when Mississippi State pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in women's basketball history, stunning the Huskies 66-64 on Morgan William's overtime buzzer beater in the national semifinals Friday night.

For the first time in the 145 years of college football, a 12-member playoff selection committee has set to convene. It will spend Monday and Tuesday in the arduous seven-stage process of tabulating its inaugural weekly top 25, and it will release that list on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. ET. That will begin a much-anticipated process of seven weekly meetings in Grapevine, Texas, near the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The meetings will run Monday-Tuesday into early December, then the final announcement of the playoff field will come on Sunday, Dec. 7. That announcement will name the four teams which will...

Michigan has fired football coach Rich Rodriguez after his third season ended with a school-record 38-point loss in the Gator Bowl, Fox 2 TV in Detroit is reporting. The report comes after Rodriguez met with athletic director Dave Brandon earlier Tuesday. Members of the football team are scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday, according to another report out of Ann Arbor. Michigan's Gator Bowl loss to Mississippi State knocked Rodriguez's overall record to 15-22 with college football's winningest program. Michigan will owe the coach $2.5 million to buy out the final three years of his contract.

Michigan has fired football coach Rich Rodriguez after his third season ended with a school-record 38-point loss in the Gator Bowl, Fox 2 TV and the Detroit Free Press are reporting. The report comes as Rodriguez is meeting with athletic director Dave Brandon on Tuesday. Members of the football team are scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Rodriguez traditionally holds the meeting the night before classes resume each semester. Rodriguez's wife, Rita, left the building shortly before 5 p.m. and told reporters she had been told nothing about her husband's job. Michigan's Gator Bowl loss to Mississippi...

COLUMBUS, Ind. -- An Indiana property owned by Tony Stewart will be used to study habitats and deer-related issues through a partnership between the NASCAR driver and Mississippi State University. Stewart is turning his 414-acre Hidden Hollow Ranch into a "laboratory" for biologists in a partnership with the university and the Catch-A-Dream Foundation, which grants hunting and fishing experiences to children who have a life-threatening illness...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -Alabama coach Mike Shula was fired after a 6-6 season that ended with three straight losses, including a defeat by state rival Auburn. Athletic director Mal Moore said Monday that defensive coordinator Joe Kines would serve as interim head coach. The firing was first reported by The Tuscaloosa News on its Web site. Shula, a former Alabama quarterback, led the Crimson Tide to a 10-2 season last year and a Cotton Bowl victory. But his teams were winless in four tries against Auburn. The Tigers beat the Crimson Tide 22-15 on Nov. 18. Shula said he was...

Jerious Norwood backed up his coach's big talk. Norwood scored four touchdowns in his final game at Mississippi State, leading the host Bulldogs to a 35-14 victory against rival Mississippi on Saturday in the Egg Bowl. His big performance came after coach Sylvester Croom spiced up the rivalry when he said ''we're going to beat their butt,'' then stuck by those strong words in the days before the game. Norwood rushed for 204 yards and three touchdowns on 34 carries, and caught a 5-yard scoring pass from Mike Henig in leading the worst offense in the Southeastern Conference to 409...

Starkville, Miss. — There’s really no way to describe this place. How do you describe nothing? Think of it like this: Alongside this far-flung outpost, Auburn, Ala., seems as big and bustling as New York, N.Y. In a way, it’s nice that Mississippi State plays football. Without the mid-sized stadium rising above this low-slung burg, you’d miss Starkville altogether and go motoring off into Arkansas. With gas the price it is, who can afford such an overshot? Other means of transport are problematic. You can’t fly into Starkville itself. You have to land at the ambitiously named Golden Triangle Regional...

A push by Mississippi State and local economic development officials to tie in university research efforts into commercial opportunities paid off Monday with the announcement that a Pennsylvania company will partner with a local firm in developing silocon carbide applications for military and electronics markets. II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa. is partnering with SemiSouth Laboratories, which operates in the Ralph E. Powe Center for Innovative Technology in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park. SemiSouth's development as a company out of research conducted at MSU proved to be a major incentive in luring II-VI (pronounced "two-six") to Starkville,...

Walker sentenced to 25 years in prison By CATHERINE RAGSDALE/Starkville Daily News Former Mississippi State football star Dontay Walker was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison and fined $2,000 for his conviction last week on drug charges. Last week, a seven-woman, five-man jury convicted Walker on charges of possession of more than an ounce of marijuana and possession of more than an ounce of crack cocaine. Walker was originally arrested for possession of more than an ounce of crack cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute, but the jury saw fit to drop the intent clause. Mississippi state law...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - The Confederate emblem on the state flag has again cost Mississippi the chance to host a national sporting event. Three years after the NCAA denied Delta State its bid to host the Division II Swimming and Diving Championships, Mississippi State lost an invitation to serve as a host site for a prominent Division I regular season basketball tournament in November. END EXCERPT The rest of the article can be found here