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Senior sports writer/columnist for the Daily Journal/DJournal.com ( @DJournalnow ). Host of the Prep Rally podcast. Occasional actor. Curator of sad fan pix.
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Serial killers have established their own national holiday. It's called Ted Bunday.
Plz do not unfollow me, thx.
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Kahnen Daniels rushed for 121 yards and a TD as
@WP_Athletics
edged Tupelo 21-20. His offensive teammates crashed the postgame interview.
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Saban: "I've never been happier in my life."
Rinaldi: "Never?"
Saban: "Never!"
Rinaldi: "You have children…"
Saban: "NEVER."
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UPDATE: The MHSAA executive committee just finished meeting, and all I know at the moment is that the high school sports seasons in Mississippi have NOT been canceled. Details to come soon.
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Tupelo DL Jacarius Clayton signs with Mississippi State. He originally committed to MSU and then flipped to Ole Miss this past summer.
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I just got a hand-written note in the mail from Biggersville football player Goldman Butler, thanking me for a story I recently wrote about him. You don’t see that sort of thing these days from adults, never mind teens. It made my morning.
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@BHSGoLions
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BREAKING: High school teams can get back to work June 1 | No inter-squad competitions allowed this summer.
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"Just look at the flowers." – Carol
"Lots of cookies." – Carol
I love this woman.
#WalkingDead
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The MHSAA executive committee met today, and for now it is sticking with the June 1 restart date for team activities.
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FINAL: Saltillo 9, Pascagoula 5. Tigers win the Class 5A state title in three games and end a 49-year championship drought.
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BREAKING: Richard Russo has been approved as head football coach at Tishomingo County, his alma mater. He was previously head coach at Independence.
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Just headed to work. RT
@wrekoniz3
: Spotted in Daytona Beach. 50 yards in land, Atlantic Ave. SHARK?!?!
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Jack Cristil's casket was open before the service. In his left hand he held a microphone, and in his right hand ... a cigarette.
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VIDEO: Hannah Campbell drains a long 3-pointer to give New Site a 54-53 win over Saltillo.
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Well,
@GenePhelps
has left the building, heading into retirement. He is truly the best. This place won't be the same.
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Good news: The MHSAA executive committee meeting has finally broken up. We should have some news here soon.
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Here is Macie Phifer’s game-clinching basket and the ensuing celebration.
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@IngomarBKB
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BREAKING: Chris Vandiver has been hired as boys basketball coach at South Pontotoc. | He was head coach there previously, 2005-10.
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CROOTIN: I’ve just been told that Holly Springs forward Derek Fountain has signed with Mississippi State.
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For the first time in my illustrious career, I get to write “by pretending to urinate like a dog” in a sports story.
#EggBowlforever
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The real MVPs are high school coaches who still use MaxPreps because they know ScorebookLive is utter trash.
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BREAKING: Corinth has promoted defensive coordinator Justin Dye to head football coach.
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BREAKING: As expected, the MHSAA executive committee has voted to move the basketball championships to Jackson this year. Also, the quarterfinals will be played at high school campus sites, with the higher seeds hosting.
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FINAL: Tupelo Christian 4, Resurrection Catholic 0. Eagles are the Class 1A state champions; second title in program history.
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MSU went from unranked to No. 1 faster than any team in college football history.
http://t.co/JFPKIU2DUT
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Beating the reigning national champs on the road one week, then losing to an Arkansas team that had lost 20 straight SEC games the next? Say what you will about MSU football, but it knows how to stay on brand.
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Oh but there’s gonna be a Target in Starkville this Saturday ... on Dan Mullen’s back. Thank you, I’m here all week, pls tip your waiter.
Mullen asked about living in Mississippi: "I don't know. I work. I get up, go to work and go home." Says Megan did a lot of online shopping. He says there wasn't a Target or stores like that in Starkville.
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2024 MR. BASEBALL WINNERS:
• 1A: Gehrig Shinall, Pine Grove
• 2A: Landon Harmon, East Union
• 3A: Mason McMillin, Mooreville
• 4A: Ty Long, Ripley
• 5A: Cole Richardson, South Jones
• 6A: Camden Clark, West Jones
• 7A: Lake Reed, Tupelo
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BREAKING: Houston has hired Itawamba AHS offensive coordinator Baylor Dampeer as its next head football coach. Story coming shortly.
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FINAL: (G) Belmont 56, Kossuth 55, OT. Macie Walker had the assist on Brooklyn Hodum’s go-ahead basket with 22 seconds left. Kossuth missed a 3 at the buzzer. That’s 12 state titles for Belmont.
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Mac McAnally warming up, gonna sing the National Anthem today.
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COACHING NEWS: Booneville has hired Kevin Williams – the school’s head baseball coach – as offensive coordinator. Williams last coached football as Corinth’s OC under Doug Jones.
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The Jarrian Jones news provides further evidence that most high school kids don’t commit to schools, they commit to coaches.
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FINAL: (G) Ingomar 53, Biggersville 38. Lady Falcons win the 1A title and earn their 12th gold ball.
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FINAL: Pine Grove 5, Stringer 4. Anaston Christian walks it off and gives Panthers their first state title.
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FINAL: Saltillo 5, Neshoba Central 4 in 9 innings. Lady Tigers dethrone the 9-time defending champs. Saltillo will face George County on Wednesday in Game 1 of the 5A finals.
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Had a good talk with these two today. Look for the story in Sunday’s Journal.
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@BHS_LadyCards
@AthleticsTCHS
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The MHSAA is holding firm to a June 1 restart date. | Executive committee will meet again in 10 days to reassess.
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The female equivalent of a bromance is a homance.
I will not be taking any questions at this time.
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What a stunning turn of events. Shugars hit that shot and Ingomar’s bench cleared in celebration as Biggersville called timeout. Clock hit all zeros, but refs were right to add time. And Cam Smith … man.
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Those Ole Miss powder blues are just frickin beautiful.
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No hospitality room at the Coliseum this week, due to COVID. Man, I’m gonna miss those nabs and lukewarm sodas.
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If you can’t show compassion to someone who is different from you and/or has beliefs different from yours, then something inside you is fundamentally broken.
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COACHING NEWS: Clayton Dodd has been promoted to head softball coach at East Webster. He replaces Lee Berryhill, who recently retired.
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Lordt, Jaeden Hill just bulldozing people on this TD run. Tupelo 21, Whitehaven 0, 10:22/2Q.
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FINAL: (B) Tupelo 79, Horn Lake 74. Golden Wave erase a 15-point deficit in the final 3 minutes.
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FINAL: (G) Pine Grove 44, Simmons 26, Class 1A girls championship. Lady Panthers win their THIRD straight state title.
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Dan Mullen named Associated Press coach of the year.
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With a new coach in place, Oxford’s volleyball team will look to Catherine Bianco to lead on the court this coming season.
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AND TODAY MISSISSIPPI RULED THE FOOTBALL UNIVERSE AND Y'ALL CAN JUST DEAL WITH IT
#footballmageddonMS
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MSU/Ole Miss getting back-to-back nattys is even cooler than when their football teams were both ranked in the top 3.
#CWS
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Pine Grove’s Ellie Fryar, at 5-foot-3, was just guarding 6-foot Roslyn Rice in the post. Did a pretty good job, actually.
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Starkville coach Chris Jones on Banks: "He's going to be great for our players." Jones said he and Banks share very similar defensive philosophies.
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Drinking game: Every time
@matt_laubhan
says “tornadic activity” on Wednesday, take a shot. If the tornado doesn’t kill you, the liquor will.
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A fourth straight title for Pine Grove’s girls. Soon as the final buzzer sounded, senior Loren Elliott raced over to coach Katie Bates to give her a big hug.
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COACHING NEWS: J.C. Hayles has been approved as the new boys basketball coach at West Union. He’s been the girls coach there the last 3 years, with a record of 61-28. He will continue to coach the Lady Eagles as well.
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It’s 2:03 p.m. and I’m told the MHSAA executive committee is still meeting. We could have all watched “Gone With the Wind” by now.
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I currently am without cable, so I can’t watch Ole Miss-MSU, but who needs Comcast when 15 sports writers are tweeting play-by-play?
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STORY: After working under the likes of Jeff Norwood and Craig Lauderdale, DJ Burress feels he’s ready to lead his own program. He has been hired as Smithville’s boys basketball coach.
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An MHSAA official tells me a decision on the suspension of competition will come “closer to the return-to-school date,” which right now is Monday, April 20.
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Random thought: I’d love to see a mid-range jump shooting competition between New Albany’s Michael Smith and Booneville’s Trey McKinney. I’d watch that all day.
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Katie Beth Hall shot lights out for Ingomar in a 58-33 win over Simmons in the 1A semifinals. Her secret? Prayer and loaded tea.
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@IngomarBKB
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Very weird to be at Ingomar for a playoff game and the gym isn’t packed to the gills. Damn you, COVID!
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Digging up old tweets posted by a star athlete when they were a relatively unknown teenager is not journalism.
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BREAKING: Tupelo has approved the promotion of Scott Gann to head baseball coach. He’s been on staff since 2019. Before that, Gann was HC at Houston, where he won a state title in 2016.
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FINAL: (B) Tupelo 94, Shannon 50. London Fields had 19 points for Tupelo, while Braxton Bishop had 18 and Gavin Shannon 15.
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Byhalia has a player named Ladarius Rucker. What, is he lead singer for LaHootie and the LaBlowfish?
I’ll show myself out, good night.
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Fun fact: Since Biggersville began playing football in 1971, it has won 224 games. Of those wins, 19.2% (43) of them have come over the last four seasons (8% of total seasons played).
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Remember on the
#DJPreps
Football Preview Show when we wondered what kind of dance moves Clint Hoots might have? Well, he showed us after Friday’s playoff win over Corinth. VIDEO:
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Raymond’s Tremaine Dixon is a very good young player, but he is no longer guarding Jesus Ruedas because Ruedas was stealing his lunch money.
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COACHING NEWS: Alcorn Central has hired Josh Harrison to lead the boys basketball team. | Belmont grad has been at Oxford Middle the last 4 years.
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@ACbearsbball
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