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Short, sweet, and to the point: It's the Thursday morning linkage. • Today's position-by-position preview focuses on the offensive line . Specifically, left tackle Derek Sherrod . • Here's the ever-growing notebook from Wednesday's football happenings. Off to campus. Busy day planned...
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Sorry for the delay in getting this out there, but here's the notebook of today's football happenings that you'll read in tomorrow's Clarion-Ledger . And trust me, the reporters are getting as tired of the monotony as Sylvester Croom , as evidenced by his quote in the fifth paragraph. STARKVILLE — With a week and a half left before Mississippi State’s season-opener, ...
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Back from the first half of practice over at the Palmeiro Center. Rain drove the team indoors today, and it appears as if it'll only work out for about two hours inside. State welcomed a new member to the squad — No. 54, Trevor Stigers . He received certification from the NCAA Clearinghouse today. He was in full pads and ready to go, as the NCAA's acclimation period doesn't ...
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When Mississippi State coach Sylvester Croom has his first radio call-in show Monday night, a familiar voice will be missing. Jack Cristil , the longtime voice of the Bulldogs, won't be doing the call-in shows this year. (But yes, he'll still be doing everything else.) The 82-year-old Cristil, who lives in Tupelo, said the drive back-and-forth just got to be too much ...
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Louisiana Tech coach Derek Dooley just called the Starkville Bureau of The Clarion-Ledger , and there's a sentence I never dreamed I would type. I'm doing some work for a Monday story that'll hopefully show how Louisiana Tech, its team and its fans, is preparing for the first visit of a Southeastern Conference team to Ruston, La., since the Woodrow Wilson administration. He had some ...
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Yours truly arrived back home in Mississippi on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006. A day before, a surprising St. Louis team routed the Padres in San Diego, giving me at least a litle bit of hope that the Cardinals might have something left in the tank. That Saturday, State played host to West Virginia, and it was the perfect scenario for me: I watched from the press box, but when the game was over, I ...
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Keeping with tradition, here is a notebook from Tuesday's practice: STARKVILLE — An illness sidelined three members of Mississippi State’s offensive line for Tuesday’s practice, but they are expected to return soon. Starting right guard Michael Gates and backup center D.J. Looney were sidelined with tonsillitis. Mark Melichar , who is battling for the starting job ...
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Shortly after today's Mississippi State practice began, a gold-colored Buick drove up the makeshift drive that overlooks the practice field. A man walked out, opened his trunk, looked in there for a minute, and closed the trunk. It was Ron Polk . The former Mississippi State baseball coach — and now UAB volunteer baseball coach — was back in town for a day. He ...
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Copious linkage this morning. It's the kind of linkage that kept me at the Bryan Building til half past late last night. • The news of the day belonged to offensive coordinator Woody McCorvey , who is out after undergoing surgery Monday morning. • In the third installment of our position-by-position season preview, we look at the defensive line and Kyle Love . ...
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What follows is a long report of news and notes from today's Mississippi State practice. It'll be on clarionledger.com soon, but I figured I might as well throw it to The Blog beforehand. Enjoy. STARKVILLE — A year after a promising true freshman season was cut short by a broken leg suffered in a scrimmage, a redshirt freshman season seems to be nicely suiting Eric ...
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Shortly after 4 o'clock this afternoon, Mississippi State coach Sylvester Croom gathered his team around during its pre-practice drills to tell them that offensive coordinator Woody McCorvey was out of surgery, and that it went OK. Moments earlier, we spoke with Croom, who was wearing his BlackBerry on his waistband waiting for the call. (Turns out, the surgery was this ...
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Mississippi State offensive coordinator Woody McCorvey underwent an unspecified surgery this morning, according to a news release issued by the school moments ago. The release said the McCorvey family asked "that the planned medical procedure remain confidential and private." According to the release, McCorvey is expected to be out for the rest of the week but is ...
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It's time for linkage today, the first day of fall semester classes here at Mississippi State. It's also the first day of the next-to-last full week before MSU opens its 2008 season Aug. 30 at Louisiana Tech. Since classes start, the practice schedule falls into more of a routine — 4 o'clock every afternoon. And only one practice per day. That's good for ...
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I had intended to share this quote in this morning's Clarion-Ledger . But given the space allotted to the Sunday notebook, and with all the details about the Saturday scrimmage that had to be included in it, there really wasn't any room. There certainly wasn't any room to share it in its entirety, so for that, we turn to the infinite depths of The Blog. It's a quote from Wesley ...
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Mississippi State has sent out its news release on today's scrimmage, which includes statistics. But since the media wasn't allowed to watch today's event, I was kind of in the dark about what all happened here. So I just got off the phone with the release's author, team spokesman Joe Galbraith , and here's the best way to characterize what happened: The first and second teams each ...
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Mississippi State held its second scrimmage of the preseason this afternoon at Scott Field. I'd love to tell you what happened at it, but the only way to gain admission into the joint was to be a former player or a recruit. Aside from the team and its entourage, they were the only ones who watched this scrimmage that was closed to the public and the media. MSU coach Sylvester Croom ...
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The Associated Press' preseason college football poll is out, and Georgia is the favorite to win the national title. Four Southeastern Conference teams are in the top 10 and six are in the top 25. Mississippi State is in there, too — just in the 'receiving votes' category. The Bulldogs received four votes, good for 18th among teams outside the top 25. In the coaches' poll, ...
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On the eve of Mississippi State's second scrimmage of the preseason, coach Sylvester Croom was pleased with the way his team worked for over two hours today inside the Palmeiro Center. "We had a lot of zip and enthusiasm today," Croom said. "It seems to work that way when you come inside where it's air conditioned, and you've got shoulder pads and shorts on. But I liked the ...
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I hope you've read by now this morning's feature on Mississippi State defensive end Tim Bailey , the Iraq War veteran who is part of a massive new advertising campaign for the National Guard. When and where will we see the Bailey ads? Hard to say right now, according to Jim Boyle , the management supervisor of the Guard account for LM&O, the Arlington, Va.-based advertising ...
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Former Mississippi State AD Larry Templeton has chimed in on Verne Lundquist 's signing a 15-year deal to continue to televise Southeastern Conference games. (Lundquist will bring CBS with him, too.) Why did Templeton chime in? A) I called him. B) AD or not an AD, he remains in the thick of the SEC's TV negotiations. Templeton wouldn't say much, mainly because the ...
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