commercialappeal.com - 7/29/2008
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Jerrell Powe was approved by the Southeastern Conference on Monday to play football at Ole Miss this fall, ending a three-year saga that took Powe to distant classrooms, nearly landed him in courtrooms and outlasted the coach who recruited him. In a letter to Ole Miss athletics director Pete Boone, SEC commissioner Mike Slive wrote that Powe had secured eligibility because he had successfully ...
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The SEC Is About To Get POWEnd
deepsouthsports.net —
... Ole Miss fans are akin to that Inigo Montoya dude from The Princess Bride. After four years of trial, tribulation, and illiteracy scandals, now that Jerrell Powe has been cleared to play SEC Football, most Reb fans don't know what the hell to do with their various lives. What partisan, college-football-related injustice should they champ'yun? ...
Rejoice! Football practices begin to open throughout the SEC
MVN Outsider —
... Ole Miss’s really, really, really long wait for defensive lineman Jerrell Powe came to an end last week when SEC commissioner Mike Slive informed Ole Miss AD Pete Boone that Powe had fulfilled all the obligations imposed by the NCAA and SEC, and would be eligible to compete this fall. At this point, Powe’s story is fairly well known among the college football-obsessed. Powe was a big-time, can’t-miss high school prospect who committed to play for Coach O and the Rebels back in 2005, but his high school academic record was a mess, and he ended up at Hargrave ...
Headlinin': The miseducation of Jerrell Powe, Part 736
Dr. Saturday —
... Illiteracy jokes ride again. Gifted but academically challenged defensive tackle Jerrell Powe travelled a long, well-chronicled road to eligibility at Ole Miss, but since the once-sought-after behemoth finally entered Oxford last fall, all accounts are that he's is making his way through. Until, that is, campus police showed up at Powe's apartment in the wee hours Sunday morning to tell him and his friends to ...
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