Commitment to Egg-cellenceMississippi State and Ole Miss meet for the 100th time in football on Thursday night. For the sixth straight year, all eyes will be on the Egg Bowl because it's the only college football game on TV. (Spies tell Dr. …
Do We Really Have To Talk About The Egg Bowl?While Ole Miss fans sweat out Mississippi State and find themselves forced to pull for Arkansas on Friday, Slate's Allen Barra explains the BCS' big flaw: Trying to fix something that wasn't broken.
Drug Testing in the NFLMalcolm Gladwell writes in The New Yorker: "Despite the N.F.L.'s claims that it is concerned about the health of the players, it is more concerned about the health of the N.F.L. Football's governors make a distinction between natural violence and …
Pigskin Prognosticator On ProwlOK, so Dr. S was correct when he predicted Southern Miss would burst TCU's BCS bubble. That's all behind us now, because it's time for Dr. S to tell you what's gonna happen on Saturday ...
Horny Toads in Hub CityJust as Dr. S predicted, Thursday night's TCU-Southern Miss game (6:30 p.m., ESPN) will be for the Conference USA championship and more. TCU still has an outside shot at a BCS bowl bid if it beats USM. The Horned Frogs …
Bucs Cut The CancerThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers are so sick of Keyshawn Johnson that the team deactivated the receiver on Tuesday. He will still get paid, but he won't play for the last six games of the season. If the Bucs could, they …
Kobe Dress CodeJust when you thought the Kobe Bryant case couldn't get any more ridiculous, the sheriff of Eagle County, Colo., has told his employees they can't wear some new Kobe-related T-shirts to work. Whatever happened to the uniforms and shiny badges …
High School GridThe playoffs start in some divisions of Mississippi high school football on Friday night. Just in time for that, Dr. S has found a cool new site, http://www.mississippi.ihigh.com/, which has news, features and, best of all, updated scores. Dr. S …
The NBA's Worst Coach?It's NBA time again. The New Orleans Hornets have a new coach, Tim Floyd, a Hattiesburg native. Slate's Sam Eifling wonders why the NBA's worst coach has a new job.
Was Rush Right?Rush Limbaugh quit his ESPN NFL pre-game show because the network couldn't take the heat it caught after Limbaugh said Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb is overrated and there's a media conspiracy afoot to make sure a black quarterback is …
Who Da (Next) Man?Who's going to replace Jackie Sherrill as Mississippi State's football coach? The rumor mill is grinding overtime. (Speaking of rumors, word is that Sherrill agreed to retire as part of a deal to soften NCAA sanctions against MSU.) Dr. S …
Let's Get Series-ousThe 100th anniversary World Series starts Saturday with the Florida Marlins playing the New York Yankees. Talk about unlikely matchups. Dr. S was pulling for the Red Sox, himself, but he was NOT pulling for the Cubs. The only good …
Red Sox or Cubs?Slate's Seth Stevenson asks the burning question: Red Sox or Cubs? Dr. S says, Red Sox, naturally because the Cubs are evil (and cheap and incompetent, until this year). Dr. S was dismayed to see Pedro Martinez knocking down 100-year-old …
The Young And The Reb-lessOle Miss called off its online mascot vote on Thursday, apparently because the only people voting in the non-binding election were Mississippi State fans. Also it seems that the artist who submitted the "new" Rebel Bruiser mascot forgot to mention …
Rebel, RebelBreaking news: Dr. S' spies in Oxford claim — and The Daily Mississippian hints — that Mississippi State students and fans have broken into Ole Miss' computer system and are voting for "Rowdy Rebel" (aka Skinhead Colonel Reb) in the …