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The No. 16 Ole Miss Rebels travel to Gainesville, FL for a date with No. 4 Florida on Saturday night. Unfortunately for the Rebels and head coach Andy Kennedy, the Florida game simply couldn’t come at a worse time.


As the Rebels headed into a January 29 showdown against the defending national champion Kentucky Wildcats, Ole Miss basketball was looking brighter than ever. Coach Andy Kennedy’s No. 16 Ole Miss Rebels were 16-2 (6-0 SEC) and on the fast track to a chance at postseason success, off to their best start in program history.


The dream season of 2013 all came to a screeching halt on January 29, at least in the interim.


In a nationally televised game on ESPN, Rebel fans’ excitement was quickly tempered. Despite putting on a 17-0 run in the second half to pull within striking distance of a lead Kentucky held most of the game, the Rebels eventually lost 87-74. Bigger than the lost game though, two key Ole Miss reserves (F Aaron Jones and G Nick Williams) were lost to injuries.

Unfortunately for sophomore forward Aaron Jones, the following day tests revealed he had sustained a torn ACL. Prior to his season-ending injury, Jones had been averaging 16.9 minutes per game, 4.1 rebounds per game, and 3.5 points per game. The loss of Jones will hurt Ole Miss significantly.


Senior G Nick Williams tweaked a foot that had already caused him trouble earlier in the year. He is now listed as being out indefinitely. It’s an injury sure to deal a blow to Ole Miss, as the reserve guard had been coming off the bench to contribute an impressive 24.5 minutes per game and 9.4 points per game.


For an offense that relies heavily upon their Southeastern Conference (SEC) scoring leader G Marshall Henderson (19.3 ppg), significant scoring production from the bench has also been very important. Now minus Jones and Williams, other reserves for the Rebels will have to step up and do so in a hurry. As quickly as Saturday night in Gainesville, the Rebels must begin to see solid bench play facing a Gator club that has simply been dominant.


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Additionally, the loss of Jones will mean starting big men F Murphy Holloway and F Reginald Buckner will have to see more minutes. Anyone that follows basketball knows big men in the paint are prone to foul trouble. Consistent foul trouble from either Holloway or Buckner could spell major trouble for a club forced to bring two young players into the mix. Two freshmen big men, F Anthony Perez and F Terry Brutus, will now have to adjust quickly to SEC play as their new roles will begin Saturday against Florida and continue the rest of the season.


Speaking of Florida, through their first seven conference games they have won by 33, 28, 19, 31, 17, 35 and 39 points. At home they play even better against SEC opponents, boasting an average margin of victory of nearly 34 points per game.


Fortunately for Ole Miss, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The boys in red and blue just won’t see that light until they are out of Florida and back in Oxford.


The Rebels (RPI: 38, SOS: 118) will have ten SEC games remaining after playing Florida. Each of their ten remaining games will come against teams currently not ranked, with the exception of a No. 17 Missouri team that Ole Miss already defeated this year 64-49.

Assuming Ole Miss doesn’t pull off the upset at Florida, they will then have a record of 16-4 (6-2 SEC).


If the Rebels can win seven of their final ten conference games, they would be 23-7 (13-5 SEC) prior to even entering the SEC Basketball Tournament. Historically, the Rebels don’t play very well in the conference tournament. Even with a worst case first round loss there, finishing the regular season 23-7 (13-5 SEC) should lock Ole Miss with a date to the big dance.


If Ole Miss can find consistent bench production down the stretch, the Rebels are a group still very capable of making postseason runs in March.







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Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist and columnist who teaches journalism at the University of Mississippi. He can be reached at jbatkins@olemiss.edu.


The gathering at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday night seemed more like an old-time revival meeting than a labor rally, but maybe that’s because it signaled what could be a revival of the labor movement in the South and beyond.


Hundreds gathered inside Holmes Hall at the historic school to show support for workers at the giant Nissan plant in nearby Canton who want an election to determine if they should be represented by the United Auto Workers.


“We have to support Mississippi’s greatest resource—labor, its workforce,” said Dr. Isiac Jackson Jr., who chairs the newly formed Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan as well as serves as president of the General Baptist State Convention and Liberty Missionary Baptist Church.


A men’s choir stirred the crowd with renditions of “Look, Oh Happy Day” and “Praise Him” as preachers, workers and activists talked of labor rights as civil rights. Tougaloo, which serves a predominantly black student body, played a historic role in the 1960s as a meeting place where civil rights activists planned and developed movement strategies.


“This is historic,” said Father Jeremy Tobin, Mississippi’s premier labor priest and a speaker at the meeting. “For the first time we are reaching beyond the borders of Mississippi, taking it to the world.”


(Father Tobin, left, with Tougaloo College President Beverly Hogan

Father Tobin, left, with Tougaloo College President Beverly Hogan



Indeed, Brazilian labor leaders João Cayres and Vagner Freitas were at the meeting pledging their support. Nissan workers and activists have made their case in Brazil and other countries as well as at international auto shows. Tuesday’s meeting was reported live by the Ed Schultz Show on MSNBC.


Also rallying the crowd was actor Danny Glover. “I’m here with my brothers and sisters who are standing up,” Glover said. Mississippi civil rights martyr “Medgar Evers would have been here right with these workers. … We’re here today because we believe we will win.”


Nissan leader Carlos Ghosn has opposed organizing efforts at his U.S. plants in the past, even warning workers at the Smyrna, Tenn., plant that a pro-union vote was “not in your best interest or Nissan’s” during an earlier organizing effort there. Schultz said Tuesday that Ghosn told Reuters recently he is neutral in this latest UAW effort.


That’s not what Nissan workers in Canton are hearing, however. One worker after another Tuesday told of intimidating one-on-one sessions and group sessions with management, each of which is very anti-union and often threatening. The workers said they want their fellow workers to hear the other side, and they want an election free of fear.


“The fear and intimidation is so prominent I’ve become desensitized,” Nissan worker Wayne Walker said. “We’re tired of being threatened.”


“Allow the union to give their side and allow workers to hear both sides,” said Bishop Ronnie Crudup of New Horizon International Church. “We’re not going to stop. … Allow a free election.”


Huge banners in the hall proclaimed “One Voice, One Dream, One Team, Nissan Workers United”. Students from Tougaloo College and other nearby schools waved pro-labor signs. “Amens” and applause filled the air.


It was a revival all right, and the people on the stage were preaching to the choir.


Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist and columnist who teaches journalism at the University of Mississippi. He can be reached at jbatkins@olemiss.edu.







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All men can look back on their youth and tell you about a man, other than their father, who impacted their lives. Someone they looked up to. Someone they respected. Someone they wanted to be like. A man who was in their parents generation, but that didn’t matter. Someone you knew was on your team, no matter what.


For two generations of Oxford, Mississippi kids, that man was Mr. James Purvis, known to all as just Purvis. He was a Lafayette County native and a true legend, an icon and a character. A mentor, adviser, friend, and a man who practiced tough love before it was popular.


Purvis owed Purvis Recreation Center from the late 60′s until the mid 90′s. But to us it was just Purvis’… the pool hall. Not to be confused with those seedy joints made famous on TV. Oh, but it was a pool hall for sure. Six 8-foot Century tables and two 10-foot Snooker tables, pinball machines, and later, video games, snack machines and the well-know old red Coke machine with a big map of the United States on the wall beside it. Tradition was for two guys to each buy a Coke, and then you checked on the bottom of the 10-ounce bottles to see where it was bottled. The bottle that was the farthest from Oxford won, and the other guy paid for both.


The respect that all us guys had for Purvis is never ending, as witnessed by the quotes here from the boys, now grown, and parents themselves, and from the parents of those days … all those years ago in Oxford, Mississippi.


“James Purvis, a true icon of Oxford and most boys that grew up there. He let us play and grow up in his pool hall, but he also made sure we behaved and respected each other. I saw girls in there twice. Purvis never said anything about them being there, but he did make sure they were safe and treated well.”

–Carey Fortune


“Coolest. Man. Ever. And very kind. Whenever the “righteous” start talking about the evils of the world like a game of pool or betting on whose coke bottle was from the farthest off location, I think of Purvis and what a wonderful influence he was on my life. My mama was a tad Christian conservative and worried about my time in the pool hall. But I was an Eagle Scout, earned the God and Country Award, never missed Sunday School or MYF, and I can say my experiences in the pool hall were as good a place to learn about life and character as anything I experienced. A damn fine man in my book –– one of the very best.”

–James Coleman


“They should have received a stipend from the county for putting up with those hooligans, or at the very least a publc service award!”

–Betsy Ann Coffey


“Some of the fondest memories of Oxford I have revolve around Purvis’s poolhall. That was the coolest place to be.”

–Brent L. Pruet


“My dad considered him a very good friend and when I was a young girl/teen…I thought he was the best looking thing I had ever laid my eyes on!”

–Cindy Price Huntington


“The pool hall was the best place for young kids to gather and have a good time. Mr. Purvis and Mr. Baxter kept it a wholesome environment for all of us. What wonderful memories I have of that place. My high school days would not have been the same without that great gathering place. Rack ‘um Baxter still rings in my head.”

–Terry Threadgill

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“A lot of Mamas owe him a great deal for looking after our boys!”

–Kaye Hooker Bryant


“I don’t think icon says it best. If it hadn’t been for the pool hall, we would have gotten into more trouble than we did. He was always willing to teach the young folks how to catch and hit a baseball, shoot a basketball, run a rack of nine ball, draw a bottle, always good for some philosophy, and most importantly, he helped teach us how to grow up and be men. A large portion of my childhood memories include him in some form or fashion. So just a simple thanks big Purv for coming our way and to Ms. Bonnie for sharing him with us.”

–Sammie Knight


“When you’re growing up there are people that you learn are on your team, plain and simple. Purvis was on my team.”

–Joey Missiles







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McFerrin Inducted Into Ole Miss Hall Of Fame

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Women’s basketball captain named to the University’s highest honor.


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Ole Miss women’s basketball team captain Maggie McFerrin is one of 10 seniors at the University of Mississippi to be inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame, one of Ole Miss’ highest honors.


Provost Morris Stocks bestowed the honor Friday in a campus ceremony at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, noting that the selection is based on a student’s academic achievement, community service, extracurricular activities and potential for future success. The Ole Miss Hall of Fame has recognized students with outstanding achievements since 1930.


McFerrin, an exercise science major with a 3.67 career GPA, she was listed on the 2011-12 SEC Academic Honor Roll and was UM’s 2010-11 Outstanding Scholar Athlete. She is a member of the Order of Omega interfraternal leadership honorary, Gamma Beta Phi academic and service honor society, and National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She is also a member of the SAAC.


“Well I’m just so shocked, I had no idea,” said McFerrin. “It’s a big honor, and it’s been a lot of hard work. My parents, coaches, and everybody else are to thank for helping me get through everything. I’m so thankful.”


McFerrin has participated in a number of community service events during her career at Ole Miss with several different organizations including Reading with Rebels, tornado relief with Lafayette county, Leap Frog, Food Pantry, a Cystic Fibrosis walk, Azalea Gardens, Habitat for Humanity, the Salvation Army and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.


McFerrin, a 5-7 guard from Tupelo, Miss., is a three-year letterwinner on the women’s basketball team. During her career with the Rebels, McFerrin has played in 64 career games with 18 starts for Ole Miss. McFerrin is scheduled to graduate in May and is preparing to enroll in physical therapy school after graduation.







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Ajax Tonight: Ground Control to Major Max

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By Tad Wilkes, Nightlife & Lifestyles Editor


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Rocket 88 is back tonight, at Ajax Diner. Sometime collaborator Max Williams, he of the original Kudzu Kings, will be joining in, on lap steel and guitar, which always results in space oddities.


Oxford-based Rocket 88 is Rosamond Posey (guitar and vocals), Jamie Posey (guitar and vocals), Robert Chaffe (keys), Nate Robbins (bass), and Ryan Rogers (drums).








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Super Bowl XLVII: Impress Friends At Your Party

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Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers means lots of Super Bowl parties across the country on Sunday, February 3. In fact, Super Bowl parties include people that both love and hate the game of football, always fitting for great cinema.


Many fans will show up to Super Bowl XLVII parties ready to spit out random, meaningless facts to anyone that will listen. On the other hand many people head to Super Bowl parties afraid they won’t know enough about the game to even hold a conversation. In an effort to help those less informed party animals, I’ve drawn up a quick guide to some of the game’s biggest story lines. Mention a few of these on Sunday, and you’ll be sure to impress even the biggest fan.


Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, LA will feature a game between two teams, the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, that haven’t made Super Bowl appearances since 2001 and 1994 respectively. Further, Super Bowl XLVII will mark the first time since 2003 that the big game hasn’t featured Ben Roethlisberger, Eli Manning or Peyton Manning.


The most talked about Super Bowl XLVII headline is sure to be that of brother against brother. Baltimore Raven Head Coach John Harbaugh will face off against a San Francisco 49er team coached by none other than his own brother, Jim Harbaugh. The meeting will mark the first time two brothers, both NFL head coaches, will square off in a Super Bowl.


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However, there are several other stories at play that you’ll likely hear discussed at your Super Bowl party. Skim through the following story lines, and you’ll be primed to impress on Sunday.


Ten Super Sunday Story Lines to Know Before Your Super Bowl Party:


1) Harbaugh Bowl: Raven John Harbaugh versus 49er Jim Harbaugh to win Super Bowl XLVII

2) Raven LB great, Ray Lewis, bids farewell to a legendary NFL career. Will he go out on top?

3) The Ties That Bind Former Ole Miss Greats, Raven Michael Oher and 49er Patrick Willis

4) 49er QB Colin Kaepernick – the new “it” player in the NFL, will he have another big game?

5) Will 49er WR Randy Moss, self-proclaimed greatest WR to ever play the game, finally get a ring?

6) Does 49er K David Akers, 2012 NFL leader in missed FG (14), have what it takes in clutch time?

7) Is this Raven great S Ed Reed‘s swansong in Baltimore, soon to be an unrestricted free agent?

8) Defensive players that could end up Super Bowl MVP: 49er Patrick Willis, Raven Ed Reed

9) Super Bowl commercials cost an average of $4 million this year for a 30 second spot

10) Alicia Keys (National Anthem) and Beyonce (Halftime Performer) – Who will be better?


What will happen in Super Bowl XLVII?


Simply put, the Baltimore Ravens are a team of destiny in 2013.

Headed to their first Super Bowl in 12 years, head coach John Harbaugh’s Ravens are a team no NFL expert expected to end up in this year’s Super Bowl. Touted as an aging, injury-prone group with a quarterback (Joe Flacco) that has never been able to lead his team to the big game, Baltimore is the surprise club in Super Bowl XLVII.


Destiny though, it can all be defined by one of the most memorable fourth down plays in NFL history. Trailing the San Diego Chargers 16-13 with 1:59 remaining in regulation, the Ravens faced a crucial fourth down and 29. After the fourth down snap, QB Joe Flacco threw a short pass to RB Ray Rice. Incredibly, Rice managed to maneuver his way 30 yards down the field to gain what is now arguably one of the greatest fourth down conversions in NFL history.


Ray Rice’s divine fourth down conversion (watch it here) propelled the Ravens to an eventual overtime win, 16-13. Without the miraculous fourth down play, the Ravens would likely be sitting at home right now instead of preparing for the 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII. It was a play of epic proportions that can only be defined as one of destiny for the gritty Baltimore Ravens.


Predictions:

Baltimore Ravens 30 – San Francisco 49ers 24

Super Bowl MVP: Raven S Ed Reed







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Head shotPeyton Spear is currently a senior at Ole Miss majoring in Journalism with an emphasis in print.


Growing up in Los Angeles and most recently moving to Atlanta, he has seen and experienced a broad mix of athletics in both cities. Bringing this passion of sports to Oxford, he enjoys attending as many Ole Miss sporting events as he can. Upon graduating, he plans on writing for a large newspaper, network, professional team, or a university as a sports writer. Hotty Toddy!







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By Seph Anderson, The Sportswriter to The South, Seph Anderson, focuses his sports writing skills on covering timely Ole Miss & SEC news, among all things sports across the South.


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Ole Miss Rebel basketball is arguably in the midst of their best season in program history, as head coach Andy Kennedy tries to keep his squad on the track to postseason success. With continued focus, Ole Miss should find themselves entering the SEC Tournament riding a wave of momentum, just the opposite of the 1980-81 Ole Miss squad that went on to win the SEC Tournament Championship.


Currently at 17-3 (6-1 SEC) and ranked No. 16 in the nation, folks around Oxford have great expectations for this talented team come time for postseason play. While all Rebel eyes will eventually turn to the NCAA tournament, it will be interesting to see what type of run Ole Miss can first make in the SEC Tournament.


There have been solid Ole Miss teams spanning the history of Rebel basketball since its infancy in 1909, but former head coach Bob Weltlich’s 1980-81 Ole Miss club is one that will forever be remembered in Oxford for their unexpected run to capture the SEC Tournament crown on March


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7, 1981 against Dominique Wilkins and the Georgia Bulldogs.


The 1980-81 Rebels, while manned with Rebel stars still talked about today, didn’t have the type of SEC success in the regular season that the 2013 team is having right now. In fact, Weltlich’s Rebels posted only a 5-10 conference mark in the regular season as opposed to Kennedy’s No. 16 Rebels which currently sport a 6-1 conference record on the heels of a loss to Kentucky.


After the Rebels return from a daunting trip to No. 4 Florida on February 2, the remainder of conference play should provide ample opportunity to build upon a solid conference record.


While the 2012-13 Rebels have performed well during the regular season, the ’81 Rebels seemingly just got hot when it mattered most. Led by Rebel legends Sean Tuohy, Carlos Clark and Elston Turner among others, the ’81 squad tore through the 1981 SEC Basketball Tournament in Birmingham, AL. The ’81 Rebels upset No.10 Tennessee 81-71 in their opening game, defeated Vanderbilt 71-51 in the second round and hung on to knock off Dominique Wilkins’ Georgia Bulldogs in the championship game by a score of 66-62.


Former Ole Miss All-American and Houston Rocket John Stroud suggested to me in an exclusive interview:

“The 1981 team had great chemistry. They were very well-coached and had solid point guard play in Sean Tuohy and two future NBA players, Elston Turner and Carlos Clark. It was a full team.”


Furthermore, the ’81 Rebels were the first Ole Miss team to ever advance to the NCAA tournament (earning a bid as SEC Tournament champions). Ole Miss narrowly missed a chance to advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament in 1981, falling to the Kansas Jayhawks 69-66 in the opening round.

The ’81 Rebels and the ’13 Rebels are two teams who took and are taking entirely different paths into the SEC Tournament. While the ’81 Rebels were probably a more talented team top to bottom, the ’13 Rebels rely heavily upon guard Marshall Henderson and forward Murphy Holloway.


Rebel All-American and Houston Rocket John Stroud suggested of what this year’s team needs to do down the stretch to find similar success:


“They have to have better bench play with Henderson and Holloway being consistent from this point moving forward. The mark of great players is consistency.”


Bench play and consistency are two elements Andy Kennedy’s Rebels must possess in the months of February and March if they wish to take advantage of the opportunity at hand this year. More talented teams, like the ones Ole Miss will see as they advance in postseason play, will make it more difficult for the Rebels to rely so heavily upon Marshall Henderson. That being said, Kennedy must find consistent bench contribution if his team wants to play well into the month of March.


For two Ole Miss basketball teams with at least the potential to be the only Ole Miss teams to ever be crowned SEC Tournament champions, the paths to the postseason couldn’t be any different.







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