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Meet the New Ole Miss Mascot: Still a Rebel, More Bear-ish

By David KnowlesOct 14th 2010 – 4:54PM
AP | Getty Images

AP | Getty Images

(Oct. 14) -- What qualities best befit a Rebel? The University of Mississippi announced today that it had selected a successor mascot to "Colonel Reb," the confederate-identified caricature of Southern glory (Dixie) that had cheered on the school's sports teams since 1979, The Associated Press reported. University...

Houston Nutt Says Thanks but No Thanks to Kansas

By Terrance HarrisDec 8th 2009 – 2:42PM

A day after word leaked of mutual interest between Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt and Kansas, the veteran coach said Tuesday he is not interested the Jayhawks job. Nutt, who is in his second season leading the Ole Miss Rebels, said he wants to continue building what he has started at Ole Miss. The Rebels have put together...

Background on Ole Miss Rebels

University of Mississippi sports teams, originally known as the "Mississippi Flood", were renamed the Rebels in 1936 and compete in the fourteen-member Southeastern Conference of the NCAA's Division I.

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