http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/top-25/rankings/2012/2613094.html

This week's non-conf opponent, Louisville, dropped out after a rough week. The Cards should easily be our toughest mid-week test of the season to date. Let's see if the Rebs continue to look solid across the board in their first road trip since TCU.

Rk.	Team	W-L	Last Week	Prev.
1.	Florida	15-1	5-0	1
2.	Stanford	13-2	3-1	2
3.	South Carolina	13-1	4-0	3
4.	Arkansas	14-2	3-0	4
5.	North Carolina	13-2	5-0	8
6.	Arizona	13-2	5-0	7
7.	Florida State	14-1	5-0	12
8.	Rice	13-4	2-3	5
9.	UCLA	12-3	4-0	16
10.	Texas A&M	13-3	2-2	6
11.	Arizona State	10-4	2-2	11
12.	Mississippi	13-2	4-0	14
13.	Louisiana State	13-3	3-1	13
14.	Miami	12-3	4-0	15
15.	Cal State Fullerton	10-5	2-2	19
16.	Georgia Tech	11-5	1-3	10
17.	Oregon	12-3	2-2	17
18.	Georgia	11-5	1-3	9
19.	Central Florida	13-4	3-2	18
20.	Texas State	11-4	3-1	21
21.	Mississippi State	14-3	4-1	23
22.	Oklahoma	11-5	4-2	22
23.	North Carolina State	11-3	3-1	NR
24.	Purdue	11-1	3-0	NR
25.	Oregon State	11-5	3-1	NR

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Just a little heads up on a promo code someone shared on NAFOOM last week.

On the subscription page for Rebelvision, you'll see a field to enter a coupon code. Type "FREEMONTH10" into the field and click "apply coupon".

This action will produce two results:

1. You get a free month of Rebelvision

2. After the free month, you have the option to maintain a monthly subscription for $14.99 instead of paying the usual $100 annual payment.

This is perfect for those of us who only use Rebelvision during baseball season. Just thought I'd pass this along.

Koban the Barbarian, a Nafoomer and Cupper, made it into the top 12 in the CSS/Tony Chachare's Tailgate Cookoff. He needs to finish in the top 3 vote getters to participate in the cookoff, which will be held at the Ole Miss-LSU game. The fact Koban is representing the Rebels should be enough to earn our votes, but it's also the best looking recipe in the contest. Click the link and vote a few times everyday until Nov. 3.

 

CLICK ON THE OLE MISS VIDEO TO CAST YOUR VOTE!

 

Smoked Duck and Andouille Gumbo

Number of Servings: 10-12 servings depending on size of duck

Ingredients:
- Smoked Duck,
- Andouille
- Tasso
- Flour
- Cajun Trinity
- Thyme and other spices
- Tony's

Directions: Set a duck upright on drunken chicken stand and smoke it for an hour or so until cooked. IMPORTANT: set a pan underneath duck filled with beer and onions to steam and flavor duck and more importantly to collect duck fat to be used later. Pick apart duck, set meat aside and boil remaining bones for stock.  Strain liquid in pan through sieve and cool. once the clean, smoke infused fat separates from other liquid, melt it down and add an equal amount of flour and stir to make roux until desired darkness is achieved.  Add Cajun Trinity (chopped onions, peppers, garlic, and other flavoring vegetables) once vegetables are wilted, add duck stock, and stir until well mixed. Add Andouille, Tasso, Duck and remaining spices to taste. bring to a light boil until flavors marry then reduce heat and serve over rice and garnish with file.

Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Cooking time: 4-5 hours

 

TONY CHACHERE'S 
TAILGAITING COOKOFF 
Recipe Rankings   
   
Based On Votes As Of:   
September 11, 2010

   
# 1 - Auburn: War Eagle Chicken Bundles
          (Wendy Brendle) .
# 2 - LSU: Bourbon Blackberry Bone-in Boston Butt
          (Jay Ducote)
# 3 - Ole Miss: Smoked Duck and Andouille Gumbo
          (Jack Koban)
# 4 - Alabama: Kickin’ Good Short Ribs Bayou
          (Amber Parsons)
# 5 - Arkansas: Razorback Ribs
          (Denise Campbell & Phyllis Speer)
# 6 - Tennessee : Caramelized Bacon Sliders
          (Kami R. Smith)
# 7 - Georgia : MiMi's Georgia Sic'Em Salsa
          (MiMi Johnson)
# 8 - Vanderbilt : Commodore Concoction
         (Ashley Gillihan)
# 9 - Mississippi State: MSU Bulldog Bites
          (David R Black)
#10 - Florida: Red Creole Chicken Wings With a
          Layered Black Bean Dip
          (Wolfgang H. Hanau)
#11 - Kentucky: Guacamole Cilantro
          Lime Cheeseburger
         (Renee Allison)
#12 - South Carolina : Gamecock Spurred Dawgs
         (Mary Marlowe Leverette)

http://www.olemisssports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/090110aaa.html

 

Sept. 1, 2010

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In an effort to update and provide additional information for fans and alumni, the following timeline details related events beginning with Tuesday morning through the present. This article will be updated throughout the process (All Times Central).

 

Wednesday, September 1
10:45 am: Ole Miss requests that the appeal of the NCAA staff's decision not to grant Jeremiah Masoli full relief to his waiver be conducted by telephone and that the University be permitted to participate in this appeal.

 

Tuesday, August 31
4:00 pm: Pete Boone, Jeremiah Masoli and Houston Nutt issue statements to local media at the Indoor Practice Facility on campus.

3:50pm: Ole Miss announces via OleMissSports.com the NCAA’s decision and the subsequent appeal.

12:30 pm: Ole Miss submits appeal letter that outlines reasons for disagreement with the decision.

9:45 am: NCAA representatives call Ole Miss compliance representatives to inform the University of their decision not to allow Jeremiah Masoli to play in the 2010 season.  The NCAA notes the student-athlete was unable to participate at the University of Oregon based on his dismissal from the team, which is contrary to the intent of the waiver.  They also note that they believe his transfer is not academically motivated, but athletically motivated.  The NCAA informs Ole Miss that an official document would be emailed following the telephone call.  The athletics department was then allowed to ask questions about the appeals process and decision details.  In an effort to understand why the dismissal from the Oregon team is relevant, Ole Miss noted that the student-athlete’s status on the previous team is not part of the waiver application, therefore not using that information in previous waiver decisions that have been granted.   Ole Miss also noted that the athletics deparment was aware of lower-profile, but very similar scenarios where the waiver was granted.  Ole Miss was then informed of the appeals process and told that if an appeal is submitted by 1 pm CT, there was a possibility that a review could be completed by Friday, but would take no longer than a week.  At the conclusion of that telephone call, the NCAA sent the documentation confirming the decision that was discussed on the call.



We will continue to keep fans updated throughout this process.  We are diligently preparing our case in the event that we are granted permission to participate in this appeal.  In addition, we have received an immense of calls offering support and additional information.  In an effort to streamline this valuable information, we ask that you send information to: sports@olemiss.edu.

Thank you for your continued support.

McCready: NCAA's Ruling on Masoli a Great Injustice

Allow me to share a quick personal disclosure: I don't really like college football.

The multi-million-dollar industry _ let's call it what it is and cut the Boy Scout crap out now _ is the ultimate sausage factory. Sure, the product served up on Saturday afternoon is tasty, maybe even downright addictive.

Once you have an inside view of how the sausage is produced, however, your appetite takes quite a hit.

Look no further than here in Oxford on Tuesday afternoon, where Jeremiah Masoli's residence waiver request to the NCAA was denied on the eve of the Rebels' season-opener against Jacksonville State. Regardless of what you may feel about the former Oregon quarterback personally or what you feel about the NCAA bylaw that allowed him to transfer to Ole Miss, Tuesday's ruling was a joke.

The NCAA, playing the dual role of God and the morality police, essentially ruled that Masoli's waiver request violated the spirit of a bylaw that allows a student-athlete who has graduated from one institution to transfer to another institution without being subject to transfer rules provided that the student-athlete enroll in a graduate program that is not offered at the original institution.

Masoli met and meets every one of those requirements. He graduated from Oregon, was accepted into Ole Miss' graduate school and began pursuing a Master of Arts in parks and recreation management, a graduate program not offered at Oregon.

The NCAA, in denying the request Tuesday, said, in part, that Masoli "was unable to participate at the University of Oregon based on his dismissal from the team, which is contrary to the intent of the waiver. The waiver exists to provide relief to student-athletes who transfer for academic reasons to pursue graduate studies, not to avoid disciplinary measures at the previous university."

The intent of the waiver? Seriously? So now institutions are asked to not only know the rules numbered in the massive NCAA manual but they are also required to know the unwritten, unspoken intent of said rules?

Secondly, the NCAA ruled that there was a discrepancy between when Oregon dismissed Masoli and when Masoli began to consider transferring. For the record, Masoli pled guilty in March to misdemeanor burglary and was suspended for the 2010 season by Oregon coach Chip Kelly. In June, after Masoli was cited for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, the second-team All-Pac 10 quarterback was dismissed from the Ducks' program (but not from Oregon University, which bears noting). Masoli completed his degree requirements at Oregon in June, applied to Ole Miss on July 24 and was accepted.

"Regarding the time discrepancies with the recollection of the institution and Jeremiah, the staff attempted to determine when Jeremiah started thinking of a transfer," Ole Miss athletics director Pete Boone said. "I think this is a difficult task for anyone, even David Blaine, to try to accomplish."

It's a good line from Boone, but it really shouldn't matter. Masoli graduated from Oregonand chose to transfer to another institution that offered a graduate program not offered in Eugene. The rules allow him to do that. Of course, the intent of those rules apparently doesn't. If the NCAA truly believes the intent of the rule was violated, it should change the rule forthwith. Instead, the NCAA chose to arbitrarily interpret the spirit of a written rule that Ole Miss applied and followed during the process. That, simply, is wrong.

Ole Miss is appealing the decision, and an NCAA Subcommittee for Legislative Relief, an independent group comprised of representatives from NCAA member colleges, universities and athletic conferences, could deliver a final answer as soon as Friday and no later than one week. I'll kill the suspense now; Ole Miss/Masoli will lose said appeal. The Pittsburgh Pirates have a better chance of winning the N.L. Central this season.

Maybe I'll be wrong there; a source said Tuesday afternoon that he estimated the aforementioned appeals committee provides relief as much as 40 percent of the time. However, it's my opinion that the NCAA simply didn't like the taste of Masoli's transfer to Ole Miss and simply wasn't going to swallow it.

So in my opinion, sometime in the next few days, the door will be slammed shut on Masoli and he'll be left to decide whether he wants to redshirt (he's a walk-on at Ole Miss) and play in 2011 or if he wants to pursue a professional career, perhaps starting his career in the Canadian Football League, where the rules (I know nothing about the intent of the CFL's rules) fit his style of play remarkably well.

It will, again in my opinion, mark the end of a great injustice. Ole Miss, according to multiple sources, did its due diligence prior to pursuing Masoli. As Boone and Houston Nutt noted Tuesday afternoon, there was no prior case law, if you will, to support the NCAA's denial. As UM administrators reviewed the rules and Masoli's background, no red flags were raised. No one in Indianapolis, according to sources, indicated Masoli's case would be viewed with a different microscope.

So Masoli arrived in Oxford, went through more than three weeks of fall camp and began classes before the NCAA delivered its verdict. If you're skeptical about the NCAA and what it's really all about, you agree with me in the assumption that the powers-that-be at the NCAA knew weeks ago what its verdict would be. To allow Masoli to go through camp and to prevent Nutt from pursuing other options instead of Masoli, while taking the media beating that accompanied his arrival, was fundamentally cruel.

I'm not a big conspiracy theorist. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe that only left-wing lunatic nuts believe the U.S. government played any role in the 9-11 attacks on New York and Washington. However, I do believe the NCAA plays favorites and I don't believe for one moment that Masoli's appeal would have been denied Tuesday had he spent the past three-plus weeks practicing at Alabama or Florida.

See, that's the NCAA problem. There is no consistency in its rulings. Watch and see over the next few weeks. I bet, for example, that Marcel Dareus plays at Alabama sooner rather than later. The NCAA is investigating whether the star defensive lineman attended an agent-related party in Florida earlier this year.

A source close to Dareus' family told the (Mobile, Ala.) Press-Register that Dareus took the trip in May on arrangements made by friend and North Carolina defensive end Marvin Austin, but that Dareus returned after a short time, not using a hotel room.

Sure he did. Those players didn't know the guys flying them to Miami and supplying them with expensive bubbly and God knows what else were agents.

And the Tooth Fairy injected Roger Clemens with those PEDs.

In reality, Dareus, Austin and the other players at that party accepted gifts from an agent and should _ if the NCAA rules are to be enforced _ be stripped of their eligibility. That probably won't happen, though. Intent will be parsed, enforcement will be selective and we'll get to listen to Nick Saban and Urban Meyer preach on about predatory agents.

That's the NCAA way. Rules are open to convenient interpretation.

After all, the show must go on, and the sausage must be served.

What other country in human history affords the average citizen the opportunity to prove that, despite all obstacles, goals can be met, doubters can be proven wrong and anything than happen as the result of persistence in it's purest form? Where else can one born and raised in a small town in the middle of nowhere with access to nothing more than God-given talent and tenacity, use those assets to live out a life-long dream while placing himself in position to alter the course of future generations of his family and reap monetary rewards most only dream about?

Fuck. Yeah.

 

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Kudos on knocking off the much hated, cheating, classless jackasses of Tempe, Arizona. (I generally hate the overused terms of "class" and "classless" in sports...but they are.) I never had any feelings for or against the Sun Devils until the 2007 Tempe Super Regional. They became my most hated college baseball team that weekend and shall remain so through the end of time. Way to represent the conference, Cocks. Good luck!

(I'd have posted this on GBA but they require a day for membership to become effective)

Amid the biggest off-season college football story in decades – conference realignment – I’ve noticed a peculiar attitude from fans of other conferences, particularly those of the Pac-10ish(?) persuasion. Scan the comments section of almost any article covering the expansion. Peruse the forums of Pac-10 and/or University of Texas fan sites. You’ll notice a theme among current Pac partisans. Apparently, their conference is on the verge of finally one-upping the hated Southeastern Conference.

"Your days of domination will soon be over," they warn.

"The SEC is quickly becoming a second-rate conference," opines Joe Pac 10 Fan.  

"Our money will dwarf yours once we get into the Asian TV markets (yes, they really are trying to do this)". 

Here’s the one thing all of these people are completely missing. It’s not all about money – at least when it comes to being the premiere college football conference. The thing the SEC has that the Pac 10 will never have is the "IT" factor. And, all the money in the world can’t buy "IT".

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Amid the biggest off-season college football story in decades – conference realignment – I’ve noticed a peculiar attitude from fans of other conferences, particularly those of the Pac-10ish(?) persuasion. Scan the comments section of almost any article covering the expansion. Peruse the forums of Pac-10 and/or University of Texas fan sites. You’ll notice a theme among current Pac partisans. Apparently, their conference is on the verge of finally one-upping the hated Southeastern Conference.

"Your days of domination will soon be over," they warn.

"The SEC is quickly becoming a second-rate conference," opines Joe Pac 10 Fan.  

"Our money will dwarf yours once we get into the Asian TV markets (yes, they really are trying to do this)". 

Here’s the one thing all of these people are completely missing. It’s not all about money – at least when it comes to being the premiere college football conference. The thing the SEC has that the Pac 10 will never have is the "IT" factor. And, all the money in the world can’t buy "IT".

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Amid the biggest off-season college football story in decades – conference realignment – I’ve noticed a peculiar attitude from fans of other conferences, particularly those of the Pac-10ish(?) persuasion. Scan the comments section of almost any article covering the expansion. Peruse the forums of Pac-10 and/or University of Texas fan sites. You’ll notice a theme among current Pac partisans. Apparently, their conference is on the verge of finally one-upping the hated Southeastern Conference.

"Your days of domination will soon be over," they warn.

"The SEC is quickly becoming a second-rate conference," opines Joe Pac 10 Fan.  

"Our money will dwarf yours once we get into the Asian TV markets (yes, they really are trying to do this)". 

Here’s the one thing all of these people are completely missing. It’s not all about money – at least when it comes to being the premiere college football conference. The thing the SEC has that the Pac 10 will never have is the "IT" factor. And, all the money in the world can’t buy "IT".

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For many of you, I trust, it is now officially "football season". Baseball is now in your collective rear view mirrors as you join our brethren to the south in over-analyzing every minor facet of our pigskin program until August - but not me. No, I have some unfinished business to take care of in this annual tournament of torture that has become such an integral part of our lives – an event we simultaneously anticipate and dread from February to June. Bowing out of the tourney has become as much an Oxfordian rite of spring as Double Decker, Derby Days and even the FOP, Etc. Convention (Fat, Old, Pasty White Men in Undersized Jerseys Bearing the Number of Whomever is Our Latest Deceptively Fast, Messianic Caucasian MPSAA Alum Convention some refer to as the "Grove Bowl").

Over these past few years of never-ending disappointment with our frustratingly consistent and solid baseball program, I've learned a lot about myself. What have I learned, you ask? I'm a jealous, spiteful son of a bitch. The success of other programs completely pisses me off. I've developed an attitude that because of all the trials the Rebel faithful have endured, we are somehow entitled to a lucky break, timely hot streak, whatever you want to call it. That’s right – a feeling of entitlement. Like a Bama Football fan without the success. This entitlement stirs the flames of hate in my soul when I see others succeed where we continue to fail.

Today’s hatred is directed at three schools whose baseball teams play for a Regional Championship today:  Alabama, Auburn and Virginia. I'll be rooting against each of these teams tonight with all the passion with which I rooted for the Rebels over the weekend. I want to see them go down. I want to watch them cry. I want to taste their tears.

To borrow a line from the legendary Frank Costanza, "I got a lot of problems with you people! And, now you’re gonna hear about it."

A Rebel Fan at heart via blog.mlive.com

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Gentlemen (and ladies) of RCR, our Diamond Rebs journey to Charlottesville this weekend for the program's eighth straight NCAA Regional appearance. As you may or may not know, The Hoos' recent surge onto the national scene is largely due to the generosity of one John Grisham.  

It's no secret Grisham is an arrogant asshole. After some reflection spurred by yesterday's announcement of our regional draw, I've come to realize he's an even bigger asshole than I first thought and, so, requires a little hatin' to be thrown his way from any and all "good Rebels".

 

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Asshole, Mediocre Writer

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If a Bama fan says one fucking word to you about the game today, ask them what their head coach's name is. It shuts them up in a hurry.

And now I have to make this at least 75 words and that was only 30 words so I'll just ramble a little bit and yeah, a couple of Bama fans I know to not even remotely give half a shit about college baseball tried to talk smack after the game tonight and it pissed me off and I have a serious problem with hating Bama. I may need to seek help. We're talking Arkansasian levels of hatred here. Ok, surely that's 75 words, so let's go ahead and hit the ol' publish button and..

So, Ron Morris, columnist for The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, penned a somewhat damning piece on Ole Miss' refusal to grant basketball transfer and S. C. native Murphy Holloway a release to either the University of South Carolina or Clemson University. Sadly, rather than sticking to pertinent arguments in support of his case, Mr. Morris saw fit to include a completely unnecessary, ridiculous jab at Ole Miss in what would or could have been the catalyst to an informed discussion and/or debate regarding one of the many counter-productive, self-defeating NCAA rules on the books in Indianapolis. Undeniable evidence Ron Morris is a race-bating hack after the jump! 

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What a Douche...

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Not a done deal yet but close enough Nutt felt comfortable mentioning it at the Delta Hills Rebel Club meeting Tuesday night. Jeff Roberson of the OMSpirit has confirmed that a deal is, indeed, in the works. No word on whether or not there would be a return game.

By the way, this would make the home schedule look like this in 2011:

Southern Illinois - Tulane - Boise State - Alabama - Arkansas - Georgia - LSU

 

Discuss.

Pomeranz discussing why he had eleventy billions walks against LSU last week and began his appearance in Starkville out of rhythm:

“I was just doing something with the ball in my glove (before he threw each pitch). It was throwing my rhythm off just a hair. I wasn’t keeping the ball in my glove (right before he delivered a pitch), which was causing my arm to drag just a bit. Once I kept everything still, it made everything click back into rhythm. I knew it was something stupid like that. I laughed at myself about it.”

It's amazing how thin the line is that can determine whether a guy on the mound looks like Corky Thatcher or a projected top 10 draft pick.

The whole "Omaha" thing notwithstanding, the above is the reason I try not to allow myself to get too worked up when we lose a game. Baseball is one fucked up sport. 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact: Mary-Kathryn Millner

Double Decker Festival 2010 Inclement Weather Schedule 

      Oxford, Miss.- Oxford City Leaders and members of the Oxford Tourism Council have decided to move the Double Decker Festival from Saturday, April 24th to Sunday, April 25th due to current severe weather forecasted by the National Weather Service. 

Saturday activities will be cancelled until approximately 6:00pm, when all originally scheduled music will perform on the North Lamar stage, weather permitting.

Regularly scheduled events, such as arts and food will begin on the square on Sunday, April 25th at 10:00am. Square Fair will be located behind the Thompson Building from 10am to 5pm with the best dressed pet contest at 12:00pm. Local music will perform on the North Lamar stage Sunday, beginning at 12:30pm.

For more information please visit the official Double Decker website at www.doubledeckerfestival.com.