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Ole Miss football has increased chances to beat Alabama. Here’s why

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football coach Lane Kiffin's stated plan was to walk away from the podium at his Monday press conference in Oxford and start prepping for Alabama.

The Southeastern Conference schedule blessed Kiffin's Rebels with an open before they welcome the Crimson Tide to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium next Saturday (2:30 p.m., CBS), and Kiffin didn't hide his intent to get a head start.

“We'll start as soon as we here,” he said Monday. “We just met with the players and let them go, so we'll start on that ourselves with Alabama and work on it all week.”

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In NIT, Southern Miss basketball to face UAB in opener

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Southern Miss 's basketball is to the NIT for the first time since 2014.

The Golden Eagles will face UAB in the first round of the 2023 NIT on Tuesday (6:30 p.m., ESPN+), learned their postseason fate Sunday.

Coach Jay Ladner – the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year – guided Southern Miss (25-7) to its third regular-season conference championship and first since 2000-01. The regular-season title clinched an automatic bid for the Golden Eagles despite a 78-61 quarterfinals loss to South Alabama in the conference tournament March 4.

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Mississippi Legislature moves through another major deadline Wednesday

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Another legislative deadline came and went Wednesday, with all bills to move past the floor of the chamber they did not originate in, and a number of the most watched bills remain alive.

Some big pieces of legislation died though, one of the most important ones related to the of .

See what made it past Wednesday's deadline, and what did not.

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Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, right, confers with Senate Judiciary A Committee Chairman Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, during the morning session of the Mississippi Legislature in Jackson, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023.

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Senate Bill 2889 failed to pass the House in any version before the deadline.

It would have created the Mississippi Capital Region Utility Authority, taking ownership of Jackson's troubled and…

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Madison Booker is Mississippi Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of Year

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signee Booker was selected as the Gatorade Mississippi Girls Basketball Player of the Year on Wednesday. The McDonald's All-American selection helped Germantown to its first championship in program history last .

Booker had 26 points, 11 and four steals as the Mavericks (29-2) defeated 64-43 in the MHSAA Class 6A title . She helped lead Germantown to three consecutive trips to the state semifinals and two championship .

The five-star recruit averaged 20 points, eight rebounds, 2.8 assists, 2.6 steals and 1.1 steals per game. Booker was…

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