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With election season out of the way, it’s time to focus on basketball again. The strangest team in the Gulf South Conference on a yearly basis is Henderson State.  The Reddies are usually loaded with physical talent, but they don’t always put together a good season.  They’re up next in my series of season previews. […]

Thursday night marked the beginning of the exhibition season for the Harding men’s basketball team, and it was a great start. Matt Hall had 34 points and 11 rebounds in his return to competition, and Cole Kee sank a three at the buzzer to reach the final margin of three points. Neither school has posted […]

Harding finished sixth last season, so ordinarily this would be the Bisons’ turn in the previews, but since they’re the home team as far as I’m concerned, they got to go first.  Next up are the Christian Brothers Buccaneers. 05-06 Recap The Bucs finished 9-7 in GSC play last year, good enough for the last […]

Number three on the list for season previews is Ouachita Baptist.  The talent pool seemed to run dry last season for the Tigers, who finished 4-12 in a tough season of conference play.  That was only good enough for seventh place, a lower-than-average finish for OBU, which is typically at least a contender.  This year, […]

We’re off to a great start with the strangest team names in the conference.  First were the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys, and now we have the SAU Muleriders. 05-06 Recap The Muleriders have been cellar-dwellers for several years now, and last year was no different.  They were a young team that I thought might improve, […]

Moving on from the Bisons in my series of GSC West previews, we’ll start up from the bottom of last year’s division standings.  Leading off are the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys Athletic directors don’t put up with losing seasons in revenue-generating sports like men’s basketball, so in Russellville, it was out with the old coach […]

Rather than devote a full post to each of a number of topics that have been on my mind, I thought I would just share my thoughts quickly. 1. The season 3 premiere of the best show on TV, “The Office,” was last night.  As expected, it was good, although in terms of great laughs, […]

In my experience, there are few more exhilarating experiences than a person’s first day at a new job.  I’ve had the pleasure of personally experiencing this eight times now with five different jobs, and today was one of those days, although it was different from the rest.  In the past, I have worked temporary jobs […]

#1W Delta State 71, #1E Montevallo 67 Delta State avenged a loss to Montevallo in last year’s conference title game with this win, which continues the Statesmen’s 25-game winning streak. Here are the keys to the game: DSU UM +/- Eff 116.1 105.9 10.1 Actual net efficiency TS% 59.0 52.1 0.069 OR% 31.3% 41.2% -0.099 […]