Articles by Brandon Walker
MSU fires Ray after three seasons
Mississippi State men’s basketball coach Rick Ray was fired Saturday, 10 days after finishing his third losing season in as many years.
MSU puts plan in place to hire new men’s basketball coach
STARKVILLE — For the second time in three years, Mississippi State is looking for a new men’s basketball coach.
MSU, BYU reach agreement for football series
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State has found its latest Power Five conference opponent for football, even if that opponent doesn’t belong to a Power Five conference.
Lovelady, Bulldogs resume SEC play at Kentucky
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State catcher Josh Lovelady has no trouble admitting that he’s nervous in advance of this weekend’s Southeastern Conference series at Kentucky.
MSU players believe in Ray
STARKVILLE — On paper, Rick Ray’s third season as coach of the Mississippi State men’s basketball team was worse than his second.
The Bulldogs won 13 games this season, down from 14 a year ago. They also failed to win a Southeastern Conference tournament game for the first time in Ray’s tenure.
But the players already are looking forward to Ray’s fourth season in charge.
Plenty of questions for MSU as spring practice begins
STARKVILLE — After a topsy-turvy week filled with multiple arrests and a nationally publicized incident involving quarterback Dak Prescott, Mississippi State’s football players went back to work Tuesday.
They looked right at home.
Mullen responds to string of off-field incidents
If Mississippi State football coach Dan Mullen felt any added stress following a week that included two of his players being arrested and a nationally publicized incident involving quarterback Dak Prescott, he didn’t show it Tuesday.
MSU team deals with 2 arrests in 24 hours
What should have been a quiet week for Mississippi State’s football team was anything but.
MSU tries to solve bullpen’s struggles
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State baseball coach John Cohen admitted in the offseason it would be hard for the Bulldogs to replace bullpen stalwarts Jonathan Holder and Jacob Lindgren.
Cohen didn’t know it would be this hard.
Bullpen fails MSU again in loss to Alabama
STARKVILLE — It happened again.
And John Cohen could barely hide his disgust.
Cohen, Mississippi State’s seventh-year baseball coach, talked to media after an 8-4 loss to Alabama on Sunday, a loss that once again featured a meltdown by the normally reliable bullpen.
In the finale of the three-game series, MSU relievers failed again to get the job done in the eighth inning, allowing four runs to turn a nip-and-tuck game into a runaway for the Crimson Tide. The implosion came 24 hours after the bullpen yielded eight runs in the eighth in a 10-5 loss.
MSU baseball splits doubleheader with Alabama
STARKVILLE – Austin Sexton was aware of how Mississippi State lost Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader against Alabama.
MSU baseball looks to shake slump with start of SEC play
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State first baseman Wes Rea admits that his team has been struggling lately.
MSU bats go silent in 3-1 loss to Western Kentucky
STARKVILLE – According to Wes Rea, the biggest factor contributing to Mississippi State’s current slump is baseball is an inability to get big hits in key situations.
Holland single the game-winner as MSU tops Western Kentucky
STARKVILLE – John Holland had been struggling. So had Mississippi State’s baseball team.
In the bottom of the 10th inning of Tuesday night’s home game against Western Kentucky, both Holland and the Bulldogs broke through at the same time.
Sword named Second Team All-SEC by coaches
STARKVILLE – All season long, Mississippi State men’s basketball coach Rick Ray has wondered aloud what might have been in Bulldogs’ guard Craig Sword had been healthy all season.
Dak Prescott injured in spring break attack
Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott and two teammates arrived back in Starkville after a fight caught on video in Panama City Beach, Fla., left Prescott with visible wounds to his face and back.
MSU can’t close out San Diego to win series
STARKVILLE — For the first 13 games of the season, it was nearly impossible to find a weakness in Mississippi State’s baseball team.
Now it’s impossible to ignore them.
MSU baseball faces rubber match with San Diego
STARKVILLE – There were few signs of trouble for Mississippi State’s offense through the first 13 games of the season.
Bulldogs look for positive finish against Missouri
STARKVILLE – In each of his first two seasons as Mississippi State’s men’s basketball coach, Rick Ray watched as his team crumbled down the stretch.