Archive - Nov 2012
November 12th
MABEN – It is basketball season and if you ask coach Danny Crawford about the West Oktibbeha Timberwolves, you can sense the excitement event before he starts talking.
MABEN – The West Oktibbeha Lady Timberwolves have a few obstacles that they will have to overcome in order to be successful during the current basketball season.
The first will be their youth, while the second will be facing sanctions that were recently placed on the West Oktibbeha school system.
ACKERMAN – Ackerman’s coach Gary Beals knows his team will be competitive during the 2012-2013 season, but just how competitive will be determined as the season progresses.
“You can only tell so much from practice,” Beals said. “Our competitiveness is just one of those things that we will have to wait and see what happens when we hit the court.”
ACKERMAN – Gary Beals knows that it is going to take plenty of hard work from this year’s Ackerman Lady Indians squad if they want to compete hard and achieve their goal of making the playoffs.
Losing tough seniors Vanessa Miller, Sarah Bowles and Kadesia Simmons certainly took something from Ackerman, but Beals says that “most of the top six have played a lot.”
Thousands of children will experience the magic of theatre this week as Theatre MSU presents “The Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King” on the main stage of McComas Hall.
Directed by Jo Durst, the play tells the story of the mischievous Chinese superhero, the Monkey King as he dances and battles his way through life learning lessons of leadership, responsibility and forgiveness.
The Starkville School District Board of Directors will consider approval of a laptop lease program for 360 SSD teachers and several state-mandated policy changes at its meeting at noon Tuesday at the Greensboro Center.
The Starkville Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on new First Baptist Church developments including a new children’s building, new parking and a roundabout on Lafayette Street during its meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.
November 11th
Mississippi State is in the midst of a three-game losing streak, and the Bulldogs haven't been very good the past three seasons against this week's opponent.
The Bulldogs have lost to Alabama, Texas A&M and LSU in consecutive weeks. This week, they play Arkansas who has beaten the Bulldogs three straight years.
When Rick Ray took over the Mississippi State basketball team, he really didn't know what he had.
The Bulldogs finished 21-12 a season ago and lost in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament to Massachusetts in Starkville.
Ray has seen a different team since his arrival in Starkville.
Coach Vic Schaefer and his staff looks to lay a foundation with the Mississippi State women's basketball program that leads to a championship future.
While serving as an assistant on Gary Blair's staff at Texas A&M, that's what happened with the Lady Aggies.
