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Bulldog Beat
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Looking back: The MSU-Alabama game notebook |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
By AARON SEIDLITZ
For the Bulldog Beat
The play started off as routine, and by the end of the drive it didn’t even contribute to a full seven points.
It wasn’t so much that this one play stood out that much in the grand, overall scheme of the game in relation to the scoreboard. But this one play also highlighted a stark difference in how the Mississippi State and Alabama teams differ right now.
Alabama’s wide Marquis Maze caught a short pass from quarterback Greg McElroy, but quickly he weaved his way through five State defenders.
42-yards later Alabama’s scoring drive was well under way. Even though the Crimson Tide managed only a field goal to go up 17-0, it was apparent their playmakers were doing what they were advertised as capable of.
“Give credit to Alabama, they made some big plays, and I think that was the difference in the game. They completed passes of 48, 42, 45 and a 70-yard touchdown run by (running back) Mark Ingram – we hold him to 79 yards if you take away that touchdown run,” MSU head coach Dan Mullen said.
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Alabama defense proves insurmountable for Bulldogs |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
By AARON SEIDLITZ
For the Bulldog Beat
About as quickly as Mark Ingram finished off his 70-yard run to give Alabama a 31-3 lead over Mississippi State in the fourth quarter Saturday night, another record crowd at Davis Wade Stadium began to exit the premises.
In a game where State took the ball inside the Crimson Tide redzone just three times, it was two kickoff returns that may have been the team’s best chances to score in a 31-3 loss against the No. 2 ranked team in the nation – according to the BCS standings.
After an effective start to the game offensively, Mississippi State (4-6, 2-4 Southeastern Conference) became one more victim to Alabama’s defense.
The Crimson Tide (10-0, 7-0) have allowed a touchdown or less in five games this season, and the Bulldogs struggled to shut down an offense that used a wide variety of weapons.
The result was the largest discrepancy in an MSU loss so far this season, and on a day when the Bulldogs again packed more people than ever in Davis Wade Stadium – this time 58,103 was reported as attending the game – most were left with an empty feeling.
Head coach Dan Mullen was no different.
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MSU basketball teams enter and exit polls this week |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
By MATTHEW STEVENS
For the Bulldog Beat
Monday will be remembered as a bittersweet day for both Mississippi State basketball programs.
Friday night’s upset 88-74 loss to Rider dropped the MSU men’s team from 18th to out of both the Associated Press and USA Today/Coaches polls.
“I think everybody understands now when I say how good Rider is,” MSU head coach Rick Stansbury said Friday after the loss.
“They were just better than us. We just had no answers for them.”
The Bulldogs (0-1) received exactly 16 votes in both polls and were the only team to fall out of the Top 25 this week.
Stansbury has said through MSU spokesman that he will not comment before Thursday night’s game against Southeastern Louisiana about whether or for how long forward Kodi Augustus will be disciplined for his comments following the loss to Rider.
On the other end of the spectrum for the first time since 2003, the Mississippi State Women’s Basketball team has cracked the Associated Press Top 25.
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Bowl game representatives have their eye on Bulldogs |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
By MATTHEW STEVENS
For the Bulldog Beat
Mississippi State head football coach Dan Mullen and every player Monday afternoon echoed the same thoughts about the importance of the final two games of the season.
MSU record-setting tailback Anthony Dixon wasn’t sure how the team’s first blowout loss to Alabama last Saturday would hamper the team’s confidence in this do-or-die scenario.
“I don’t know how much they believe right now, but I guess we’ll find out these next couple days of practice,” Dixon said Monday. “I’m going to try to get them to believe 100 percent.”
Two leaders of bowl committees with ties to the Southeastern Conference confirmed to the Starkville Daily News Monday they will have executives monitoring the Bulldogs’ situation from now till its time to pick representatives.
“Depending on the outcome next weekend, we may visit when Mississippi State plays Ole Miss in the final regular season game,” Mark Edwards, executive director of the Papajohns.com Bowl and ESPN Regional Television said.
A spokesman for the Independence Bowl stated they “will have two at (the) game up in Little Rock on Saturday.”
Senior linebacker Jamar Chaney, a co-captain who was a started in the Bulldogs 10-3 Liberty Bowl victory at the end of the 2007 season, says a postseason berth is something every player has on their mind throughout this week.
“Everybody is still focused on getting to a bowl game,” Chaney said Monday. “That would be a big accomplishment not only for this year’s team but going into next year’s season as well. We’re real confident, we’re not just the type of team that will give up.”
If Mississippi State (4-6, 2-4 in Southeastern Conference) can win these last pair of games and Tennessee (5-5, 2-4) picks up one more victory, every team except Vanderbilt will be at the six wins necessary to qualify for a bowl game.
“We’re still in good position,” Mullen said in his Monday press conference. “Our team still has a lot to play for this year.”
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Symphony holiday concert set for Dec. 1 |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
The Starkville-Mississippi State University Symphony Chamber Orchestra, along with the MSU Chamber Singers and guest soloists, will be featured in a special Dec. 1 campus holiday concert.
The 7:30 p.m. free program in Bettersworth Auditorium of Lee Hall is made possible by grants from the J.W. Criss Memorial Foundation. Works by 18th century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi will be featured.
Administered through MSU’s Division of Student Affairs, Criss grants were awarded to the symphony and the Lyceum Series for the seasonal event.
Program highlights include:
• ”Concerto for Two Trumpets,” featuring music department assistant professor Michael Huff and instructor Virginia Huff of East Mississippi Community College.
• ”Oboe Concert in F Minor,” featuring James Sullivan, principal oboist with the Alabama Symphony.
• ”Concerto for Two Guitars,” with music assistant professor Michael Patilla and guest artist Michael Partington of Seattle, Wash.
The program’s second half will showcase the Chamber Choir performing “Gloria” under the direction of J. Bruce Lesley, MSU director of choral activities.
Soloists will be Rebecca Wascoe, an assistant professor in the department, and guest artist Nicole Leupp of Champaign, Ill.
For more information about the concert, telephone the music department at 662-325-3070. For more information about the symphony association, visit www.starkvillemsusymphony.org.
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Theatre MSU stages classic tale for annual children’s show |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
 Charles R. “Max” Herrington of Jackson portrays the title character in Theatre MSU’s children’s production of Michele L. Vacca’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Mississippi State theatre students will bring a classic children’s fairy tale to life on the McComas Hall stage this week.
Theatre MSU in the Department of Communication will present “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Michele L. Vacca on Monday to Friday on the McComas Theatre Main Stage on campus.
Each day, school groups from throughout the area will attend productions during regular school hours.
The 7:30 p.m. performance on Thursday of the annual children’s show is open to the public.
Directed by Marianne Ulmer, this setting of the classic fairy tale will appeal to audiences of all ages while teaching lessons on the dangers of vanity and greed.
His Imperial Majesty, the most serene, royal, magnificent, wondrous, unique, and above all well dressed Emperor Abu Abdullah Abdul, ruler of our GloriousLand, Zanadum Zanadu Zan, spends all of his time and country’s gold on clothes.
He possesses hundreds of fashionable tunics, trousers, vests, slippers and turbans.
Nevertheless, Abu decides he has “nothing to wear,” and he needs new clothes for the Great State Occasion in three days time.
This is MSU’s 17th year to perform a children’s show for local students. This annual tradition has become a favorite of university actors because of the excitement the kids bring as audience members.
Matt Crane, who plays one of the tailors in the show, said, “Performing for kids is so much fun! We love to see the looks on their faces when they get to meet us after the show.”
Ulmer added, “What a wonderful feeling it is to develop a show for children that will very probably be their first live theatre experience! It is rewarding and challenging at the same time.”
Tickets are $5 for students and children and $10 or general admission.
For more information, contact Ulmer at 325-7841 or Melanie Harris at 325-9162 or
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Deadline approaches for donations for troop care packages |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
BB Staff Reports
Those interested in donating candy, phone cards or Christmas cards toward the planned Project SOS Christmas care package drive for National Guardsmen currently serving in Iraq have until Friday to do so.
A drive is under way to prepare another round of care packages for the soldiers for Christmas, with a work day set for 10 a.m. this Saturday at the National Guard Armory to get the packages ready for shipping in early December. All donations must be brought to the SDN offices by 3 p.m. on Friday.
“We have been contacted by several folks and groups who are collecting candy for the Christmas care package drive, but very few have dropped off any at the newspaper offices,” said SDN Editor Brian Hawkins, who is helping to coordinate the project.
“We’re asking folks who are collecting candy to let us know so we can plan to purchase any that we need above what is donated.”
Each of the Christmas care packages to be shipped will include an 18-inch Christmas stocking filled with hard candy and gum for the soldiers to enjoy, a special T-shirt being designed for the troops by the Oktibbeha County chapter of the MSU Alumni Association, a specially made Christmas music CD, a miniature Christmas tree and Christmas cards made by children at local elementary schools and those sent from the public.
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