- Rick Stansbury
Rick Stansbury (born December 23, 1959 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a native of Battletown, Kentucky and is the current head men's basketball coach at Mississippi State University (MSU). On March 13, 1998, Stansbury became the Bulldogs' 18th head basketball coach, replacing the retiring Richard Williams, who is Mississippi State's all-time winningest basketball coach. With his first win in the 2006-07 season, Stansbury moved into second place on that list. - Tyler Hansbrough
Andrew Tyler Hansbrough (born November 3 1985 in Columbia, Missouri), nicknamed "Psycho T", is an American collegiate basketball player for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men's basketball team. Hansbrough was a member of the 2006 and 2007 Atlantic Coast Conference All Conference Team and the 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year. - Ron Polk
Ron Polk (born January 12, 1944) is the current head baseball coach at Mississippi State. He is by far the winningest coach in school history. In 27 seasons as the coach, he compiled a 1078-535-2 (.668) record. His career record stands at 1312-647-2. He currently ranks 8th on the all time wins list, and ranks 5th in terms of victories among active coaches. His teams have won five SEC championships, including four SEC tournament championships. - Jonathan Papelbon
Jonathan Robert Papelbon (born November 23, 1980 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is the closer for the Boston Red Sox. He bats and throws right-handed. Papelbon was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in 2002 out of Mississippi State. Papelbon throws a fastball clocked as high as 99 mph, typically hitting the mid-90s, with great command. He has a good slider, changeup, curveball, as well as a splitter which he added to his arsenal after some tutoring from teammate Curt Schilling. - John Cohen
John Cohen is the head baseball coach at the University of Kentucky. He played college ball at Mississippi State after spending a single season at Birmingham Southern College in Alabama. He then spent two years in the Minnesota Twins farm system. He served as an assisant coach at the University of Missouri from 1992-97 before moving to Northwestern State University from 1998-2001, where he won two conference championships. - Erick Dampier
Erick Travez Dampier (born July 14, 1975, in New Hebron, Mississippi) is an American professional basketball player. He is a 6 ft 11 in / 265 lb. center who currently plays for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA. Erick played competitively at Lawrence County High School in Monticello, Mississippi, where he led the rural county to two state championships. Dampier played college basketball at Mississippi State University. While there he became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi. - Paul Maholm
Paul Gurner Maholm [Mah-HALL-uhm] (born June 25, 1982 in Greenwood, Mississippi) is a lefthanded pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was a three-year letterman while pitching at Mississippi State, before being selected by the Pirates in the first round (8th overall) of the 2003 Major League Baseball draft. Maholm is a graduate of Germantown High School in Germantown, Tennessee. He made his major league debut, as a starter, on August 30, … - Pat McMahon
Pat McMahon (born May 28, 1953) is the former baseball coach for the Florida Gators. In his twelve seasons as a head coach, he has compiled a career record of 527-259-1. Prior to becoming the head coach of the Gators, he also served as the head coach of Old Dominion, and Mississippi State. He has appeared in two College World Series, in 1998, and 2005. In the 2005 College World Series, he led Florida to a national championship series, … - John Vaughn
John Vaughn (born June 15, 1984 in Brentwood, Tennessee) is an American football placekicker who played college football for Auburn University. In the 2006 season, Vaughn was named the SEC Special Teams Player of the Year and was a Lou Groza Award finalist. His 42-yard Cotton Bowl field goal was his twentieth made out of twenty-four attempts for a 83.3% on the season and made him just the second Auburn kicker ever to complete twenty or more field goals in a single season. - Joe Lee Dunn
Joe Lee Dunn attended the University of Chattanooga (now University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and was a Sigma Chi. He is the former defensive coordinator of the Memphis Tigers football program. He transformed the Tigers defense from a unit that ranked near the bottom statistically in defense, to a top 25 defensive unit. Prior to coaching at Memphis, he was the defensive coordinator at Mississippi State from 1996 to 2002. - Mario Haggan
Mario Marcell Haggan (born March 3, 1980) is a linebacker who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills, and attended Mississippi State. He is a tremendous athlete, and while at Mississippi State a team leader and character. While playing at MSU in 2002, he was the showcase player in ESPN's The Season, an in-depth documentary about various sports teams. He has achieved mediocre success in the NFL seeing playing time mostly as a back-up and special teams player. - Richard Williams
Richard Williams was the college basketball coach at Mississippi State from 1986 to 1998. With 191 victories, he is the winningest coach in school history. His 1995 squad made the Sweet Sixteen, and his 1996 squad made the school's only Final Four appearance. He has received two SEC Coach of the Year awards. - Darrell Royal
Darrell K. Royal (born July 6, 1924 in Hollis, Oklahoma), is a College Football Hall of Fame member, and is the most successful football coach, in terms of wins, in University of Texas Longhorn history. Darrell Royal has a middle initial but no middle name. The "K" is in honor of his mother, Katy, who died when he was an infant. She died of cancer, but because of the taboo surrounding the disease at that time, … - Bryson Davis
Bryson Davis is an American football fullback who currently plays for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. Davis was signed by the Browns as an undrafted free agent after completing his career at Mississippi State. - Jonathan Bender
Jonathan Rene Bender (born January 30 1981 in Picayune, Mississippi) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. Bender was selected with the fifth pick by the Toronto Raptors in the 1999 NBA Draft, straight out of Picayune Memorial High School in Picayune, Mississippi despite a verbal commitment to Mississippi State University. He was then traded to the Indiana Pacers for veteran forward Antonio Davis. - John Blake
John Blake (born March 6, 1961 in Rockford, Illinois) is the defensive line coach for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels football team, a position he has held since 2007. Previously, Blake had served as the defensive line coach on Bill Callahan's staff at the University of Nebraska from 2004-2006. He also held the same position at Mississippi State University in 2003. - Babe McCarthy
James Harrison "Babe" McCarthy, sometimes called "Ol' Magnolia Mouth" or just "Magnolia Mouth" was a professional and collegiate basketball coach. McCarthy was originally from Baldwyn, Mississippi. McCarthy may best be remembered for Mississippi State's appearance in the 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament when his all-white team snuck out of town in order to face Loyola University Chicago, which had four black starters. - Darrell Dickey
Darrell Dickey was the head coach of the North Texas Mean Green football team from 1998 to 2006. After building a team with an established defense, he coached the Mean Green to 4 straight Sun Belt championships from 2001 to 2004, establishing North Texas as one of the elite programs in the Sun Belt. However, that success, was followed by failure, because in 2005 and 2006, UNT won a total of 5 games. - Bowden Wyatt
Bowden Wyatt (born October 4, 1917 in Kingston, Tennessee, died January 21, 1969 in Kingston, Tennessee) was the head football coach at the University of Tennessee from 1955-1962. He compiled a 49-29-4 record during his tenure. He served as the head coach at the University of Arkansas and the University of Wyoming prior to coming to Tennessee. He compiled a 39-17-1 record at Wyoming, and an 11-10 record at Arkansas. - Johnie Cooks
Johnie Earl Cooks (born November 23, 1958 in Leland, Mississippi), is a former American professional football player who was selected by the Baltimore Colts as the second overall pick in the 1982 NFL Draft. A 6'4", 251 lbs. linebacker from Mississippi State University, Cooks played in 10 NFL seasons from 1982-1991 for the Colts, New York Giants, and Cleveland Browns. He was a member of the Giants when they defeated the Buffalo Bills 20-19 in Super Bowl XXV. - Allyn McKeen
Allyn McKeen was a college football coach at Memphis, and Mississippi State. From 1937 to 1938, he coached at Memphis, where he compiled a 13-6 record. His 1938 team went undefeated at 10-0. From 1939 to 1948, he coached at Mississippi State, where he compiled a 65-19-3 record. - Dan McGugin
Dan McGugin (born July 29, 1879, died 1936), originally of Ringgold County, Iowa, was the head football coach for Vanderbilt University from 1904 to 1917, and from 1919 to 1934. During his tenures, he compiled a 197-55-19 career record, and had a .762 winning percentage. In his first career game, his team defeated Mississippi State 61-0. He went on to win his next two games by 60 points as well. - Linda Gialanella
Linda Gialanella is a weekend meteorologist on WFTS-TV. Linda currently is the meteorologist on the weekend 6:00 PM and 11:00 PM newscasts on WFTS. Gialanella held the Miss New Jersey 1972 title and competed in the Miss America 1973 pageant, but did not place. The pageant was won by Terry Anne Meeuwsen of Wisconsin. Gialanella worked at KYW in Philadelphia prior to joining WTSP in 1993. She anchored the noon weather segments until 1999, before joining WFTS. - Bob Tyler
Bob Tyler was a college football coach at Mississippi State from 1973 to 1978, where he posted a 21-44-2 record. His best season there came in 1974, when he went 9-3, which is no easy task in the SEC. During that season, his team beat perrenial powerhouses in Georgia, and LSU. Thinking that he established a great program, the 1975 season was a disappointment, considering the Bulldogs lost 9 out of their last 10 games. - Morris Watts
Morris Watts (born 1936 in Seneca, Missouri) is a college football coach. He was the interim head coach at Michigan State for the last three games of the 2002 season. He has also coached at Mississippi State and the University of Tulsa and for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. On January 23, 2007, he was hired as the offensive coordinator for Broken Arrow High School's football team in Oklahoma. - Heidi Jones
Heidi Jones is the weekend evening meteorologist for WABC-Channel 7's Eyewitness News in New York City. Jones came to the station in November 2005 from KTRK in Houston where she was the weekday 4 PM meteorologist. She also worked at KULR in Montana and lived in Norway. In addition to being a weathercaster, Jones is also the only member of the station that is an experienced marathon runner. - Kirk Presley
Kirk Presley was the 1993 first round draft pick of the New York Mets. Selected at # 8 in the 1993 draft, Presley had terrorized opposing batters during his campaign as a dominant pitcher and third baseman for Tupelo High School. A quarterback at Mississippi State, he was considered a tough sign but the Mets got him for $900,000. Arm injuries ended his career before he made it to the major leagues. - Morley Jennings
Morley Jennings (January 23, 1890 - May 13, 1985) was a college football coach at Ouachita Baptist, and Baylor University. From 1912 to 1925, he coached at Ouachita Baptist, and compiled a 72-17-12 record. From 1926 to 1940, he coached at Baylor, and compiled an 83-60-6 record. He played baseball, basketball, football, and track at Mississippi State. - Frank Carideo
Frank Carideo (August 4, 1908 to March 17, 1992) was an American football quarterback, as well as a college football head coach. He was considered so good, that even legendary football coach Knute Rockne said he was the best quarterback ever. From 1920-1930, Notre Dame went 19-0, with him as the starter. He was the star player on Knute Rockne's best ever team. He had a tendency to make big plays all throughout his career. He was also an assistant coach at Purdue in 1931, … - Donna Ladd
Mississippian Donna Ladd is the editor of the Jackson Free Press and a native of Neshoba County. She is a graduate of Mississippi State University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She used to write for the Village Voice and helped start the Colorado Springs Independent. Read her bio here. - Paul J. Davis
Paul J. Davis was an American college football coach at Mississippi State, North Dakota State, and Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State). From 1909 to 1914, he coached at Oklahoma A&M, and compiled a 29-16-1 record. From 1915 to 1917, he coached at North Dakota State, where he compiled a 10-7-1 record. From 1962 to 1966, he coached at Mississippi State, where he compiled a 20-28-4 record. - William Anthony Hay
William Anthony Hay Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute Browse FPRI Bulletins by William Anthony Hay William Anthony Hay , Senior Fellow, is an Assistant Professor of History at Mississippi State and associate editor of FPRI’s Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs . - Heath Morton
First off, I'm a native of Boaz, and I've always had a passion for weather for as long as I can remember. My school teachers could never keep his attention because I was always looking out the window, trying to see what was going on up in the sky. I went to Mississippi State University to pursue a degree in Meteorology. With degree in hand, I landed a job at WRBL in Columbus, Georgia as the weekend meteorologist. - Joe Dean
im joe i play football baseball n basketball i beef on the weekends or im at the cages with my main man..09. - Rob Doyle
I enjoy hockey, college football and some other things. NEW BANJO UPDATE: IT ACTUALLY MIGHT HAPPEN. - Mario Haggan
- Joshua
Go to college, hunt, fish,date,study, sleep, going to church. Anyways, I'm a Junior at Mississippi State. Born again Christian, that loves to party, but never goes overboard. Who said that Christians can not party? It a hard life but some one has to party through it. - Reginald Delk
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- Rockey Felker
Rockey Felker is living proof that persistence, loyalty and hard work pay dividends. At one time the head football coach at Mississippi State, Felker has taken a long and circuitous route back to coaching on the Bulldog sideline. He enters his first season as the running backs coach at his alma mater in 2007, and will serve the staff as recruiting coordinator.
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