As the Golden Eagles prepare for their September 3 season-opener against South Alabama, it’s hard to ignore what’s happening around them in the world of college football.
The University of Southern Mississippi released a revised football schedule Thursday with two new home games to replace matchups that were canceled in July.
The University of Southern Mississippi football program lost Thursday another fall football foe, while the athletic department may have lost as much as $1.45 million from its 2020-21 budget.
When sports were suddenly cancelled in March in wake of COVID-19, many athletes didn’t have much of a clue what to do next.Seventeen Golden Eagles decided to their fix in summer baseball leagues across the country, including the Southeast Collegiate League and Deep South Collegiate League...
He’s Southern Miss football’s “Mr. Versatile.”Jaylond Adams now has the chance to be considered the most versatile player in the country.The junior receiver/return-man was named to the Paul Hornung Award Watch List on Thursday, along with 49 other multi-talented college football players.
University of Southern Mississippi athletic director Jeremy McClain is seeking a replacement for Sept. 19 on the football schedule after original opponent, Jackson State University, saw its fall sports season cancelled Monday.
A few more musings from the Isle of Isolation by WDAM's Tim Doherty as he heads into Week 18 of hunkerin' down at home in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the Coronavirus hit the United States in March, gyms and campuses closed.Many athletes were left to come up with their own means of staying in shape and a couple of Golden Eagles used their creativity. USM basketball’s Tyler Stevenson and Denijay Harris turned a Columbus barn into...
Southern Miss senior wide receiver Tim Jones is one of just 55 players in the country to be named among the 2020 Biletnikoff Award Preseason Watch List.The award, given to college football’s most outstanding receiver, will be presented on March 6, 2021 in Tallahassee, Florida.
WDAM's Tim Doherty offers up a few more observations and mental meanderings while heading into Week 17 of self-isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.
With the college baseball season falling victim to the Coronavirus pandemic and Major League Baseball still three weeks away, summer ball has served as a nice snack.The Pine Belt played host to another Wednesday full of games in the Deep South Collegiate League.
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - A mainstay of Southern Miss baseball for the past five years, Matt Guidry has decided 2020 is his last in a black and gold uniform.The fifth-year senior announced via Twitter on Friday his intentions to hang up his No. 7 jersey...
In an interview with WDAM on Wednesday, McClain talked about USM’s stance on the state flag (which hasn’t been flown on campus since 2015), how university leaders and student-athletes can influence Mississippi lawmakers and what challenges the athletic department faces this fall amid COVID-19.
WDAM's Tim Doherty offers a few thoughts and poses a few questions as he separates himself from the crush, hunkering down on the Isle of Isolation during the days of coronavirus.
If you build the league, they will come.They came Laurel in droves on Saturday for Opening Day of the Deep South Collegiate League.It’s become a summer sanctuary for many local baseball players who were cheated out of a 2020 season.
During a time in which protests and movements are an everyday affair in the United States, Southern Miss came together in its own way on Thursday afternoon.A large group of USM football players, student-athletes and coaches took a walk down Hardy Street in a demonstration of unity.
University of Southern Mississippi high jump All-American Eric Richards not only had his final year cut short, but his Olympic aspirations delayed until 2021. But Richards intends to return to Hattiesburg for a "second" senior season.
University of Southern Mississippi men's basketball coach Jay Ladner (left) said he understood the thought process behind Conference USA trimming its men's and women's basketball tournaments to eight teams from 12 teams.
Karley Nichols has worn many different hats – or should we say gloves – in her 17 years of playing softball.From the pitcher’s mound to the outfield to first base – the sport is truly a love she has nurtured from Brandon to Southern Miss.
The University of Southern Mississippi's 2004 run in the Conference USA baseball tournament capped one of the most foundational seasons in program history.
A typical Biloxi weekend in late-march features the echoes of baseballs being hit and fans cheering.Instead of hosting the Conference USA baseball tournament for the fourth straight season, MGM Park sits silent.Not only did Southern Miss hope to defend its C-USA crown this Memorial Day Weekend...
The University of Southern Mississippi's 15 sports programs received a passing grade from the National Collegiate Athletic Association in last week's Academic Progress Report.
It was one of the more talented senior classes Chris McCardle had coached.The 2020 Oak Grove baseball team was on track for a terrific year before it ended at 10-2. The one silver-lining in the Warriors’ abbreviated season is all seven seniors have bright futures ahead...
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre is repaying $1.1 million in welfare money that he received for multiple speeches where he did not show up, the Mississippi state auditor said Wednesday.
December 13, 1986 was nothing more than a normal day on the campus of Southern Miss.Perhaps, too normal for USM’s basketball team which was preparing to host Central Arkansas of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. The Golden Eagles, at the infancy of their 1987 NIT...
Slade Wilks slaps some baseballs on a mild spring afternoon in Columbia.Columbia Academy’s a modest ballpark compared to the major league stadiums he visited last summer.
The University of Southern Mississippi men's basketball team added its third junior college player, adding swingman DeAndre Pinckney from Broward College in Miami Gardens, Fla.
The University of Southern Mississippi men's basketball program added its sixth signee of the spring period, adding 6-foot-7 guard Justin Johnson from South Georgia Technical College.
The rounds drifted by but Quez Watkins never batted an eye.When the Philadelphia Eagles called on Saturday, Watkins knew then the wait was worthy.Southern Miss’ stalwart receiver was selected as the 200th overall pick in the sixth round of the National Football League Draft.“
They were teammates at St. Aloysius High School and again at Southern Miss.De’Michael Harris and Drake Dorbeck take the same route to the National Football League.
Folks around the National Football League certainly knew about Quez Watkins prior to February’s NFL Combine.After all, he was Conference USA’s leading receiver in 2019 with 1,178 yards and six touchdowns.
Jay Ladner walked away from his first season as the USM men’s basketball coach determined after a 9-22 campaign.He leaves the first day of the 2020 signing period feeling inspired.
Cameron Tom gets to keep that wardrobe full of black and gold for a little while longer.The Southern Miss grad re-signed with the New Orleans Saints on Wednesday, entering his fourth season in the National Football League with the organization that signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2017.
The University of Southern Mississippi is having to find a way to fill a shortfall in the "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in its athletic budget caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Kirk McCarty and Taylor Braley have been playing baseball pretty much their entire lives – from Oak Grove to Southern Miss and now in the minor leagues.It’s what has made the past two weeks feel so strange.
The NCAA voted Monday to extend the eligibility of student-athletes participating in spring sports who saw their seasons cancelled by the coronavirus pandemic.
It’s just over 80 degrees and sunny on Friday afternoon in Hattiesburg - a near perfect day to play some golf.Of course, Southern Miss was supposed to be headed up to Wilmington, North Carolina this weekend for the Seahawk Intercollegiate. Instead, Charles-Éric Bélanger is left to practice...
The campus of Southern Miss is quiet on the 26th of March, 2020.Probably quiet enough to hear a basketball bouncing in Reed-Green Coliseum if you were standing at home plate of Pete Taylor Park.It was quite a different scene on March 13, 1987 as the Golden Eagles prepared to host Ole Miss...
University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Director Jeremy McClain discussed the plans for athletics after Conference USA suspended all spring sporting events to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Just about every corner of the world closed its gates on athletics this week with the threat of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) continuing to brew.One corner of Hattiesburg – Pete Taylor Park – joined in. You might not hear many chirps from the “Right Field Roost” in the next few weeks.
University of Southern Mississippi athletic director Jeremy McClain and his fellow Conference USA athletic administrators have found themselves in a whirlwind the past few days thanks to the looming shadow of the COVID-19 virus.
Marshall erased a 12-point third quarter deficit to stun the Lady Eagles 71-67 in the opening round of the Conference USA Women’s Championships on Wednesday.
The league issued the statement Thursday following their announcement of cancelling the 2020 Air Force Reserve Basketball Championships in Frisco, TX an hour before.
In the weekend’s three-game series with Little Rock, the Golden Eagles scored nine of their 16 runs in the sixth inning.Southern Miss decided to wait an extra inning on Tuesday to do most of its damage.
Southern Miss allowed Saturday’s contest to hang in the balance for most of the afternoon until a three-run sixth inning lifted the Golden Eagles to their third weekend series win of the season.Gabe Montenegro’s two-run single broke a 1-1 tie as USM defeated Little Rock 4-1.
The first basketball season under Jay Ladner brought stints of excitement back to a program desperate for a revival.However, any momentum the Golden Eagles had throughout the 2019-20 season came to a slow roll in USM’s final four games.
On a Saturday Southern Miss managed just seven hits, Hannah Borden’s heroics proved that more valuable.The true freshman carried the Lady Eagles to series-clinching 4-3 win over Jacksonville State with an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning.
The last time Southern Miss and Little Rock met on a baseball diamond – March 5, 1997 – Scott Berry was actually coaching Chris Curry at Meridian Community College.The two shared the same field again Friday, Berry in his 11th season as USM’s skipper and Curry in year six leading the Trojans.
