By BRAD LOGAN Contributing Writer April 13, 2013 – He disagreed with the call at second base. So much so, then assistant coach and now head coach Mike Kinnison elected to have a face-to-face conversation with the infield umpire that made the call. He lost the argument that day in Montgomery, AL, where the Delta State University Statesmen fell to St. Joseph's (MO) in the Division II College World Series. Kinnison was no stranger to the Mecca of college baseball. He had been there as a player ...  Read more »

BY JON WIENER Contributing Writer MARCH 28, 2013 – There are at least a half-dozen reasons why Jackson State hired Wayne Brent as its new basketball coach on Monday. Disciplinarian. College experience. Wins everywhere he goes. He also sports the meanest three-piece suits this side of John Travolta. But there’s no mistaking Brent’s ultimate drawing power for Jackson’s university: his godfather-like status in Jackson Public School (JPS) high school basketball, where he won a ...  Read more »