On Sunday, the New York Times reported on the "Colonel Reb" mascot controversy at the University of Mississippi, a.k.a. "Ole Miss." Colonel Reb — a caricature of a white antebellum Southern plantation ...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - The new mascot of the University of Mississippi Rebels will be a black bear, officially replacing the goateed Southern gentleman "Colonel Reb" who was banished from the sidelines ...

TUPELO - Members of the Colonel Reb Foundation were in Tupelo on Thursday afternoon as part of a campaign to persuade the University of Mississippi to return to its former mascot. With the ...

Students and alumni of that venerable Southern institution Ole Miss are currently reeling at the news that the university has decided to replace its controversial mascot, Colonel Reb, a white-bearded ...

After many years of complaints about the racial insensitivity of having a man dressed as a Confederate soldier as the symbol of a university where 14 percent of students are black, Ole Miss is pulling ...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will sideline its Colonel Rebel mascot this football season, taking another step to distance itself from the South's Confederate past. Ole Miss officials have said ...

It was just a few days ago when Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon took a swing at one of the costumed contestants in the bottom of the seventh Sausage Race at a game in Milwaukee. Hot ...

In light of the vigorous discussion here the other day about the continuation of Rebel flag-waving, a Rebel mascot and other Old South trappings at Highland High School in North Arkansas, you might be ...

Friends, Mississippians and football fans, we come neither to bury Colonel Rebel nor to praise him. We're simply helping an unemployed American get a job. This effort shouldn't be necessary. After his ...

OXFORD, Miss. — The new mascot of the University of Mississippi Rebels will be a black bear, officially replacing the goateed Southern gentleman “Colonel Reb” who was banished from the sidelines ...

A certain reverence for the past might seem like a given at the University of Mississippi. After all, the school is best known as Ole Miss. But every few years, it seems, something happens to distance ...