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 ...

University of Mississippi students voted Tuesday for the school to pursue a new mascot to replace Colonel Reb, the goateed Southern gent banished from the sidelines nearly seven years ago as the ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook After seven years without a mascot, Mississippi University announced on Oct. 14 a replacement of ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Step aside Colonel Reb. The next University of Mississippi mascot could well be a fierce black bear, a toothy land shark or a character in a full-body muscle-suit. But so far, the ...