The Mississippi State Bulldogs are playing their first game since the sudden death of head coach Mike Leach. Leach was 61 when he died in December. He had just wrapped up his third season coaching the program. University President Mark Keenum and athletic director Zac Selmon presented Leach’s family with
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Mississippi State head coach Zach Arnett relying on lessons learned from Mike Leach in first season on job
Zach Arnett is not only the lone rookie among the Southeastern Conference’s 14 coaches, he’s also the youngest at 36 along with being the first of Hispanic descent in the league’s history. He’s been around the league long enough to know Tuesday that he broke the standard set by his
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey ditches formal attire during Media Days in honor of Mike Leach
Commissioner Greg Sankey seemed to take a casual approach to this year’s SEC Football Kickoff Media Days, but the lack of formal attire during Monday’s opening day wasn’t just a personal choice. Sankey revealed that the decision not to wear a tie was meant as a way to honor former
Book Review: ‘The Elissas,’ by Samantha Leach
THE ELISSAS: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia, by Samantha Leach Like the Furies and the Fates of Greek mythology, the subjects of Samantha Leach’s “The Elissas” are troubled and troubling young women enacting a drama that feels both ancient and inevitable. If the addiction narrative
First-year Mississippi State head coach won’t ‘duplicate’ Mike Leach: ‘There’s no chance in hell’
The Mississippi State Bulldogs will head into the 2023 college football season with a first-year head coach after the tragic passing of Mike Leach in December. Zach Arnett, Leach’s defensive coordinator from 2020-2022, will begin his first full season as head coach in Starkville after agreeing to a four-year contract
Buckie Leach, Coach of U.S. Gold Medal Fencer in Tokyo, Dies at 62
Buckie Leach, an elite fencing coach who guided the first American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in the foil competition, a gold at the Summer Games in Tokyo last month, died on Aug. 14 in a motorcycle accident in Pennsylvania. He was 62. Leach was riding alone on