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 ...

Not exactly, but if the Colonel Reb Political Action Committee has its way, Colonel Reb may be on the 2012 presidential election ballot. The PAC announced in a press release Tuesday that Mississippi ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An effort to enshrine an Old South university mascot into the Mississippi Constitution is a lost cause — at least for now. Arthur Randallson of Southaven directs the Colonel Reb ...

It's been six years since Ole Miss cut ties with its former mascot, the mustachioed plantation owner Colonel Reb. The decision is still divisive -- the colonel and his bolo tie are raucously welcomed ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Colonel Reb shall not rise again. That much is certain. The University of Mississippi dumped the mascot — a caricature of a white plantation owner — in a 2003 effort to distance ...

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 ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...