In seven short years, Ole Miss went from Colonel Reb and Dixie, ... Who would have ever thought 15 years ago that Ole Miss would have banned the Rebel flag, the band playing Dixie, ...

In 1997, Ole Miss ended the waving of Confederate flags at sporting events. Last year, the band stopped playing the fight song, "From Dixie With Love," to discourage the fan chant, "The South will ...

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 ...

Colonel Reb has been kicked to the curb by a bear, with the announcement today that The Rebel Mascot Selection Committee has recommended the Rebel Black Bear as the new on-field mascot for the Ole ...

University of Mississippi mascot Colonel Reb roamed the stands at last year's Egg Bowl against Mississippi State. The mascot was based on white plantation owners. JACKSON, Miss. - Colonel Reb ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- 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 ...

Like the Rebel flag and other images that evoke the Confederacy and to many people, ... hired a firm to study Colonel Reb and other symbols at Ole Miss. Later that year, the university unveiled two ...

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 the school ...

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 ...

Colonel Reb has been kicked to the curb by a bear, with the announcement today that The Rebel Mascot Selection Committee has recommended the Rebel Black Bear as the new on-field mascot for the Ole ...

Ole Miss will remain the Rebels, but Colonel Reb won't be back on the field. The university has taken other steps in recent years to throw off what many perceive as lingering reminders of a ...