After escaping with a season-opening win on Sunday night, the No. 9 Ole Miss Rebels (1-0) host the Charlotte 49ers (0-1) in their home opener on Saturday night at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
Sep 6, 2026; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Ole Miss Rebels tight end Caleb Odom (4) celebrates his touchdown against the Louisville Cardinals during the second half at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Steve Roberts-Imagn Images
When: Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026
Time: 7:45 PM ET
TV Channel: ESPN2

#rebels #stadium #night #nashville

While it was the Raiders offense that needed the most work done on it this offseason, the defense was not exactly all set either. Let's put some rankings together to see the strongest and weakest positions.
Starters: Maxx Crosby Kwity Paye
Depth: Malcolm Koonce, Patrick Johnson
Question marks: Will Crosby still be here after the trade deadline? The Raiders traded him this offseason only to have their deal with the Ravens fall through. The Cowboys were hot after Crosby before the Raiders agreed to terms with the Ravens. If the Raiders think it could stil be in their long term best interest, they would still be listening.
Starters: Tonka Hemingway, Adam Butler

#paye #depth

Sean McDonough has called college football in some capacity since George H.W. Bush was in office. And after spending nearly four decades inside every major cathedral the country has to offer, he's come to the conclusion that Ole Miss is home to the worst broadcast booth in the sport.
"The booth is tiny," McDonough said in a recent appearance on The Brandon Walker College Football Show, explaining that Vaught-Hemingway Stadium's press box used to have more room before the athletic department reclaimed seats from it. "To the point where our stats guy has to be behind us, because it's not wide enough for myself, the spotter, Greg McElroy, Zach, our spotter, and me. There can't be a fourth person, because it's not wide enough."
Cramped quarters aren't even the worst of it. McDonough said the booth's angle relative to the field turns Ole Miss's frequent noon ET kickoffs into their own kind of miserable.
"You're a little to the left of the 50-yard line, but we have a lot of those noon Eastern starts there, which are 11 Central, and the sun is hitting you right in the face," he said. "I don't like to wear sunglasses on TV, because you look like you're doing a Hollywood shot, but you almost have to there when the game starts, because you're just getting blasted in the face. It's just a really uncomfortable place to do a game."
McDonough is entering his fourth straight season alongside McElroy on ESPN's No. 2 college football broadcast team,
with Katie George stepping in as their new sideline reporter in place of Molly McGrath, who moved to an NFL-focused role. That booth was voted No. 1 in Awful Announcing's 2025 college football announcer rankings, drawing the highest raw number of A grades of any crew in the poll, and McDonough was individually named the National Sportscaster of the Year.

#broadcast

The Las Vegas Raiders begin the 2026 preseason Thursday when they host the Arizona Cardinals with a 5 p.m. PT kickoff.
Let's look at Raiders' players we're excited to see play in the game, presented in alphabetical order:
Jack Bech:
The second-year wide receiver needs to take a big step forward this year after a mostly unproductive rookies season. He has been fairly quiet this training camp. The Raiders need to see progress from Bech and it begins now.
Tonka Hemingway:

#vegas #jack #tonka #hemingway

July 21 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer.
They include:
-- Musician Chauncey Olcott in 1858
-- U.S. first lady Frances Cleveland in 1864
-- Writer Ernest Hemingway in 1899

A star becoming a black hole happens in the same way as Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt: “First it happens gradually, then all at once.” The gradual part of the process can take a lot longer than the time it takes to drain a bank account—billions of years in some cases. That’s why astronomers were puzzled when they found evidence that supermassive black holes existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
In order for the timeframe to make sense, the stars that collapsed to form these black holes would’ve had to have been gargantuan—1,000 to 10,000 more massive than our sun.