Seven years after Colonel Reb was dropped as the Ole Miss mascot and about a week after he was replaced with "Rebel Black Bear," some Rebels fans are preparing to make their feelings known about ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Students at the University of Mississippi are getting ready to vote on replacing a mascot the school dumped 7 years ago in an effort to distance itself from old South stereotypes.

OXFORD, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students will vote this month on creating a new school mascot. Colonel Reb, the university's longtime Southern gentleman character, was retired in 2003 ...

After a campus-wide vote on Tuesday, Ole Miss will get another mascot to replace Colonel Reb, the old Southern gentleman retired nearly seven years ago in an attempt to distance the school from ...

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 almost seven ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students voted Tuesday to start the process of finding a successor to the school's abandoned Colonel Reb mascot. Colonel Reb was cast off as the on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OXFORD, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students will vote this month on creating a new school mascot. Colonel Reb, the university's longtime Southern gentleman character, was retired in 2003 ...