Not everybody is captivated by the idea. "Let me get this straight," Colonel Reb Foundation Student Chairman Wess Helton said in a release. "The Ole Miss administration wants to change their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is the only Southeastern Conference school without an official mascot. Colonel Reb, the representation of a 19th century Southern gentleman that has been a symbol of Ole Miss for the better ...

According to long time Mississippi sports reporter Rick Cleveland, the breach between the alumni and Pete Boone dates back to the furor a few years back about the Ole Miss mascot "Colonel Reb." ...

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 ...

After all, the school is best known as Ole Miss. But every few years ... But, through it all, Colonel Reb survived. The Colonel has been the school's mascot for generations.

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 ...

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 ...